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The Takeaway for Wednesday, September 30, 2009 (Final Edition) (article)
Toyota has issued its largest vehicle recall ever made in the United States. The company issued the recall when it discovered that floor mats in certain models can cause gas pedals to... (article)
<p>Headlines; Texting While Driving</p> (article)
Washington Convenes 'Distracted Driving' Summit (episode)
Call it Driving While Distracted, or DWD. It may not sound as serious as DWI, but driving and texting or twittering or "just" checking your email is a serious enough issue that dozens...
Yesterday, both Sen. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) offered amendments that would have reintroduced a government-run insurance option to the health care reform bill u...
A year after short selling stocks was decried for adding fuel to the fire of the financial meltdown, the Securities and Exchange Commission is considering cracking down on the practic...
<p>We revisit your responses to our recent questions: the housing situation in your block, and what you think the biggest "clear and present danger" is to America.</p>
An 8.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the shore of Samoa and American Samoa early yesterday. The huge earthquake launched a tsunami that has devastated the Samoa islands and killed a...
[Trailer for "The Founding of the Republic"] China is celebrating the big 6-0, and what better way to celebrate six decades of Communist rule than with a major motion...
As the weather starts to cool, but summer's harvest is still available, New York Times food writer Melissa Clark has been inspired to bake. But she hasn't been baking sweets — there ...
Trust the doctor, we’re often told. But in the passage of a health care reform bill, it's the lawmakers we have to rely on. We’ve found three members of Congress who are also medica...
When GM and Chrysler declared bankruptcy, the court allowed them to prematurely end contracts with car dealers across the nation. Today, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is m...
Key economic indicators are still giving mixed signals about the recovery of the nation's economy. Housing numbers were up, but now they are down; consumer confidence was rising, and ...
In the wild world of baseball, the Detroit Tigers and the Minnesota Twins are in an intense race to win Major League Baseball's A.L. Central division. The Takeaway's sports contributo...
The man in charge of the military mission in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has said that without more troops, the U.S. mission "will likely result in failure." While no offici...
A Los Angeles–based clothing company is laying off 1,800 immigrant employees in the coming weeks at the behest of the Obama administration. And it's not just any company — it's Americ...
Neil Sheehan, the Pulitzer prize–winning author of "A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam," one of the best documentations of the Vietnam War, has written a new ...
The Takeaway for Tuesday, September 29, 2009 (Final Edition) (article)
Headlines; Iran (article)
Iran's War Games: Iranian-Americans Respond (episode)
Iran continued its recent run of provocative acts by testing its longest-range missiles on Monday. That came only one day after it tested short-range missiles, and a few days after it...
<p>Our Washington correspondent, <strong>Todd Zwillich</strong>,<strong> </strong>joins us to do some fact checking on health care reform and Medicare-cost claims from both sides of the Congressional aisle.</p>
When the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) meets later today, it will have to address a key question raised by the tide of bank failures: Will the the government agency run...
The Dallas Cowboys earned a sloppy but much needed victory in prime time last night. And after a slow starting season, the win came at a critical time for quarterback Tony Romo. We ge...
The floodwaters in the Philippines are starting to recede now that Typhoon Ketsana (locally known as Typhoon Ondoy) has passed through, but the situation in Manila and the surrounding...
As more news stories get reported and updated multiple times a day online, they've made once-daily newspaper deadlines seem quaint. Book publishing, however, is still back in the Dark...
American culture has always valued high worker productivity; it’s hard to encourage people in the U.S. to take time off from work. But one company thinks it can make more money by for...
In the Senate Finance Committee today, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) are introducing an amendment to add the hotly-contested public option to the Fi...
This week, possibly even as early as today, the U.S. Treasury Department will unveil a new $35 billion mortgage relief plan to stabilize the housing market. The money will go to state...
It's a big week for baseball. The Yankees have clinched their spot in the American League East, but it's a tight race between the Minnesota Twins and the Detroit Tigers in the A.L. Ce...
This Takeout comes from our listeners: We spoke yesterday about daughters overcoming difficult relationships with their mothers, and vice-versa. After we got off the air, 75-year-old ...
The U.S. and its allies are united in their public concerns about Iran's secret nuclear ambitions. But The New York Times reports that U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies disagree...
The WNBA finals begin tonight in Arizona as the fast-paced Phoenix Mercury tries to wear down the tough defense of the Indiana Fever. ESPN.com reporter Mechelle Voepel joins us from P...
A few decades before doctors understood basic germ theory, a curious process played out in 19th-century Austria. At the time, doctors were trying to find the cause of a deadly fever s...
Last Friday, when we talked about young people coming out at younger ages, we got phone calls, emails and comments on our website, including one from Susan in Oklahoma who told her 14...
Two of the Senate Finance Committee's more liberal Democrats have submitted amendments to add a public option to the committee's health care reform plan; it comes on the heels of a Co...
The Takeaway for Monday, September 28, 2009 (Final Edition) (article)
The Takeaway for Monday, September 28, 2009 (Early Edition) (article)
This Week's Agenda With Marcus Mabry and Jonathan Marcus (episode)
For this week's agenda we speak to Marcus Mabry, international business editor for The New York Times; and from London, Jonathan Marcus, diplomatic correspondent for the BBC World Ser...
Iran test-fired missiles over the weekend and revealed a previously undisclosed nuclear facility. We check in with Julie Mason, White House correspondent with The Washington Examiner,...
When unemployment rises, so do mortgage defaults. The Obama administration's plan to help borrowers modify mortgages has had mixed results, and lawmakers are calling for a second look...
Our sports contributor, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, tells us about some big upsets in college football and, in the NFL, the Detroit Lions ending their nightmare string of 19 straight losses....
President Obama has repeatedly tried to explain the mission in Afghanistan, eight years after the September 11th attacks, as an attempt to destroy al-Qaida as a threat. Osama bin Lade...
After four straight months of rising sales on the housing front — good news for the economy — those numbers slipped downward for August. From an economist's point of view, the economy...
As a new generation of young mothers try to accomplish it all, having good careers and raising families, they also struggle to find common ground with their own mothers. We speak to t...
Launched missiles and secret nuclear facilities: Iran's had a busy few days. Now, they are headed into a week of negotiations with world leaders to explain themselves. Most notably, t...
<p>This week the Senate Finance Committee meets (again) on the bill for health care reform. Washington Examiner White House correspondent <strong>Julie Mason</strong> updates us on what remains on their agenda.</p>
The New York Times finance reporter Louise Story spent the weekend combing through Congressman Barney Frank’s (D-Mass.) 291-page plan for a new Consumer Protection Agency, and joins u...
His work spanned the world of conservative politics, journalism and the use of words. William Safire, former columnist for The New York Times, novelist, Nixon speechwriter and etymo...
President Obama will soon face one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency: how to manage the war in Afghanistan. The fight right now is over troop levels. General Stanl...
Michael Moore has come out with his own take on the financial crisis. His new movie, "Capitalism: A Love Story," follows homeowners who have been foreclosed on by big banks, and the m...
State media in Iran is reporting that the country launched medium- and long-range missiles last night and this morning. Joining us to talk about the situation is Iran's ambassador to ...