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Manning Verdict & First Amendment Rights | Latest High-Tech Tools in Cars are Distracting for Drivers | Manning Verdict's Impact on Snowden & Future Whitsleblowers | We Refugees: Grow... (episode)
Army Private Bradley Manning was acquitted on charges of aiding the enemy by a military judge at Fort Meade, Maryland on Tuesday. Former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller ex...
Car manufacturers are increasingly offering more and more ways for drivers to stay connected online even while driving. But could cars with cutting edge voice-activated hands-free sys...
All week this week, The Takeaway journeys into the complex realities faced by refugees from around the world. Farhiya Shazz Hussein is 22-years-old. In 1992, she left Somalia with her...
Despite receiving death threats, being beaten by insurgents, and even being arrested, Mustafa Haji Abdinur remains on the ground in Mogadishu to report on the continuing crisis and vi...
The United States' Gross Domestic Product will grow 3 percent today—but not because of increased productivity. Government statisticians will be applying new GDP rules retroactively, f...
Yesterday, a military judge found Pvt. Bradley Manning not guilty of “aiding the enemy” for releasing hundreds of thousands of classified military documents to WikiLeaks. Amidst the m...
A Renewed Push for Middle East Peace | GOP Divided Over Obamacare | Amazon to Add 7000 Jobs | Archaeological Dig Uncovers Nation's Oldest Black Community | Taking a Trip to Saturn, at... (episode)
Army Private Bradley Manning, who leaked thousands of classified Iraq and Afghanistan war logs to WikiLeaks, was found not guilty of aiding the enemy on Tuesday, the largest charge he...
Congress is at war again, but this time the fighting isn't between Republicans and Democrats. With just a few days to go until August recess, the GOP is deeply divided over whether to...
A new scientific paper suggests that some early pre-cancer diagnoses shouldn’t be called, or even treated, as cancer. Dr. Ian Thompson is the Director of the Cancer Therapy and Resear...
Ambassador Dennis Ross served as a Middle East peace negotiator in the George H.W. Bush and Clinton Administrations. He is currently counselor at the Washington Institute for Near Eas...
A team of scholars from the University of Maryland and Morgan State University have discovered what appears to be the oldest, independent community of free blacks in the U.S. Mark Leo...
We journey into the lives of refugees from around the world, examining the short and long term consequences associated with having been forcibly displaced. We start off in Jordan, whe...
Comic book heroes travel at the speed of light, leaving the rest of us in the dust...until now. If Harold G. White gets his way, we’ll all eventually be traveling at the speed of ligh...
Amazon announced it will be adding 7,000 jobs nationwide: 5,000 warehouse positions and 2,000 in customer service. We take a closer look at Amazon—the world's largest online retailer—...
Is The Catholic Church Changing Its Stance on Homosexuals? | As Violence Breaks, Muslim Brotherhood's Political Future in Doubt | Tax Reform Proposals to be Kept Secret for 50 Years |... (episode)
Could the Catholic Church be softening its stance on homosexuals? On the way back to Rome from his a seven-day visit to Brazil, Pope Francis singled that changes could be coming to Ca...
The path to Middle East peace remains uncertain, with bloody protests in the streets of Egypt. Over the weekend, Egyptian authorities opened fire on Muslim Brotherhood protesters in C...
The assisted living industry is a multibillion-dollar business. An investigation of the largest assisted living company in the country by FRONTLINE and ProPublica has found legal viol...
Congress is undertaking broad reform of the tax code—potentially to the tune of trillions of dollars. As Senators prepare their input for tax code reform, they are promised complete c...
Imagine there was a voice that could guide you though everyday activities. While this is still an impossibility, Jack Fox and Carolyn Hopkins—the voices of the subway, airport system,...
Even though we remember the March on Washington for the soaring poetry of Martin Luther King's dream of racial justice, it is economic justice that remains the elusive prize. William ...
In this week's Movie Date podcast, Rafer and Kristen tackle a strange, intense, and in some cases disappointing variety of movies, from the teen sex comedy, "The To-Do List" to the la... (article)
Mass Protests Expected in Egypt Today | Caring for an Injured Veteran | New Movie Releases | Oscar Grant's Uncle Bobby on "Fruitvale Station" | As Bernanke Steps Down, Can Janet Yelle... (episode)
About 95 percent of troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan survive. But upon returning home, many have grappled with an entirely new reality that can include a traumatic brain injury,...
The Justice Department called Wall Street hedge fund SAC Capital yesterday "a magnet of market cheaters" in a broad indictment of the firm, which is run by billionaire Steven A. Cohen...
This week, movie theaters have offerings for everyone from comic book fans to teen movie lovers or Bernie Madoff haters. Bringing us the reviews of these films is our Movie Date team—...
On January 1, 2009, Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old unarmed black man, was shot and killed by a white transit police officer while heading home from New Year's festivities. Cephus Johnson,...
The military deposed democratically-elected President Mohamed Morsi earlier this month. He remains under house arrest. Protesters, both for and against the military, have been filling...
Ben Bernanke will be stepping down from the position of Federal Reserve Chairman at the end of his term in January. Janet Yellen is the current Federal Reserve Vice Chairman—despite b...
