Chelsea Merz

The Hamdan trial continues in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Yesterday, prosecutors in the trial of Osama bin Laden's driver, Salim Hamdan, unveiled a graphic video of the Sept. 11, 2001, te...

Texting while driving is dangerous. That's clear. But it turns out that texting while walking comes with its own risks. More and more pedestrians are turning up in emergency rooms wi...

Jason Burnett, a former Environmental Protection Agency official, told the Senate's Environment and Public Works committee that the White House pressured the EPA in 2007 to deny clima...

The future Donald Trumps of the world will soon need the help of a palm reader to ascend the corporate ladder. In an effort to finger cheats, aspiring CEOs will be screened by a high-...

Since 2001, when a federal funding freeze crippled research into the use of human embryonic stem cells to treat a host of congenital and degenerative conditions, molecular biologists ...

With food and gas prices soaring, eating out has become a luxury. But a growing movement, with its pay-what-you-can policy, is making a trip to the restaurant affordable—and for some,...

As South Africa gears up to toast its favorite citizen, Nelson Mandela, The Takeaway celebrates the former president and anti-apartheid icon on his 90th birthday.

A London-based advertising campaign, aimed at generating gay travel to the United States is selling South Carolina as “so gay.” South Carolina officials are saying “no way.” The Take...

When it comes to the issues, Barack Obama and John McCain couldn’t be more different. But when it comes to literature, the two are remarkably the same. Each cites Hemingway’s “For Who...

There is a new enemy on the battlefields of Iraq and it's too small to be seen. It's Acinetobacter baumannii, a drug-resistant killer microbe.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is following through with a runoff election despite mounting international appeals to call it off. The Takeaway asks veteran journalist Andrew Meldr...

Friday marks the fifth anniversary of a law responsible for recovering some peace and quiet in your life: The National Do Not Call Registry. The Takeaway listens to what we've been missing.

In Iraq there have been two wars. The focus of the first was was to capture or kill the enemy, The focus of the current one is to pick up the pieces of the invasion. The Takeaway talk...

Dark matter, one of cosmology’s most curious mysteries, has yet to be seen. But theorists have good reason to believe that it exists, and that galaxies, stars, and planets could never...

Don't know what movie to see this weekend? The Takeaway is here to help. It's the Mother of All Trailers. This week: Get Smart, The Love Guru, Brick Lane and Kit Kittredge.

As floods reach record levels in the Midwest, thousands of people have been displaced. Homes, businesses and crops have been destroyed. Are humans partly to blame for this increased r...

A new study says cancer patients nearing the end of life want the truth. But it's not all that simple. Everyday, and with every patient, Dr. John Marshall has to reexamine what it means to tell this truth.

In Cedar Rapids, Iowa — among the hardest hit by flooding so far — the water that forced nearly 24,000 people from their homes is starting to recede. Still, thousands of residents rem...

China's "Gen-Xers" are the first to grow up in a hybrid society of communism and capitalism. The Takeaway talks with filmmaker Sue Williams, whose new FRONTLINE documentary, "Young an...

This was a busy week for space news watchers. The GLAST gamma-ray space observatory blasted off, the International Astronomical Union dubbed dwarf planets "plutoids" in honor of the o...