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August 20, 2009
• President Obama Reaching Out to Base for Help on Health Care Reform; Terrorist Convicted in Lockerbie Bombing Released from Scotland to Libya; Afghanistan Holds Second Ever Presidential Election; D.C. School Voucher Program Ending Due to Lack of Funds; The Battle to Get a Business Loan
• Obama Addresses Health Care, Other Issues on Talk Radio Show; U.S. Victims' Families, Government Object to Pan Am 103 Bomber's Release; Paterson, N.J. Considers Temporary Nighttime Curfew for All Residents
• America's Third War Front; Lockerbie Bomber Released; Afghan Voters Defy Taliban Threat; Cash For Clunkers; Bad Credit Derailing Dreams; Critical Condition; Assassins for Hire; Debt Collection Abuse; Giving Afghans a Voice
• Afghan Voters Defy Taliban Threat; Sources: CIA Paid Firm to Kill Al Qaeda Leaders; Scotland Frees Lockerbie Bomber; Surprise Rise in Weekly Jobless Claims; Ailing Senator Kennedy Seeks Quick Replacement on His Death; End of the Road for Cash for Clunkers; Massachusetts Provides Health Care Model; Atlanta a New Hub for Mexican Drug Cartels; Afghans Educating Next Generation
• Pan Am Bomber Freed; Senator Kennedy Pushes for Legislative Provisions in Wake of Illness; The Effect of Homicide Rate on Chicago Residents; Recovery and Giving Back
• Ted Kennedy's Poignant Plea; Massachusetts May Provide Roadmap for National Health Care Reform; Pan Am Flight 103 Bomber Released; Hurricane Bill Downgraded


August 19, 2009
• Can Democrats "Go It Alone" In Health Care Reform?; Couple Killed by Wild Dogs; President Obama Considers Nuclear Option to Pass Health Care Reform; President Employing Pastors to Preach Health Care Reform; "Save the Whales" Billboard by PETA Offensive to Some
• Tracking Hurricane Bill; Violence Increases in Baghdad; Model Sues for Online Defamation; Army Entrants to Be Taught Coping Skills; Dogs Maul and Kill Georgia Couple; Earthquake Hits Alaska
• Will Dems Include GOP in Health-Care Reform?; Some Turn to Co- Ops for Health Care; Barney Frank Takes on Protestors; Deadly Bombings in Iraq; Hurricane Bill Expected to Pass U.S.; Hong Kong Property Prices Rebounding; Coverage of Gibbs' White House Press Conference on Health Care
• Health Reform Without Republicans?; General Motors Bringing Back 1,350 Workers; Congressman Barney Frank Fires Back at Town Hall Crowd; Don Hewitt Dies at 86 Years Old; First Provision of Credit Card Reform Will Take Effect Tomorrow; The Logistics of Voting in Afghanistan; Milwaukee Mayor Comments on Attack
• Health Reform Strategy Shift?; Afghanistan to Vote Under Threats From the Taliban; "60 Minutes" Creator Don Hewitt Dies at 86
• GM Boosts Its Production; Hurricane Bill Becomes More Well Defined; High Cost Of Prescription Drugs; More Rules On Credit Card Changes; Security Major Concern for Afghan Voters; Democrats Consider Going It Alone on Health Care Reform; Irresponsible Blogging vs. Free Speech; Frank Fired Back at Critics During Town Hall; Dr. Murray Breaks Silence Via YouTube; Government-Sponsored Pairings in Nigeria Hope To Prevent More Spread of HIV/AIDS
• Dozens Killed in Baghdad Blast; Make or Break Maneuvering in Health Care; Process of Health Care Reform; Don't Cover the Violence; Health Care Concerns