Now that there are more than 65.7 million Americans—almost 30 percent of the adult population—acting as caregivers to a loved one, those that take on this important position know that...
Congress Rejects Effort to Curb NSA Surveillance | Restoring Faith in the Economy | Former FISA Judge Proposes a Better Surveillance Court | The Heart Over the Head: A Revolutionary A... (episode)
On Wednesday, Congress took up a controversial amendment designed to curb the NSA’s powers, but the bill was defeated in the House of Representatives in a vote of 205-to-217. The legi...
The revelations of NSA mass surveillance projects by Edward Snowden last month, which were authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, raised the question of legitimacy...
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin reported that profits have gone up 10 percent this year, but some defense department contracted workers are still on furloughs due to the sequester,...
Yesterday, President Obama gave his first address, in what will be a series of major speeches centering on the economy. Takeaway Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich translates the ...
Senator Mitch McConnell has held one of Kentucky's U.S. Senate seats since 1985. He is one of the most senior members of the Senate, and has been minority leader since January 2007. T...
Over the decades, those who treat people with dementia have tried a number of methods of care to deal with symptoms, from physical exercise to drug therapy. Tena Alonzo, director of e...
Throughout the week, we're talking with caregivers—people who give much of their time and energy to caring for children, parents and other loved ones who need regular and ongoing assi...
21st Century Cold War? Tensions Rise Between U.S. and Russia, China | Braving Violence for the Sake of Journalism in Somalia | Internet Policing? Britain Moves to Block Porn Websites ... (episode)
The Snowden case has caused friction between the United States and Russia and China, as the U.S. believes China may have played a role in Hong Kong's decision to allow Snowden to leav...
British Prime Minister David Cameron has introduced a plan that would block pornography on most computers, smartphones and tablets. Does the effort contribute to Internet policing or ...
Because of Congressional inaction, student loan interest rates doubled in July, from 3.4 to 6.8 percent. A deal made last week would drop student loan rates to 3.85 percent for underg...
Though outed President Mohamed Morsi is out of sight, army Chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is urging people to take to the streets on Friday to support the interim government and to restor...
<p>When the care a patient requires becomes too great, families often call in help from nurses and home health aides who become a in integral part of the support system. </p>
As part of caregivers series this week, we asked you to share your stories of caregiving with us. Frank Medina cares for his mother-in-law, who suffered a stroke in 2006. Medina and h...
Detroit Bankruptcy Puts Pensions on the Chopping Block | Pentagon Presents Options for U.S. Action in Syria | Media Watch: Why The Obsession With the Royal Baby? | The Challenges of C... (episode)
Detroit pensions may now be on the chopping block. Money that was supposed to materialize disappeared into thin air—in the lead up to Detroit’s filing for bankruptcy last week, a big ...
Think you've heard it all there about big banks manipulating consumers and markets to make a buck? You might be surprised. Everyday in Detroit, tons of aluminum is moved from one war...
The Pentagon has plan for military options for U.S. involvement in Syria could cost well over $1 billion per month. And officials say that once we're involved, it won't be a short vis...
Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, delivered a son. The baby boy is the third in line for the throne, and this is the first heir the royal family has had in this century—and in...
It was announced yesterday that Netflix has not only become the best performing U.S. stock in the Standard and Poor’s Index for 2013, it's also the second most expensive. Weighing in ...
The Netflix original series, “Orange is the New Black” is the first scripted series to feature a trans actor, playing a trans character in a leading role. Laverne Cox plays that chara...
All this week we're talking to some of the 66 million caregivers in America who work day and night to care for someone they love, a process that can sometimes be overwhelming. But for...
Caregivers to a Generation of Autistic Children Coming of Age | Palm Oil & Human Rights Abuses | Data on America's Care Providers | In Wake of Zimmerman Verdict, Stevie Wonder Boycott... (episode)
Caregiving is a vast responsibility that a growing proportion of the population is faced with. As part of our week-long series on the lives of American caregivers, The Takeaway analyz...
More than 65.7 million Americans—almost 30 percent of the adult population—are caregivers. All this week, The Takeaway peeks into the lives of these caregivers to learn what it is lik...
It's been more than a month since revelations about the NSA's mass surveillance programs surfaced and it seems that states are pushing back. Last week, the New Jersey Supreme Court ru...
A little over a week ago, in the aftermath of the George Zimmerman verdict, Stevie Wonder announced that he’d be boycotting the state of Florida and all other states with Stand Your G...
A new study of the U.S. workforce says that where you are headed economically and geographically depends to a surprising degree on where you're coming from. “Where you grow up matters...
Palm oil is an increasingly ubiquitous, yet nearly invisible, substance. Consumers can find it in everything from Crest toothpaste and Gillette shaving cream to Nestle and Kraft food ...
On Friday, President Obama addressed the nation, the verdict and commented on the racial climate in the country. Was the President a bridge builder? How has his identity and his place...
In this week's supersized Movie Date podcast, Rafer and Kristen face what might be the worst opening weekend all summer. On the chopping block: "The Conjuring," "RIPD," "Red 2," and "... (article)