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August 26, 2009
• Remembering "The Lion of the Senate," Storm North of Puerto Rico Has Tropical Storm Potential; Discovery's Launch Date Pushed Back to Friday; Vice President Biden Remembers Longtime Friend Senator Kennedy
• Remembering "The Lion of the Senate"


August 25, 2009
• What Killed Michael Jackson?; The Power of Propofol
• California Government Jobs Escape Pain Felt in Private Sector; The High Price of Health Care; Massive Afghanistan Bomb; McCain's Town Hall
• Swine Flu Projected to be Worse in Fall; Some Optimism Appearing on Wall Street; Coroner: Lethal Dose of Drug Killed Jackson; Use of Restraint for Special Needs Kids Raises Concerns
• Auto Industry Bracing for Hangover; Frightening Predictions About Swine Flu; Did CIA Break the Law?; Banking on Bernanke
• Washington Bleeds Red Ink; Banking on Bernanke; Coroner Confirms Michael Jackson Died From Overdose; Cost of Clunkers
• Michael Jackson's Death Investigation; Government Predicts Flu Could Sicken 30 to 50 Percent; Model Wins Lawsuit to Reveal Critical Blogger's ID
• Banking on Bernanke; Clunker Deadline Extended; H1N1 Flu Fears, Jackson Death Investigation; Milwaukee Mayor Back at Work


August 24, 2009
• New CIA Torture Allegations Surface; Castro's Comeback?; MacAskill Defends His Decision to Release Lockerbie Bomber; Dr. Murray Admits to Administering Propofol to Michael Jackson; New Information on CIA Interrogation Techniques Raise Questions, Eyebrows; British Public Service Announcement Gaining Notoriety
• Asking Questions With a Gun and Drill; Wildfires in Greece; Last Day for Cash for Clunkers; Concerns About Swine Flu Rise With Start of School; Declassified CIA Document Give Many Pause About Interrogation Tactics; Holder to Appoint a Special Prosecutor; The Upsides of New Orleans; Attack Aimed at Heart of Pakistani Leadership Foiled
• Schools Suffer from Budget Shortfalls; Will Public Option be Dropped from Health Reform?; Signs of Recovery on Wall Street; Manhunt on for Texas Doctor's Killers; Candidates Contest Afghanistan Presidential Election; Swine Flu Vaccine Being Readied; Malaysian Woman's Caning Sentence Lifted Temporarily; S. African Female Runner's Gender Questioned; Justice Dept.: Reopen CIA Prisoner Abuse Cases
• Texas Doctor Murdered in Own Home; Obama Approves Creation of High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group; Cash for Clunkers Coming to an End; Public Option Debate Rages On; More U.S. Troops for Afghanistan; Alleged Election Irregularities in Afghanistan; Bomber Release Fallout; Out of Work, Out of Benefits; The Toll of War
• CIA Interrogation Tactics; More U.S. Troops to Afghanistan?; Clunkers on the Clock; No Social Security Cost of Living for 2 Years; New Orleans Riverfront Revitalization Project Planned; Video Depicts Healthy Castro
• CIA's Terror Tactics; Reality Show Contestant and Suspect in Wife's Death Found Hanged; Massive Fires Burn Across Greece; End of the Road for Cash for Clunkers; MacAskill Defends Decision to Release Lockerbie Bomber in Scottish Parliament Session; Hurricane Bill's Victims; The Cushion and Benefits New Orleans Provides in Current State; Life After Unemployment Benefits
• CIA Terror Tactics; Cash for Clunkers Ends; Massive Fires Burning Across Greece; Joint Chiefs of Staff Says Situation in Afghanistan is 'Deteriorating; Rumors of Widespread Election Fraud in Afghanistan Coming Out; MacAskill Defends His Decision in Emergency Meeting of Scottish Parliament; Massive Terrorist Crackdown in Pakistan; New Pictures Show Fidel Castro Looking Healthier; Public Health Care Option Debate; Alleged Secret of the CIA