August 18, 2009
• Michael Jackson's Doctor Speaks Out; Milwaukee Mayor Beaten; Jenny Sanford Speaks Out About Husband's Affair
• Combat Stress Following Troops Home; Dems Hit Back, Hit the Road; Robert Novak Dies at 78; Artist Has Message about Health Care Reform; White House Press Conference on President's Remarks about Health Care
• What Would Public Health Plan Mean for Public?; Texas Judge Investigated for Misconduct; Robert Novak Dead at 78; Asia on Mend from Recession; Afghanistan Trying to Prevent Voter Intimidation
• Bob Novak Dies at 78; Credit Card Rates Zoom; Violence Precedes Afghan Elections; Housing Happenings; Are Health Co-Ops the Answer?; Cubans Brace for Hurricane Season
• Public Health Insurance Fight; Public Option Defined; Preparing to Vote Amid Violence in Iraq; Inside a Health Co-Op; Some of Britain's "X-Files" Released; Soldiers Battle Psychological Difficulties at Home; Longtime Journalist Bob Novak Dies
• Supreme Court Orders New Hearing for Troy Davis; Two Top Taliban Figures Arrested; Gastric Bypass and Insurance; Biggest Credit Card Breach in U.S. History Allegedly Pulled Off By Self-Taught Programmer; The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Buying a Foreclosed Home; Status of Public Option in Doubt
• President Pressured on Health Care, Examining the Public Option; Voting Violence in Afghanistan; Targeting the Taliban; Eye on the Tropics, Banks Still Reluctant to Lend; Cubans Brace for Hurricane Season; Inside a Health Care Cooperative; Gastric Bypass Surgery and Insurance; Painting for Health Care Change


August 17, 2009
• Assault Rifles Spied Openly at Phoenix Rally; Keeping an Eye on Storms A, B, and C of the Season; Japan Pulls Out of Recession; No Public Health Option?; Tiger Woods Loses PGA in Final Round; Man Assaulted by Police Caught on Videotape; Tasers Increasingly Seen as Alternative to Firearms
• Troubled Vets Find Allies and Hope; Town Halls Taking Place Across the Country Today; No Public Option?; America's Souring Dairy Farms; Tangible Health Care Innovation in Las Vegas; Iraqi Bodyguard Makes New Life in Atlanta; Little Progress Made in Appointing Federal Cyberczar
• Obama Addresses Veterans about Health Care; Forecasters Watching Ana, Bill
• Obama Administration Softens on Public Option; Health Insurance Co-Ops; Gays Tortured, Killed in Iraq; Blue Dog Democrat Town Hall; Christian Health Care Co-op; Your Electric Bill; Tracking Three Storms Simultaneously; Health Care For All?
• Shift in Health Care Debate; Will Town Hall Tone Change?; Stimulus: Six-Month Checkup; Season's First Atlantic Hurricanes Heading West; Taiwan Still Recovering after Typhoon; S. Koreans Proud of Yang's PGA Win; Falling Milk Prices Hurt Small Dairy Farms
• Claudette Makes U.S. Landfall; Health Care Overhaul with Signs of Compromise; Democrats Believe Stimulus is on the Right Track; New Report Shows Japan Has Emerged From Recession; The Physics of Good and Bad Sleep; Obama Set to Speak to VFW Convention; Three Storms Signal Start of Hurricane Season; Supreme Court Gives Georgia Death Row Inmate Another Shot to Prove Innocence; Iraqi Gay Men Afraid For Their Lives
• Hurricane Season Kicks Off With Three Storms; Focus on Military Vets; Is the Stimulus Working?; Debunking Reform Myths; Crews Fight Nearly a Dozen of Wildfires; Progress in Pakistan; Healthy San Francisco


August 16, 2009
• Truth about Health Care; A Trifecta of Storms: Ana, Bill and Claudette; Japan's Economy Rebounding?; Human Smuggling in Mexico; Losing a Child to Violence
• Gulf Coast Storm Preps; The President & Veterans; Mayor Injured in Crime Fight; New York's Crowded Skies; Serial Killer in Rocky Mount?
• Trifecta of Storms Threatening U.S.; Heath Reform May Not Have Public Option; Rally in Atlanta Billed as "Biggest Town Hall"; Stimulus Money for National Parks; Two Congressmen Debate the Health Care Plan
• Milwaukee Mayor Attacked; Five African American Women Killed in North Carolina; Woodstock 40th Anniversary; High Heels Trigger Pain
• Public Option May Not Be Deal Breaker For President Obama In Health Care Reform Deal; Health Care Reform Town Halls Continue; Taiwan Devastated By Typhoon; American Prison In Myanmar Released To Senator Webb Upon A Visit To The Country; North Carolina Serial Killer Suspected; Claudette and Ana and Bill Head for Landfall; Canadian Woman Back From Kenya After Passport Hold-Up; Some Tweeting May Be Too Much Information


