Yesterday, President Obama made one last-ditch attempt to push for health care overhaul. After a year of debate, the president said it was time for the Senate to cast an "up or down vote" on the final version of the bill. Still, many Republicans — and even some Democrats — do not support the proposal. The push comes just a week after the president's heath care summit at the White House, and after he said he would be open to four republican ideas gleaned from that discussion.

• MONEY TAKEOUT: More and more companies are turning to the International Trade Commission to settle disputes over patents. New York Times business reporter Louise Story breaks down the benefits of filing complaints with the ITC instead of federal courts
• BRAZIL TAKEOUT: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues on her tour of South America, and her next stop is Brazil, a powerful player in the region. Clinton failed to persuade the country to end its opposition to sanctions against Iran. Americo Martins Dos Santos, the head of the BBC's Americas Region and a Brazilian, joins us to talk more about Clinton's visit and Brazil's growing role in international politics.
  

Recent college students are defaulting on their student loans in growing numbers. If default rates get bad enough, it can threaten federal funding for their alma maters. But a group of historically black colleges in Texas may have found a way to slow the default problem by counseling students about their financial responsibilities.

What’s in a word? Well if the word is “genocide,” then it has the potential to do a lot of diplomatic damage between the U.S. and Turkey. Today the House Foreign Affairs Committee votes on a resolution to formally recognize a World War One-era massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces as genocide. 

Online vigilante justice has become commonplace in China, but it also occurs right here in the U.S. It's a phenomenon in which internet users hunt down and punish people who’ve attracted their wrath...oftentimes for unpunished acts that are considered reprehensible. Some feel this particular form using tech savvy to give people what they deserve is useful, but questions arise about whether online vigilantism is dangerous.

Spanish authorities say they have arrested the ring leaders of a 'bot-net,' or network of millions of hacked computers all over the world. The group was planning to siphon financial and other sensitive information from companies, several of which are American, according to officials.

The largest-ever survey of American teachers was released yesterday by the Gates Foundation and the Scholastic publishing company. Forty thousand teachers answered questions on how to fix schools and what they need to do a better job. We find out what the biggest needs of teachers are, according to the survey.

• CHILEAN EARTHQUAKE UPDATE: Last weekend's devastating earthquake severely damaged Chilean architect Pierina Benvenuto's home and dislocated family members — while she was in Chicago. Though the worst damage seems behind her, Pierina tells us of her desire and hesitation to return home.
• SPORTS TAKEOUTS: Baseball's spring training has just kicked off, and with the return of baseball come pennant dreams and steroid scandals. Takeaway sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin joins us to talk about a Canadian doctor embroiled in a new steroid scandal.  

The federal government is thinking about implementing a new formula to calculate poverty. The new formula would increase the number of poor from 13.2 percent to 15.8 percent. The striking change comes among the elderly, where under the new measure, 18.7 percent of people 65-years-old and over are under the poverty line. That's 7.1 million Americans and an increase from 9.7 percent.

How far would you go to get a potential employer’s attention? It's a question being answered today by Bill Bunten, mayor of a city formerly known as Topeka. In a bid to attract the global search giant, Topeka has officially changed its name to "Google Kansas — the Capital of Fiber Optics," in the hopes of attracting attention from the global search and advertising company, which is currently searching for a location to try out a new ultra-fast internet connection.

A network of secret caves dug into rocky mountains reportedly used by both Taliban and al-Qaeda has been discovered in Pakistan. Still housing bedding and mattresses, the network may have been used by some of the organizations' top leadership. BBC correspondent Shoaib Hassan joins us to describe this mysterious discovery further.

Thirty years ago today, Robert Mugabe was elected as Zimbabwe’s first Black Prime Minister, and the country erupted in celebration. But in the interem, many have regretted his era of rule, which has been sometimes characterized by executive power-grabbing and economic disaster.

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