Record numbers of Americans voted early this year. Michael McDonald, a voting expert and professor at George Mason University, analyzes what we know about those early votes, and what they say about what will happen tomorrow.
NFL players may seem invulnerable, but recently a spate of staph infections has hit teams around the country. The potentially dangerous infection spreads from close contact and skin abrasions. CDC epidemiologist Jeff Hageman explain best ways for non-athletes to avoid infection.
Hillsborough County, Florida, is one of the "Counties that Count" in the 2008 election. The city of Tampa has both white, devoutly Christian voters and low-income blacks, with a mixed population filling in new suburbs. So what's motivating these key constituents to make their choice — and to make their choice early?
The Christian Science Monitor has announced that it will stop publishing a daily print edition and move its focus to the web. Editor John Yemma will explain the venerable news organization's plans for the future and what changes at the Monitor say about the industry.
Both presidential candidates believe Pennsylvania is a crucial — and winnable — prize. Today Barack Obama, John McCain and Sarah Palin are campaigning in the state.
Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska has been convicted of lying about gifts he received from an oil contractor. Despite the guilty verdict, the Republican isn't out of the race for the Senate seat he's held for 40 years.
"Cloud computing" is just a buzzword, but major software players are betting on computing that happens over the Internet rather than on desktops. Yesterday Microsoft unveiled its brand new "cloud-based" operating system, and if you use Facebook, Skype, Google Documents, or Apple's MobileMe, you are already computing in the cloud.
Hasidic Rabbi Aaron Rubashkin expanded his family's Brooklyn butcher shop into the largest kosher meat plant in the nation. The underside of his success was revealed this spring after an immigration raid at his Iowa plant, including violations of child labor laws.
In the final, intense sprint to the finish of the election, is there a Sarah Palin insurgency? Politico blogger Ben Smith sees increasing signs of tension in the McCain-Palin camp as lousy poll numbers and damaging revelations — like Palin's $150,000 makeover — are leading to finger-pointing and skirmishes within the campaign.
This week, public radio's This American Life goes to the ultimate battleground state, Pennsylvania, to find out why Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican candidate John McCain think they can win there and to meet some of the citizens doing on-the-ground campaigning. Host Ira Glass tells The Takeaway what they learned.
The U.S. government has dismissed all charges against five prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay after the military prosecutor assigned to the cases resigned, saying the government had withheld evidence. Jonathan Mahler, author of "The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power" explains what's likely to happen to the five detainees and what this means for the future of the controversial prison and court.
