A technician works on a New York City Police Department security camera in Times Square May 5, 2010. (Getty Images/Getty)
BP maneuvers a giant inverted funnel (it's being called the "100-ton contraption") to try and capture the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico; looking at security lapses in light of the Times Square almost-bombing; Sen. Lieberman (I-Conn.) proposes a law to strip American citizenship from anyone found joining a foreign effort against the U.S.; the National Day of Prayer and the First Amendment; the history of protest by athletes as the Phoenix Suns wear their "Los Suns" jerseys in support of Latinos in Arizona. Todd Zwillich fills in for John Hockenberry.
News director for WWL radio in New Orleans, Dave Cohen, gives us the latest on what's being done to fix the gusher; headlines.
Last night at around 8:00 p.m. the "Joe Griffin," a 280-foot container boat, left Port Fourchoun, Louisiana for a fifty mile trip to the site of the collapsed Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) has called for Americans charged with terror crimes to be stripped of their citizenship. However, there's no precedent for stripping an American of his or her citizenship and the law says that the U.S. cannot use the revocation of citizenship as punishment. The issue is murky and we turn to Peter Spiro, a professor of law at Temple University and Dr. Azima Khan, an immigrant from Pakistan who recently received her citizenship, join us to talk about the case.
While we're all celebrating the capture of the alleged would-be Times Square bomber, there's story of another bomber that has been lost in the mix. This bomber successfully detonated a bomber in Times Square, in front of an army recruiting station back in 2008. He is also suspected of setting off explosives in front of the U.K. and Mexican Consulates in New York City. Why has this man not been caught? WNYC's Bob Hennelly has been following this story and knows the answer.
For this week's tech segment, we're looking at surveillance as an aid to terror investigations. How effective are video cameras and other surveillance technologies in catching criminals after the fact (or preventing crime in the first place)? And are some surveillance methods better than others? We talk with two experts.
Scott Shane, reporter for The New York Times' Washington bureau, on the ties between the Pakistani Taliban and the Times Sq. bomber; headlines.
The question everybody is asking this week has been, who is 30-year-old Faisal Shahzad, the man held and accused of placing a car bomb in New York's Times Square over the weekend? After two days of intense interrogation efforts, news continues to trickle in about the motives and connections behind the attempted attack.
It’s decision time in the U.K. today: Voters in Britain are casting their votes in the general election – and it’s the most unpredictable election in a generation.
Laura Lynch is the London-based correspondent for PRI’s The World. She’s already exercised her right to vote this morning and will be heading down to Parliament green to cover the election later today.
Following the dramatic arrest of Times Square car bombing suspect Faisal Shazhad, we asked our listeners where should personal freedoms end when national security is at stake? Do we need to boost our security measures or are there already too many? You respond.
Today is the National Day of Prayer; it's an official observance from Congress, and has been around since 1952. This year's event, however, could be the last time the federal government remains officially involved. Last month a federal district court judge ruled that the government's involvement in the day violated the Constitution, by conflating church and state. Should we have a National Day of Prayer?
The European Central Bank meets in Lisbon today to try to find a way to stop Greece's economic crisis from spreading. Meanwhile, Greece's parliament is set to vote on budget cuts to help curb the country's debts. Theo Legget, business reporter for the BBC fills us in on how the crisis may affect European and American interests.
Instead of their usual jerseys, the Phoenix Suns wore shirts with "Los Suns" inscribed across the chest as they played the Spurs last night. This change in wardrobe was explicitly meant as a nod in support of Arizona's Latino population, and a protest to Arizona's new immigration law, signed by Governor Jan Brewer last week.
Rep. David Obey, an influential democrat in the House of Representatives, announced he would not seek reelection at the end of his term in November. Obey who represents Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District, is the third-most senior member of the house and is the chairman of the Appropriations Committee. He served in Congress for more than four decades.
Today's Takeaway: Obesity Among the Homeless, Egyptian Elections, Morgan Stanley in Hot Water, and Have College Students Stopped Studying?
Why Increased Immigration is the Solution for America's Ailing Economy
Is the Private Era in Space Officially Upon Us?
Archer Records Keeps Vinyl and Detroit's Techno Scene Alive
Today's Takeaway: Over 50 and Unemployed, Texting in Class, The Future of Yemen, and Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America
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