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Tuesday, January 8, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Hagel Obama

Republican former Sen. Chuck Hagel and the nomination for secretary of defense. We’ll hear supporters and critics.

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Monday, January 7, 2013 | 10:00 AM
In this Dec. 5, 2012, photo, President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks about the "fiscal cliff" at the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers, in Washington. (AP)

On the coming debt ceiling battle, the President says he won’t be held hostage by Congress. But is there any constitutional way for him to avoid a standoff?

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Sen. John Barrasso, left, R-Wyo., talks with Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, who holds up his watch, near the Senate chambers after a vote on the fiscal cliff, on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013 in Washington. (AP)

Hammering out a deal. We’ve got the latest news and analysis from the fiscal cliff.

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Monday, December 31, 2012 | 10:00 AM
Red lights illuminate Pennsylvania Avenue as the U.S. Capitol glows in the twilight, in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, as talks continue on the looming fiscal cliff. (AP)

We’ll get the latest on the fast-approaching fiscal cliff.

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Monday, December 24, 2012 | 10:00 AM
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, enters a news conference to speak about the fiscal cliff on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. House GOP leaders abruptly canceled a vote on the Plan B measure Thursday night after they failed to round up enough votes for it to pass. (AP)

We’ll get the latest from the edge as the nation hurtles towards the fiscal cliff.

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 | 10:00 AM
National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP)

The political power of the NRA after Newtown. Will a massacre of children break the grip of the NRA?

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012 | 10:00 AM
Cliff Diving in Portugal. (AP)

Liberals on the fiscal cliff. The White House is negotiating tough. We’ll hear the liberal view of the cliff and its meaning.

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Thursday, November 29, 2012 | 10:00 AM
James Dresch of MND Partners Inc. works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. (AP)

Your tax breaks may be on the chopping block at the fiscal cliff. Home mortgage interest, state income tax and charitable deductions. We’ll add it all up.

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Friday, November 23, 2012 | 10:00 AM
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, right, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, left, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012. (AP)

An explosive week for Israel and Gaza. President Obama, home from Asia. Lawmakers on the fiscal cliff. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Friday, November 16, 2012 | 10:00 AM
A rocket launched by Palestinian militants towards Israel makes its way from the northern Gaza Strip, seen from the Israel Gaza Border, southern Israel, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. (AP)

Petraeus and scandal. Obama faces the press. Benghazi hearings. Israel pounds Hamas. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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ONPOINT
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May 23, 2013
In this 2010 photo, a sign announcing the acceptance of electronic Benefit Transfer cards is seen at a farmers market in Roseville, Calif. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

Congress says food stamps are costing the country too much and debating big cuts. One in every seven Americans is using them to eat. What’s going on?

May 23, 2013
In this 2011 photo, U.S. Navy sailors participate in intense 10-minute workout intervals. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael K. McNabb/U.S. Navy)

Rock-hard bodies in a fraction of the time. We’ll look at the 7-minute workout, and the promises of high-intensity exercise.

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May 22, 2013
A woman carries her child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

After Oklahoma’s giant twister, does Tornado Alley need to change the way it builds and lives in the age of superstorms?

 
May 22, 2013
Apple CEO Tim Cook is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, prior to testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations hearing. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Apple in the hot seat. Lawmakers say the company dodged billions in taxes on overseas profits. We’ll look at the world of off shore tax escapes.

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Is American Coming Undone?
Thursday, May 23, 2013

New York writer George Packer says yes. He reflected on the nation’s core institutions failing the American people.

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WIRED’s Bill Wasik On The Henry Fords Of Today
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

He talked about how Google and Tesla are paving the way of innovation and how technological development is related not only to creativity but to environmental responsibility.

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Switching Shows For Our Second Hour Today
Friday, May 17, 2013

Adventures in live radio. Richard Snow, our guest for our show on Henry Ford, was held up — possibly by a faulty Model T? — so we’re running a terrific archive show on great quotations.

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