August 15, 2009
• Discussion and Analysis of President Obama's Town Hall Meeting in Grand Junction, Colorado
• Pres. Obama's Town Hall; A Serial Killer in Rocky Mount?; Human Smuggling in Mexico; Michael Vick Takes the Field Again
• Health Care Reform; Deadly Typhoon in Taiwan; GPS from Tele Atlas; Hudson River Collision, Surviving Plane Crash, Some Democrats and Republicans Agree, CNN Hero, Wong Fu
• Health Care Reform Debated In Town Halls Across The Country
• California State of Emergency, President Obama Town Hall Meetings, Taliban Suicide Bomber Voter Intimidation; America's National Treasures in Need of Repair
• Obama to Hold Colorado Town Hall; Myanmar Frees American Prisoner; Taliban Vows to Stop Afghan Election; Michael Vick's Second Chance; Free Health Clinic of Last Resort; NASA's Budget Woes Threaten its Future; Wildfires in California Threaten to Spread
• Senator Jim Webb Travels to Myanmar to Secure Release of John Yettaw; President Obama Travels the Country to Push Health Care Reform; 2009 Medal of Freedom Recipients Talk About Their Experience


August 14, 2009
• President Obama Holds Town Hall Meeting in Montana
• President Obama Takes Reform Pitch to Montana; 'Blue Dog' Feels Heat From Both Sides of Health Reform; Another Bank Failureon the Horizon?; The Partnership Between Michael Vick and Humane Society
• Obama to Speak at Montana Town-Hall; Air-Traffic Controllers Suspended after Hudson River Crash; Freerunners Use City as Playground; New Cash for Clunkers Promises More Selection, Faster Pay; Germany a Model for U.S. Health Insurance Debate; Some Parents Wary of HPV Vaccine; Organization that Aids Former Gang Members is Strapped for Cash
• Fire Help on the Way in California; Health Care Town Halls Touch Off Broader Debate; New York Air Controllers Suspended; Health Care Not Color Blind; Michael Vick Returns to NFL; Pre-Existing Health Problems; Is the Recession Over?
• Michael Vick Returns to NFL; President Obama Back on Road, Offensive on Health Care Reform; Congressman Mike Ross Criticized From Both Sides on Health Debate; Wildfires Burning in Northern California; 118 Confirmed Dead after Typhoon; BB&T Reportedly Buying Colonial Bank
• Funeral Procession Held for War Hero; Getting the Pulse of the People on Healthcare; New Troubles for Colonial Bancgroup; Michael Vick Back in the NFL; Surprises About Arlo Guthrie
• Biggest Bank Failure Yet; FAA Suspends NYC Air Controllers; President Pitches Health Care Plan; Typhoon in Taiwan Cuts Off Towns; Kids Enrolled in Vaccine Trials; Gates Assesses the Mission in Afghanistan; Ross on the Battle for Health Care Reform; Fortieth Anniversary of Woodstock; Afghanistan Preps For Key election


