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The House heads out for summer recess today. The Senate will follow next week. Do you think the legislature should stay and get health care reform done? Or do they need to go home, ta... (article)
Headlines; Beer and Healthcare (article)
Last Call: Reactions to the Beer Summit (episode)
As President Obama and Vice President Biden welcomed Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr and police Sergeant James Crowley to the beer summit, people were joining them in spirit at b...
For The Takeaway's weekly wrap-up we talk about two stories that dominated the headlines all week—health care and beer. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden sat down wi...
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office reported yesterday that Wall Street bonuses are back. This is just in time for the vote in the House today on the Executive Compensatio...
The Takeaway looks at where the economy is now, and where it's headed. We're talking to Lakshman Achuthan, the Managing Director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute. He talks abo...
A British man facing charges of hacking into top secret Pentagon and NASA computers in the U.S. has lost a long legal battle against his extradition from the U.K. to the U.S. American...
A Federal judge has ordered the release of what is believed to be Guantanamo Bay’s youngest detainee. Mohammed Jawad has been detained there since 2002 when he was arrested in Kabul, ...
It's Friday movie review day at The Takeaway, and we cover Judd Apatow’s latest film, "Funny People," starring Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill. Joining The Takeaway to talk ab...
Big Papi may have had help getting big. The New York Times reported yesterday that the Boston Red Sox’s David Ortiz and former Red Sox player Manny Ramirez are on a list of a hundred ...
President Obama, Sgt. James Crowley and Henry Louis Gates Jr. met for a long anticipated beer last night outside the Oval Office. The Takeaway covered reactions to this from bar-goers...
Last week we reported on the Obama administration's “cash for clunkers” program—where you can trade in your old beater for a credit on a new, more fuel efficient car. The rewards pro...
July has been the deadliest month in the war in Afghanistan. Casualties have spiked since the U.S. launched a major offensive into Afghanistan's Helmand province. The U.S. has lost 39...
To assess the state of the war in Afghanistan, The Takeaway talks with Stephen Biddle, a counterinsurgency expert and senior fellow for defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relati...
Seattle, known for its London-like weather, rainy and cool, has been hit with a record breaking heat wave. Many people not accustomed or prepared for temperatures like this are trying...
Joining The Takeaway to discuss the summer recess—and all things political—is Bill Maher, host of the indispensable political gabfest, HBO's "Real Time." He talks about the president'...
The GDP shrank one percent in the second quarter. To tell us what that means for the economy and jobs, The Takeaway is joined by Dan Gross, columnist for Newsweek and Slate.com.
A report from the New York Attorney General’s Office says top-dog bankers are rolling in huge bonuses, and the House of Representatives is set to vote on a pay-reform bill today that ...
Cooking shows are becoming more and more popular. But while people love to watch shows like "Top Chef," they don't actually go into their own kitchens to chop, boil or bake. Food writ...
Report from Helmand Province | Obama's Beer Meeting | Wireless Baltimore | Health Care Update | NYPD on Boyd | H1N1 and Pregnancy (article)
"Skip" Gates and Officer Crowley have been summoned to the White House. Is a productive discussion possible – even over a beer – when sitting under the media spotlight and before the... (article)
Tonight President Obama, "Skip" Gates and Jim Crowley get together to drink a beer and discuss their problems. Will this help solve the controversy of Gates' arrest? When have you sol... (article)
Headlines; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (article)
The Gates Controversy: A Question of Race -- and Beer (episode)
The nation is still buzzing over the arrest of eminent African American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in Cambridge, Mass., two weeks ago. Today the president will sit down...
The city of Baltimore, Maryland, is quietly working on a potentially groundbreaking technological project: wireless. WiMax, the super high speed wireless internet network spreading th...
One of the most expensive health-care markets in the country is Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in McAllen, Texas. Eighty-two percent of the hospital is owned by doctors who also prac...
As federal agents sift through the case against the suspected jihadists in Willow Spring, North Carolina, it became clear that one man was missing from the conspiracy. Now federal aut...
A Centers for Disease Control advisory panel has recommended that pregnant women get top priority for an H1N1 vaccine when it is expected to become available this fall. How is this re...
A type of body fat that actually burns calories sounds counter-intuitive, but that’s what brown fat does. Babies and animals have it, and earlier this year we learned that adults have...
We check in with The Takeaway's Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich to get the latest from Capitol Hill. The Senate has the outline of a deal which got the Congressional Budget Off...
The Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Henry Waxman, who drafted the health care bill, and Blue Dog Democrats, the fiscally conservative wing of the Democratic party...
Over 4,000 U.S. Marines launched a major offensive against the Taliban in Southern Afghanistan. They face a tough battle and not just against their military foes but against the weath...
Just when you thought things couldn't get worse in Detroit...they do. The unemployment rate in the Motor City jumped up almost 3 points last month. It now stands at a staggering 17 pe...
As the president prepares to host a kegger to smooth the feathers ruffled over the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr, the nation's beer drinkers are paying close attent...
It's been 40 days since the world was horrified by the video of a woman, Neda, being shot and killed during the protests surrounding the presidential elections in Iran. Under Iranian ...
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