David J Fazekas

Nick Weaver revealed to his mom that he was gay when he was 12 years old. Now he is 15 and lives in Tulsa, Okla. Both he and his mom, Pam Anderson, talk with us about ...

The fall football season is getting into full swing with Detroit vs. Washington and the Buffalo Bills going up against the New Orleans Saints. We take a sneak peak at the upcoming NFL...

Russia’s richest man, Mikhail Prokhorov, signed a tentative $200 million deal on Wednesday to buy the New Jersey Nets. This would make the Nets the first foreign-owned team in the N...

The G20 summit kicks off in Pittsburgh today. Leaders from the world's biggest economies are gathering in the Steel City to develop plans for repairing the wounded global economy, ref...

Michael Vick has traded prison orange for the "midnight-green"-and-white jersey of the Philadelphia Eagles, and might even get up off the bench soon. The Takeaway's sports contributor...

Georgia and much of the Southeast is recuperating from the heavy rains and floods that destroyed homes and cars this week. Ten people have officially been reported dead because of the...

Takeaway sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin tells us about Major League Baseball's push to the playoffs, including a look at the wildest wild card races in the American League (De...

The NCAA released their college football rankings this week. There aren't too many surprises: Florida tops the list and Michigan didn't crack the top 25. But after their upset win ove...

The Emmy Awards celebrated the world of television Sunday night with their 61st broadcast, hosted by Neil Patrick Harris. "30 Rock" and "Mad Men" both repeated last year's wins for be...

It's Monday and that means it's time to check what's on the agenda this week. Marcus Mabry, International Business Editor for our partner, The New York Times, and Andrew Walker from t...

The New York Jets had dropped eight straight games to the New England Patriots on their own turf... until yesterday, when the Jets broke the streak and beat the Patriots 16-9. We take...

President Obama campaigned on an agenda of change: change for health care, change for the environment and change for the nation. Ten months into his presidency, those changes have pro...

The Takeaway's sports contributor, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, joins us to talk about one of the NFL's key matchups this week: the New York Giants' visit to the Dallas Cowboys in an NFC East...

The Takeaway's sports contributor, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, is ready to talk football: specifically, the biggest game in the AFC East. Tom Brady and the New England Patriots hope to win t...

Today the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission conducts its first public meeting. The commission is a bipartisan commission tasked with finding the root cause of the nation's financial...

The race for baseball's Most Valuable Player is heating up, especially in the American League, where at least four different players are vying for the award. In the National League, i...

Bonuses for bankers aren't just a Wall Street problem. Nations from the European Union — mostly led by France — are hammering out an agreement on reforming structures for giving out b...

As Chicago tries to drum up support for its bid to host the 2016 Olympic Games, Paddy O'Connell, host of the BBC radio program Broadcasting House, joins us with a look at the challeng...

With a roll call vote of 240-179 mainly along party lines, the House of Representatives yesterday passed a resolution of disapproval of Congressman Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina). Wils...

The House of Representatives passed a resolution Tuesday reprimanding South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson for shouting "You lie!" to the president during his address to the joint se...