August 13, 2009
• Captain Speicher's Body Finally Returns Home; Pitino Embroiled in Sex Scandal; Banning of "Burquinis" Cause Controversy; Representative Sheila Jackson Lee's Phone Call During Town Hall Causes Controversy
• Health Care Debate Hits Home; Touring the Heartland, Talking Health Care, Economy; College Squeeze: Less Student Financial Aid; Boys Admit to Raping Fellow Liberian Refugee; Sheila Jackson Lee Answers Cell Phone in the Middle of Town Hall Meeting; Part of Operation Eastern Resolve Two Kicks Off in Afghanistan; Go Anywhere JetBlue Goes For Flat Fee
• Everyday Americans Weigh in on Health Care; Couple Faces Jail After Foreclosure; Wildfire Ablaze in California; Young Muslims Attending Boot Camps; Thailand's Health System Depends on Volunteers
• Survey Says Recession Ended; Fight Over Health Care Reform; Fierce Fighting in Afghanistan; Pulsing of the People; College Squeeze; Reform and Single-Payer Plans, Overcoming Health Obstacles; Pilot Rescued by Rowers
• Mixed Signals on Economic Recovery; Weather Slows Taiwan Rescues; Extremist Militants Make Comeback in U.S.; Right-Wing Extremist Groups Growing; North Carolina Investigators Suspect Serial Killer; Wildfires Burn in California; Woman Vows to Read Entire Health Care Bill
• Fast Moving Wildfire in Santa Cruz; Tricks to Getting Final Extension on Unemployment Claims; Retail Sales Fall Flat; New Attacks Threatening Security Ahead Afghanistan Elections; New Offensive in Southern Afghanistan; Record Month of Foreclosures; Viewers Sound Off About Rick Pitino; More Americans Turning to Free Health Clinics; Rumors Swirling Around Health Care Reform; Foreclosure Packs One-Two Punch as Banks Walk Away From Seized Homes
• Fast-Moving Wildfire; GOP Gets an Earful; Pulse of the People on the Economy; Record Month of Foreclosures; Going after Afghan Drug Lords; Fact and Fiction about Health Care; Stocks Ready to Rally; Fast-Moving Wildfire; Coach Admits to Casual Sex


August 12, 2009
• President Obama Hands Out Presidential Medal of Freedom; 2009 Presidential Medal Of Freedom Ceremony; Hillary Clinton Makes Controversial Comments About U.S. Elections; Swastika Painted at Congressman's Office
• On the Fringe Line: Health Care Town Halls; 'Culture of Corruption' in Detroit; Holding Steady on Interest; Army Private Accused of Being Drug Cartel Hit Man; New Study Says More Than Half Of Health Care Spending Wasted; Horses Found Butchered and Sold For Food in South Florida
• Gibbs Responds to Town-Hall Protests; Citizens Weigh in on Health-Care Reform; Comparing U.S. Health Care to China's Health Care; Ad Campaign Drawing Attention in Washington
• Arlen Specter's Town Hall; Providing Affordable Health Care Insurance; The 20-Month Recession?; Health Care Road Trip Spurs Even More National Conversation; Tracking Your Web Searches; Electronic Haggling and Car Shopping; Urban Farming Could Be The Answer for Cities Like Detroit
• Into the Health Care Fray; Health Care Fact and Fiction; Afghanistan: Inside the Firefight; School Lunch Ads Make Point Using Obama's Daughters; Taiwan Struggles with Typhoon's Aftermath; Tropical Depression Could Become 1st Atlantic Hurricane; Study IDs Areas of Waste in Health Care
• Town Hall Blitz with Senator Grassley; White House Reception for Newly Appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor
• Town Hall Blitz in Iowa; President Obama's PR Offensive; Is the Recession Ending? Protecting Afghan Voters; Who Will be Covered?; Health Care Fact of Fiction; Can't Afford Health Insurance; Police U.S. Soldier is Cartel Hit Man; Pharmacy raided in Jackson Case; Town Hall Blitz in Iowa


August 11, 2009
• Health Care Town Hell; Smuggling Humans From Mexico
• Obama Health Care Town Hall; Health Care Reform: Fact and Fiction; Prescription for Change; Update on Phoenix Girl who was Gang- Raped; Crowds in an Uproar at Town Hall Meetings Across the Country
• Town-Hall Protests Unprecedented, Lawmakers Say; Obama Speaks to Town Hall about Health Care
• President's Town Hall on Health Care; Arlen Specter's Health Care Town Hall; Thousands Line up for Free Health Care; Triple-Digit Gas Mileage; Feds Raid Vegas Pharmacy
• Tough Questions for Arlen Specter; Free Health Care; President Obama Expects 'Vigorous' Debate at Town Hall; GM to Sell Cars Online; Typhoon Sweeps through Taiwan
• Arlen Specter Holds Town Hall Meeting in Pennsylvania Today; President Obama Travels to New Hampshire for Another Town Hall Meeting on Health Care; New Chevy Volt has Impressive Gas Mileage; Is Taliban Leader Baitullah Mehsud Dead?
• Pulse of the People on Health Care; Showdown in the Show-Me State; Shouting Down Specter; Helping the Uninsured; GM Selling Cars on EBay; Eunice Shriver Dies at 88; Covering the Illegals?; Specter's Health Care Town Hall


