President Obama announced yesterday that he accepted General Stanley McChrystal's resignation as top commander in Afghanistan after the now infamous Rolling Stone profile of the general was leaked on Tuesday. Before the president's announcement, we spoke to Jack Jacobs, a retired Army colonel who taught McChrystal as a cadet at West Point. Col. Jacobs said he thought McChrystal was "the wrong guy for the job in the first place." Today, we ask David Kilcullen, author of the new book "Counterinsurgency" and former advisor to both General David Petraeus and McChrystal, if he agrees with Col. Jacobs' assessment; that story and this morning's headlines.

President Obama on Tuesday relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal of his duties in Afghanistan, less than 48 hours after it was revealed that McChrystal and his aides made disparaging remarks about high-ranking members of the Obama administration to a freelance journalist from Rolling Stone. McChrystal will be replaced by Gen. David Petraeus. We want to know what you think. Should Gen. Stanley McChrystal have kept his job?

Perhaps the only disaster equal in magnitude to the oil spill in the Gulf is the public relations disaster BP has on its hands for causing the spill. After weeks of embarrassing gaffes from BP executives, namely CEO Tony Hayward, BP is struggling to regain its footing. With the announcement that the maladroit Hayward is stepping away from overseeing daily operations related to the spill, BP is launching a media blitz in an attempt to mend their public image.

The centerpiece of that PR campaign is Darryl Willis. Willis is BP's vice president for resources who is now overseeing BP's claims process in the Gulf coast. He's also the star of a new ad campaign that seeks to portray him and the company as more caring and sincere than the steely Hayward. Part of the selling point of that strategy is the fact that Willis is a Louisiana native. 

Less than 48 hours after Rolling Stone’s profile of General Stanley McChrystal went viral on the Internet, President Obama relieved the four-star general of his job as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. General David Petraeus will now take over the post, leaving behind an opening at the Central Command in Iraq. Takeaway Washington correspondent, Todd Zwillich, was in the Rose Garden yesterday for Obama’s announcement. He explains the political implications of the president's decision and the response it is getting in Washington. Even though the president tried to drive home the point that strategy was not going to change, this personnel upset has reopened the strategy debate in Washington.

Existing and new home sales numbers for May came out this week, and they were nothing to get excited about. Economists and experts were blown away by figures announced by the Commerce Department on Tuesday. While a drop in sales was expected, no one expected the 32.7 percent nose-dive from the previous month's sales.

Thanks to social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, many aspects of our private lives are made public – whether it’s where we ate dinner last night or the person with whom we chose to eat that meal.

Of course, most of these bits and pieces are benign, or, depending on who you ask, even boring. But for some people - specifically gay people who are closeted or trying to come out - they can serve as an announcement about their sexual orientation.

Last hour, we spoke to David Kilcullen, a former adviser to Generals McChrystal and Petreaus, about McChrystal's ouster by President Obama yesterday. This hour, we speak to Mike Scotti, a former Marine first lieutenant who has served in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. Mike knows a thing or two about insubordination—he documented his time in Iraq with a video camera that he turned into the film "Severe Clear: Uncertainty, Chaos, Disorder, This is War." We ask him for his take on McChrystal's comments to Rolling Stone; this morning's headlines.

General Stanley McChrystal resigned his job as top U.S. commander in Afghanistan after disparaging remarks he made about President Obama, among others, were published in Rolling Stone magazine.

Does military culture always involve speaking out about your superiors, or was this just an unusual one-off at a very high level?

It doesn't get more dramatic than yesterday's World Cup match between the U.S. and Algeria. The stakes? If Team USA won, they would be off to the Cup's second round—but if they tied or lost, America's best hope for soccer glory in decades would be on a plane back home.

Team USA had repeated chances to score, missed open goals, and sent balls bouncing off of the goal post.  Then, just over a minute into injury time, Landon Donovan scored the critical goal that would send Team USA into the next round of the World Cup with a 1-0 win.  They now sit atop their Group C division, tied with England. (Watch Landon Donovan's goal after the jump.)

Yesterday, we told you about the Library of Congress's latest list of "significant" recordings that it will preserve. Bill Cosby, Tupac, Little Richard, and Patti Smith all made the cut, among others, but we wanted to know what you thought. If you were in charge of making the Library's list, what songs would you choose? 

Takeaway listeners had lots of creative ideas—and a few of them even show off some hidden talents.

As oil from a mile-deep wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico continues to gush, BP is set to break records by drilling two miles below the sea's surface off the coast of Alaska in pursuit of what they believe is a 100 million barrel reservoir of oil. 

"You have a company in the Gulf that was pushing the envelope in technology which played a role in this disaster," says Ian Urbina, national correspondent for The New York Times. "In the Arctic, the one project that is being allowed to go forward is by BP, and once again they are pushing the envelope."

Scenes of fear, pain, and trust between doctors and patients give viewers an intimate look at what happens at the hospital in "Boston Med," a new documentary series on ABC. The show is neither "reality TV" nor the fictionalized medical fantasy land that we see on "Grey's Anatomy" and "House." In fact, it's a very real documentary that provides an unflinching look at the relationships between doctors and patients. We talk to the show's executive producer and one of the featured doctors about gaining access and building trust, and why they made this documentary.

General Stanley McChrystal's fate was sealed with the publication of a bombshell Rolling Stone magazine profile on Tuesday. In less than forty-eight hours after the article surfaced on the internet, the U.S.'s top commander in the Afghanistan war found himself summoned to Washington, D.C. to hand his resignation to President Obama.

In a press conference announcing his decision to accept McChrystal's resignation, President Obama emphasized that "this is a change in personnel, but it is not a change in policy." Centcom commander General David Petraeus will take over for McChrystal. Though Petraeus is a familiar face with an arguably proven track record, some observers are dubious of the president's claim that U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is staying the same.

The Department of Homeland Security announced that it will start using unmanned drones to patrol the southern border of the United States, similar to the ones the military uses against Taliban insurgents in Pakistan. The Federal Aviation Association has approved the measure which would allow drones to fly along the Texas-Mexico border and throughout the Gulf Coast. "These types of flights aren't useful everywhere, but in some places they are part of the right mix of infrastructure, manpower and technology to improve border security," said Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International studies.