August 23, 2009
• Suspected Killer Found Dead; CIA Report to Detail Abuses in Secret Prisons; Ripple Effect of Gun Violence in Chicago; Texting and Driving Don't Mix
• First Family on Vacation; Chicago's Deadly Streets; Tackling Chicago Violence Nationally
• Visitors Swept Out to Sea at Acadia; Malaysian Woman to be Caned for Drinking Alcohol; Obama Taking Time off; Clunkers Program to End on Monday; Iran Detainees Claim Rape
• Cash for Clunkers Deadline Tomorrow: Hurricane Bill Affects Maine; Pakistan Claims It Stopped Terror Attacks


August 22, 2009
• Obama's Rating on Health Care Deflates; FBI Chief Blasts Scottish Justice Secretary; Man Charges U.S. Government of Profiling; Gay Iraqis Tortured, Killed; Chicago's Killer Town
• Ripple Effect of Gun Violence; Embedded with Ceasefire Illinois; Confronting a Crime Epidemic; Interview With Education Secretary Duncan
• The Truth About Health Care Reform; Details of Hurricane Bill
• Hurricane Bill Heads for East Coast; North and South Koreans to Meet Tomorrow; Pan Am Flight 103 Bomber Freed; Healthcare Reform
• Hurricane Bill Heads for East Coast; President Obama and Family to Visit Martha's Vineyard; Release of Lockerbie Bomber Causes International Uproar
• Hurricane Bill; Prison Riot; Health Care Plan Resistance; Virginia Town Halls; Ruthless Debt Collectors
• Town Hall Raw: Town Hall Meetings Continue Through Congressional Recess
• Tracking Hurricane Bill; Inmates Start Fires at a Kentucky Prison During a Riot; President Obama Responds to Critics of Health Care Reform; Taliban Attacks Voters in Afghanistan
• Lockerbie Terrorist Given Hero's Welcome; Health Care Debate Continues Through Congressional August Recess; Taliban Threatening Afghanistan voters


August 21, 2009
• Terrorist Returns Home to Hero's Welcome; Politics of Terror; Tom Ridge Pressured to Raise Terror Alert
• Drug Cartels Expand Across U.S.; '30 Second Pitch'; Cash for Clunkers Runs Out of Gas on Monday; CNN Hero; A Family's Critical Condition
• Hurricane Bill Headed for East Coast; Victims' Families Outraged Over Terrorist's Release; Ridge Claims Pressure to Raise Alert Before '04 Election; Bernanke: Economy May Grow Soon; Asia Seeing Economic Recovery Signs; Search for Ex in Model's Death; V.A. Has Backlog of Disability Claims; U.S. Optimistic About Afghanistan Election;
• Bracing for Hurricane Bill; Deadly Days in Baghdad; Hopes and Fears of Afghans; Conclusions about Clunkers; U.S. Soldiers Charged; Creeping Credit Card Fees; Chicago's Deadly Streets; Two-Person Police Force Saved
• Consultation on Health Care; Politics and the Terror Alert
• Cash for Clunkers Ending Monday; Stunning Allegations from Former Bush Cabinet Member; Iraqis Blaming Their Own; Existing Home Sales in July Posted Largest Monthly Increase in a Decade; Arrest Warrant Issued for Reality TV Contestant; Labor Day Deals Galore; Murder and Dismemberment Case Shocks Phoenix Residents
• Politics & the Terror Alert; Iraq's Stepped-Up Security?; Cash For Clunker's Final Countdown; President Courts Left and Right; New York Stock Exchange Has First-Ever Casual Friday; Tom Ridge Claims Politics behind Security Threat Levels; Election Results Being Counted in Afghanistan


August 20, 2009
• Pan Am 103 Bomber Arrives in Tripoli; U.S. Tightens Offshore Financial Loopholes; Emotional Aftermath for a Mother of Pan Am 103 Victim; Interview with John Madden
• 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


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