August 10, 2009
• Whale Beached in Florida Dies; Passenger on Stranded Flight Speaks Out; Discussion Over Health Care Heats Up Around the Country; Did White House Makes Deal with PhRMA?; Coroner's Report on Michael Jackson Completed Not Being Released; Are Americans Overmedicated and Turning to Illegal Substances To Satisfy Addiction?
• Corruption North of the Border; Health Reform Road Trip; Unhealthy Debate Over Health Care?; Taliban Not Losing; Passengers Stranded on Commuter Plane For Nine Hours; GM to Start Trial Run of Sales Via Ebay
• Obama to Remain Full Partner in Combating Mexican Drug Cartels; Mexican, Canadian, U.S. Leaders Meet; U.S., Canada, Mexico Wrap Up Summit; Maine Becoming a Front in Drug War
• North American Summit Held in Mexico; Toned-Down Town Hall; Taliban Gains Upper Hand; Stock Market rally Stalls; Health Care Debate Still Hot During Congressional Recess; Poll Indicates Democrats Losing Popularity, Republicans Not Gaining Any; Summit of "The Three Amigos"
• Health Care Town Halls; North American Summit; Crash in the Hudson; Professor: Health Care Reform Must Cover All, Reduce Cost Increases
• Public Anger Over Health Care Reform; Two Bodies Still Missing in Weekend's Plane-and-Helicopter Crash; Obama Meeting with Leaders of Canada and Mexico This Hour; Live Coverage of Health Care Town Hall Meeting in Missouri; Clinical Trials Started For Possible Swine Flu Vaccine; GM Starts Trial Period of Selling Cars on eBay Tomorrow; Unemployment Benefits Dwindling; Precautions Being Taken Against Swine Flu in Schools; China Experiements with Three-Dollar-a-Year Health Care Plan
• President Obama Heads to Mexico; Health Care in the Heartland; Bombings in Iraq; Recovery on the Hudson; U.S. Casualties in Afghanistan to Remain High


August 09, 2009
• Lawmaker Fires Back at Constituents Over Health Care; North American Summit Agenda: Bodies and Wreckage Pulled from Hudson River; Town Halls Over Health Care Turn Rowdy; The Politics of Health Care; Afghan Insurgents in the Crosshairs; Los Zetas: Mexico's Most Feared Drug Cartel
• North American Leaders' Summit; Politics of Health Care Reform; Journalist Freed by Taliban; Detroit Schools on the Skids
• New Campaign Launched to Fight Town Hall Disruptions; Obama to Attend Summit in Mexico; Bodies and Wreckage Pulled from Hudson; Typhoon Rakes Asia; Mexico's Drug Cartel
• NTSB Schedules Briefing on Air Crash; Is the Worst Over for the Economy?
• Bodies and Wreckage Pulled from Hudson River; Obama Heading to Mexico; Baking to Stop Foreclosures; Cash for Clunkers gets Extended


August 08, 2009
• Plane Collides with Tourist Helicopter; Sotomayor Sworn In; Funerals for Gym Shooting Victims; Town Hall Free-for-All
• Plane and Tourist Helicopter Collide; Obama Actively Pushing for Health Care Reform; Protesters Disrupt Town Hall Meetings; Professor Insists U.S. Must Engage North Korea
• Plane and Tourist Helicopter Collide; Sotomayor Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice
• Midair Collision Between Small Airplane and Tourist Helicopter; Mayor Bloomberg Holds Press Conference About Crash; Witnesses Recount What Happened
• Small Plane and Helicopter Collide Over the Hudson River
• Sonia Sotomayor Sworn in; The of New York's Spanish Harlem Residents Proud; Hurricane Felicia Fizzles; Central Java Firefight Kills Terrorist; Hudson River Helicopter Crash; John Edwards' Mistress Testifies
• Sonia Sotomayor Takes Oath as First Hispanic Supreme Court Justice; Democrats Accuse GOP of Orchestrating Shoutdowns at Town Hall Meetings; Hurricane Felicia Fizzles; Taliban Chief Believed Killed in Missile Strike
• Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be Sworn in as Supreme Court Justice; Town Hall Meeting Disrupted by Angry Crowds; Controversy Arises Over Former President Clinton's Visit to North Korea


