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Monday, May 21, 2012 | 10:00 am
e temple of Parthenon is silhouetted against a cloudy sunset atop the Acropolis hill in Athens, Thursday May 17 2012. Fitch ratings agency downgraded debt-crippled Greece deeper into junk territory on Thursday, warning of a "probable" Greek exit from the euro currency union if new national elections next month produce an anti-bailout government. Fitch said it had cut Greece's rating by one notch, from B- to CCC, the lowest possible grade for a country that is not in default. (AP)

The threat from Greece to Europe and the world economy. Your economy.

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Friday, May 18, 2012 | 10:00 am
A demonstrator hit a pot during a protest to mark the anniversary of the "Indignados" movement in Sol square, Madrid, Spain, Tuesday May 15, 2012. Spaniards angered by increasingly grim economic prospects and unemployment hitting one out of every four citizens protested in droves in the nation's largest cities, marking the one-year anniversary of a spontaneous movement that inspired similar anti-authority demonstrations across the planet. (AP)

JP Morgan loses it. Europe wobbles. Facebook fever. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Friday, May 11, 2012 | 10:00 am
Sen. Richard Lugar leaves following a concession speech Tuesday, May 8, 2012, in Indianapolis. Lugar lost his Republican Senate primary on Tuesday to state Treasurer Richard Mourdock. (AP)

President Obama backs gay marriage. Big elections shake Europe. A double-agent and Al Qaeda. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind on the headlines.

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012 | 10:00 am
This undated file photo released by Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Interior on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010, in a combination of two photos which they say both show bomb maker suspect Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. Al-Asiri constructed the first underwear bomb and two others that al-Qaida built into printer cartridges and shipped to the U.S. on cargo planes in 2010. U.S. bomb experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida improvised explosive device, a top Obama administration counterterrorism official said Tuesday, to determine if it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane. (AP)

The CIA says it’s stopped an al-Qaida plot to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner. We’ll go deep on how they spotted the plot and the bomb threat now.

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012 | 10:00 am
Supporters of Socialist candidate Francois Hollande celebrate his victory in the second round of French presidential elections at Bastille Square in Paris, France, Sunday, May 6, 2012. (AP)

France and Greece vote out austerity. We’ll look at what their elections mean for Europe’s debt crisis and the world.

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Friday, May 4, 2012 | 10:00 am
Police push back protesters near a banner that reads "Happy May Day," Tuesday, May 1, 2012, during May Day protests in downtown Seattle. Hundreds of activists across the U.S. joined the worldwide May Day protests on Tuesday, with Occupy Wall Street members in several cities leading demonstrations against major financial institutions. (AP)

The U.S. gives up China’s barefoot lawyer. President Obama in Afghanistan. “Occupy” is back. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Tuesday, May 1, 2012 | 10:00 am
This file image made from video posted to YouTube April 27, 2012 by by overseas Chinese news site Boxun.com, shows blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell arrived early Sunday, April 29 in Beijing on a hastily arranged trip as problems from the escape of a blind legal activist to possible new arms sales to Taiwan threaten to derail fragile U.S.-China co-operation. His trip comes after activist Chen Guangcheng escaped from house arrest in his rural village (AP)

Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng makes a daring escape. We’ll examine his fate and impact on U.S.-China relations.

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Monday, April 30, 2012 | 10:00 am
American economy Nobel Prize laureate Paul Krugman talks to journalists during a news conference before being awarded an Honoris Causa degree by Lisbon University, Lisbon Technical University and Lisbon Nova University Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 in Lisbon. (AP)

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman says we’re in an economic depression and we’ve got to act to end it. He joins us.

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Friday, April 27, 2012 | 10:00 am
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney takes the stage at an election night rally in Manchester, N.H., Tuesday, April 24, 2012. (AP)

Romney sweeps. Arizona on trial. Murdoch in trouble. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012 | 11:00 am
Etgar Keret (Moshe Shai)

Etgar Keret has been called the Kafka, the Vonnegut, the Woody Allen of Israel. He’s with us.

