Today's Takeaway: Senate Passes Deal to Avoid Shutdown Listen Download Embed Share Share this on Facebook (Opens in a new window) Share this on Twitter (Opens in a new window) Share this via Email Top of the Hour: Senate Reaches Deal to Avoid Shutdown, Morning Headlines Senate Passes Deal to Avoid Shut Down Gold Prices Plunge to $1600 Per Ounce Your Take: Support For the President How Will Conservative Candidates Court Hispanic Votes? New Report Questions Value of Single-Sex Schooling Greek PM Asks Germany for Assistance Top of the Hour: Supreme Court May Consider Health Care Law This Term, Morning Headlines Unemployment Rates Fall in the Rust Belt, Rise in the Sun Belt Is Chris Christie Reconsidering a Presidential Bid? 'Losing the Battle for Hearts and Minds' in Iraq Red Sox Defeated by Baltimore Musician K'Naan Returns to Somalia After Twenty Years A boy paddles his canoe through flood waters on September 4, 2011 in Lafitte, La. ( Sean Gardner/Getty Images / Getty ) Produced by PRI and WNYC