Ian Mylchreest, executive producer of KNPR's State of Nevada on today's primaries; headlines.

Primary races are scheduled in eleven states today. We are looking at two elections with national implications: Arkansas, where the power of organized labor is at play, and Nevada, where Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is hoping a specific GOP pick will enable him to keep his seat. 

In Arkansas, Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln is facing a run-off against Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. Organized labor groups, both local and national, have thrown their weight behind Halter, saying Lincoln betrayed them by not supporting a public option in health care reform and by voting for NAFTA as a U.S. Representative, in 1993. National labor groups have pumped millions of dollars into the race - leading some analysts to suggest that Arkansas' primary contest has been hijacked by national interests.

Google recently pulled out of mainland China, blaming the restrictions of government censorship in the country. Now, China has defended its right to censor the Internet in an official government paper, which laid out the leadership's attitude toward the web. It also states that foreign firms operating in China should abide by the country's Internet rules.

Across the country, a groundswell of public outrage continues to grow against oil giant BP as oil continues to leak into the Gulf of Mexico. That's despite the news that a cap is helping to collect between 10,000 and 20,000 gallons of oil a day. Some Twitter users, irritated at the situation, have vented their outrage to the Twitter user @BP.

Unfortunately, @BP is not that BP. It's the Twitter handle of Bryan Pendleton, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon who says a typical tweet is "'clean it up, followed by an expletive."

In 1996, Curtis Flowers, a 39 year-old African American, was accused of murdering four people in Mississippi. He now prepares to go to trial for a sixth time. The previous court appearances resulted in two mistrials and three overturned convictions. The stark racial divide in the small Mississippi community of Winona is making it nearly impossible to build a jury of Flowers’ peers, says Charlie Smith, news editor at The Greenwood Commonwealth, who has been following the trial.

The American workforce is still surprisingly segregated by gender, and this separation does not seem to benefit women. Two-thirds of working women are concentrated in only five percent of occupational categories. And in the few fields where more than 90 percent of workers are women – like childcare and food preparation – the pay tends to be low. Compare this low pay to male-dominated industries (there are a lot of them). Almost one in four job categories, such as construction work and trucking consist of workforces that are almost exclusively male. And those same jobs pay up to 30 percent more than traditionally female jobs like secretarial work.

Dean Blanchard runs Dean Blanchard Seafood in Grand Isle, Louisiana. He says that cleanup jobs in the Gulf aren't having much of a positive effect on the local economy. And we bring you the latest headlines.

In a Saturday radio address from Grand Isle, La., President Obama promised to "stand with the people of the Gulf Coast until they are made whole."  Making the gulf coast whole, so far, is taking a lot of manpower: 17,500 National Guard troops deployed to aid in the response; 20,000 people cleaning shorelines and beaches; and more than 1,900 vessels laying boom in the gulf. The cleanup may bring a surge of temporary work, but residents of the Gulf Coast worry that the boom will be temporary at best.

The Washington Nationals pitcher, Stephen Strasburg was the number one overall pick in the draft last year, and today he makes his Major League Baseball debut. Washington fans are giddy with excitement and the team is selling standing-only tickets to the sold-out ball game. 

It's been 50 days since oil began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. We've seen botched cleanup attempts, oil-soaked animals, tar balls on beaches and blunders from BP CEO, Tony Hayward. Takeaway listeners have a lot to say on BP's mistakes and whether, as President Obama suggested, the company's CEO should be fired.

Helen Thomas resigned yesterday as columnist for Hearst Newspapers and ended nearly 50 years as a White House correspondent. Her retirement came on the heels of a controversial video that went viral, in which she told a White House visitor that Israelis need to "get the hell out of Palestine" and return back to their homes in Germany and Poland. Where does this controversy leave Thomas's legacy? We talk with Washington Post columnist, Sally Quinn.

In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, President Obama suggested that if he were in charge,  BP's CEO would be out of a job. He also used harsh language when addressing critics who have said that he responded too slowly to the oil spill crisis.

Today's primaries may feel local, but they are getting a national push. Sarah Palin visited South Carolina on behalf of gubernatorial candidate, Nikki Haley. Palin's appearance catapulted the candidate to the head of the polls. Nevada's Senate primary is also a Tea Party election, according to Takeaway Washington correspondent, Todd Zwillich. There, Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle seems positioned to win the primary, which will pit her against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. This bodes well for Reid as Tea Party candidates have a hard time winning national elections.

Specialist Bradley Manning was arrested for giving Wikileaks a video showing a military helicopter firing on civilians and killing two Reuters reporters. The specialist had struck up a friendship with an ex-hacker, who eventually turned him in for the leak. According to New York Times reporter, Elisabeth Bumiller interviewed the ex-hacker, who said the soldier was unhappy with the military and its policies  Bumiller details the recent arrest and the relationship between the two men.