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Friday, April 20, 2012 | 10:00 am
The Space shuttle Discovery, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, flying over Washington skyline, including the Washington Monument, as seen from a NASA T-38 aircraft, Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Discovery, the longest-serving orbiter will be placed to its new home, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. (AP)

A Secret Service prostitution scandal. A Taliban push in Afghanistan. Shareholders say “no” to a big CEO pay package. Our news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Friday, April 13, 2012 | 10:00 am
South Korean officials of the Incheon Maritime Police Agency monitor a situation room while on high alert in preparation for North Korea's planned launch of a Unha-3 rocket, in Incheon, South Korea, Thursday, April 12, 2012. (AP)

George Zimmerman, charged with murder. Santorum throws in the towel. All eyes on a rocket in North Korea. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Thursday, April 12, 2012 | 11:00 am
In this March 13, 2012 file photo, Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai attends the closing session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, China. (AP)

A top official in China stripped of his posts. A political rift opens in China’s leadership. We look at the biggest crisis in Chinese politics since Tiananmen.

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012 | 10:00 am
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez holds a map of the Americas during a session of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, ALBA, trade block at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. (AP)

Does the American hemisphere – North, South, Central – still hold together? We’ll preview this weekend’s big summit of the Americas in Colombia.

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Friday, April 6, 2012 | 10:00 am
Syrian youth stand in a building damaged by tank shells in a neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, after a raid by Syrian troops killed several rebels and civilians Thursday, April 5, 2012. (AP)

Romney rules. Obama says “social Darwinism.” The U.S. will pay rebels in Syria. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Friday, March 30, 2012 | 10:00 am
Amy Brighton from Medina, Ohio, who opposes health care reform, rallies in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 27, 2012, as the court continues arguments on the health care law signed by President Barack Obama. (AP)

Health care and the high court. A JetBlue freak-out. The Trayvon Martin story grows. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Friday, March 23, 2012 | 10:00 am
Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum holds an Etch A Sketch as he speaks to USAA employees during a campaign stop, Thursday, March 22, 2012, in San Antonio. (AP)

Mitt Romney’s Etch-a-Sketch. Energy issues front and center. Trayvon Martin. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012 | 10:00 am
The Colosseum. (Sebastian Bergmann/Flickr)

A new argument that a country’s ultimate success, or failure, is tied to how the average person does. Doesn’t matter if it’s ancient Rome, Venice, China, or the U.S.A.

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Friday, March 16, 2012 | 11:00 am
Danielle McElduff, 19, right, smiles as she and her sisters Lauren McElduff, 15, left, and Aidan McElduff, 16, wait for the start of the St. Patrick's Day Parade Thursday, March 17, 2011 on Fifth Avenue in New York. The sisters are from Cornwall, New York. (AP)

For St. Patrick’s Day, we’ll look at the “Irish way” of American immigration.

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Friday, March 16, 2012 | 10:00 am
A U.S. Marine watches as an Osprey carrying Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrives at Forward Operating Base Shukvani, Afghanistan, Wednesday, march 14, 2012. Panetta is scheduled to meet with President Karzai during his two-day visit to Afghanistan. (AP)

Afghanistan after the massacre. Santorum takes Dixie. Goldman Sachs takes a punch. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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May 21, 2012
e temple of Parthenon is silhouetted against a cloudy sunset atop the Acropolis hill in Athens, Thursday May 17 2012. Fitch ratings agency downgraded debt-crippled Greece deeper into junk territory on Thursday, warning of a "probable" Greek exit from the euro currency union if new national elections next month produce an anti-bailout government. Fitch said it had cut Greece's rating by one notch, from B- to CCC, the lowest possible grade for a country that is not in default. (AP)

The threat from Greece to Europe and the world economy. Your economy.

May 21, 2012
A nurse holds a baby in the nursery of the Pennsylvania Hospital in this 1930 photo. The country has reached a historic tipping point -- with minority births constituting more than half of all births, the U.S. Census Bureau reported this month. (AP)

A majority minority births now in the USA. We’ll ask what that means.

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A demonstrator hit a pot during a protest to mark the anniversary of the "Indignados" movement in Sol square, Madrid, Spain, Tuesday May 15, 2012. Spaniards angered by increasingly grim economic prospects and unemployment hitting one out of every four citizens protested in droves in the nation's largest cities, marking the one-year anniversary of a spontaneous movement that inspired similar anti-authority demonstrations across the planet. (AP)

JP Morgan loses it. Europe wobbles. Facebook fever. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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