Kent DePinto

Guest: Karla Raettig, Legislative Representative for Wildlife Conservation at the National Wildlife Federation, and Kaush Arha, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

John McCain visited New Jersey for the sixth time yesterday, collecting support in a state that is historically blue. With 15 electoral votes going to the victor of the Garden State, can McCain make New Jersey swing?

Guests: Stephen Eke, BBC Russian Affairs Analyst, and James Collins, a former U.S. ambassador to Russia.

Guest: Shirong Chen, China analyst for the BBC

When America's largest kosher meatpacking plant was raided, investigators found something far more egregious than undocumented workers: laborers as young as 14 working through the night and in hazardous conditions.

Guest: Dan Griffiths, BBC Correspondent in Beijing

The Olympic Flame arrived in Beijing on Wednesday (Tuesday night in the United States) after a long, strange 130-day trip that began in Olympia back in March. View a map of the torch...

A year ago this Friday, Minnesota's I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapsed. Now a report released by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials says near...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the legislation that launched NASA and, subsequently, the human race into the great beyond. But have we really pushed our boundaries as far as spac...

The number of people of seeking pardons and commutations for federal crimes continues to climb — and the backlog of petitions is in the thousands. With President Bush's ter...

Seventy-five years ago, on July 28, 1933, Sheila Barrett became the first woman to make a national broadcast on BBC Radio. The anniversary got us here at the Takeaway thinking, how h...

Which U.S. state has the lowest life expectancy? Which congressional district has the highest high school dropout rate? The surprising answers to these questions can be found in “The...

While filming a documentary on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, Sean Langan ("Fighting the Taliban") was abducted and held captive by the Taliban for three months. His captors were hi...

In 2006, Ben Bernanke inherited an economy that Fed chairs do not dream of. There was an economic slowdown, with job losses, lagging homes sales and increasing foreign debt. With gr...

Is there such a thing as recession-proof stuff? If we’re all being tight with our wallets, then why, in this time of economic turmoil, are certain industries thriving? The Takeaway tu...

Guest: Steve Hindy, founder of Brooklyn Brewery

Guest: Heidi Hammel, Space Science Institute

President Bush joins other foreign heads of state in his last G8 conference. This year, the gathering of world leaders focuses on greenhouse gas emissions, global economic woes and Af...

While today’s Fourth of July will remind many of us of what it means to be an American, for a handful, the national holiday will pay tribute to only one of several citizenships. More ...

U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay James Cason has recorded a 16-track album in Guaraní, the official indigenous language of Paraguay, turning the foreign-serviceman into a national sensation.