Luke Burbank

It looks like one of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s New Year's resolutions is to encourage all Russians to think twice about reaching for their favorite drink. As of January 1st...

The 2010 census is just around the corner. It's the once-every-decade tally of who lives where in the United States. One of its provisions requires counting prisoners in the place whe...

Afghanistan Takeout:  At least 8 Americans are dead after a suicide bombing at a remote base in Afghanistan. Details are still emerging, but reports say most of the dead are CIA emp...

Later today, President Obama gets a preliminary report on what went wrong in the country's airport security systems. One of the things the report will mention is how U.S. intelligence...

What goes down, must come up, and then go back down again...at least that's been the story of our economy over the past ten years. As we continue our week-long look back at the decade...

It may seem like we know everything about the natural world around us, but new species are being discovered every year. The man in charge of helping decide the most interesting discov...

The Nigerian man who attempted to blow up a Northwest jetliner last week had spent months in Yemen, a country some are concerned is becoming a new training ground for al-Qaida. We spe...

TV Takeout: Old-style 'rabbit-ears' antennae are making their way back on top of television sets. David Sarno of the Los Angeles Times explains how digital Over-The-Air (OTA) broadc...

Wendell Potter worked as an executive for over 15 years at health insurance giant CIGNA before becoming a whistle-blower and an advocate for health care reform.  He is currently the S...

It's Wednesday, the day we talk about food.  New Year's Eve is almost here and folks will be celebrating in all kinds of different ways; hopefully all of them will involve food and go...

2009 was the year of women … in pop music at least. Caryn Ganz, from Rolling Stone, tells us which female artists dominated our iPods this year, and why.

Details are still trickling out on how the alleged Christmas Day 'bomber' managed to board a Detroit-bound plane despite several intelligence agencies having some information on him. ...

Privaty Takeout: John Schwartz, legal correspondent for The New York Times, says a debate is brewing over balancing privacy and security for airline travelers, following an alleged ...

As the census approaches, a debate has begun to brew in Hispanic communities – to stand up and be counted, or not? We talk with two pastors who stand on opposite sides of the issue: D...

As part our week-long look at how our lives have changed over the last decade, we turn to advances in technology. Joining us to weigh in on the most notable tech innovations during th...

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempted to detonate an explosive called pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PETN, on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas day. PETN was ...

Minnesotans have a lot to lose this year if they don’t fill out the 2010 Census: They could lose a congressional seat. The Takeaway talks with a Tom Scheck of Minnesota Public Radio a...

Protest Takeout: A terror plot abroad a Northwest Airlines flight has angered Muslims in Dearborn, Mich., to stand up against radical Islam. Majed Moughni, an attorney in Dearborn, ...

The investigation continues into how Uma Farouk Abdulmutallab was allegedly able to smuggle explosives onto Northwest Airlines Flight 253. President Obama from Hawaii said in a press ...

It's Tuesday, our day on The Takeaway to consider how work affects our lives. With millions of Americans scrambling to find work after layoffs, and millions more who will have to work...