August 07, 2009
• A Fallen Soldier's Mom Shares Her Son's Story; Sister of Pres. Kennedy in Critical Condition
• Town Hall Free-For-Alls; President Obama: 'The Worst May Be Behind Us'; Should You Junk Your Clunker?; Health Care Fraud a Forgotten Problem; Movie Director Hughes Dies; Two Rhode Island Doctors Slash Expenses By Cutting Costs; The Weekend to Save on Sales Tax; Leader of Pakistani Taliban Reportedly Dead
• Some Sectors of Economy Still Hiring; Cash for Clunkers Fueling Car Sales; Unemployment Rate Drops Slightly; CDC Makes Recommendations for Returning Students; Trying to Restore Dignity to Burr Oaks Cemetery; What Unemployment Numbers Mean For the White House; Town Halls Turn Violent
• Shoving and Shouting and Health Care Town Halls; White House Reaction to Jobless Numbers; Window Washer in Peril; Grading the President; July Jobless Rate Falls to 9.4 Percent; Program Targeting Street Violence in Baltimore; Health Care Fraud Drives Up Prices; Battle over Soldiers' Flame-Resistant Uniforms; Two Doctors Cut Costs to Give Patients More Time
• July Jobless Rate Falls to 9.4 Percent; Rowdy Health Care Town Hall; Contractors Complain of Slow Stimulus Fund Arrival; World's Longest Yard Sale; Director John Hughes Dies
• Top U.S. Commander Talks Strategy in Afghanistan; New Jobless Rate A Glimmer of Hope; Obama Extends Cash for Clunkers; Pakistan's Taliban Leader Reportedly Killed in U.S. Drone Attack; 654 Miles of Bargain Hunting This Weekend; Best Bargain at Tax-Free Holidays; Manson Murders Still Resonate 40 Years Later; Bringing Children From Afghanistan Solace
• New Jobless Numbers Better Than Expected; President Obama to Talk about the Economy; Taliban Leader Suspected to be Dead; Cash for Clunkers Program Extended; Hypothermia Can Help Cardiac Arrest Survivors; New Flu Guidelines for Schools; Flu Guidelines for Schools; Grading the President; Explosive Health Care Meeting; Trade Law May Ban Troops Protection; New Jobless Numbers


August 06, 2009
• Politics of Chaos: Who's Behind Health-Care Protests?; Sonia Sotomayor Confirmed by Senate; Soldier is Laid to Rest; Tattered U.S. Flag Gets Replaced As Soldier Returns Home
• E-mail, Economy Stamping out Post Office; 200 Days in Office; Judgment Day for Sotomayor; Grading the President and His Money Moves; Will Homeowners Be Underwater Soon?; Two Is the Loneliest Number In Condo Building To Yourself
• Contractors: Stimulus Money Too Slow; Killer's Blog Reveals Motivation for Shooting; The War Next Door: Los Zetas; Hawaii Preps for Possible Hurricane Strike; Is Former President Clinton Overshadowing His Wife?; 1 in 15 Hospitalized Kids Face Medical Error; Dollar Stores Thriving; Were There More Manson Victims?
• Health Care: Deal or No Deal?; Senate to Vote on Sotomayor Nomination; Cyberattack on Twitter; Sinking Home Values; How To Save Your Home; Examining Cuba's Health Care System; Grading the President; Adjusting After North Korea
• Jobless Numbers; Taking the Economy's Temperature; Grading the President; Edwards Campaign Investigation; Town Hall Meetings: Genuine Outrage or Coordinated Disruption?; Hurricane Felicia Heading toward Hawaii; China's Three-Dollar Health Care Experiment; Twitter on the Fritz; Combating Trachoma in Ethiopia; Dollar Store Delight
• Grading The President on His 200th Day In Office; Gym Club Killer Revealed His Plan on the Internet; Avoiding Hospital Mistakes; Pricey Planes on the Taxpayers' Dollar?; Some Giving Up on Stereotype of the American Dream; Are There Other Manson Family Victims?


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