To the Point

Despite America's obesity epidemic, recent studies say tens of millions of people, including children, go hungry.  What's the Obama Administration doing?  What can you do?  Is “food insecurity” a matter of politics as well as economics? Also, President Obama meets with India's Prime Minister Singh, and Europe's soccer scandal.

Existing technology could make air travel faster, more fuel efficient and cheaper, but the control system won't be updated until 2025.  We hear why and what passengers can expect in the meantime. Also, getting healthcare reform through the Senate, and US bases and escalating tensions between Colombia and Venezuela.

The Fort Hood shootings have raised disturbing questions about Islamic radicalism in the US military. What about Evangelical Christianity? Does it pose its own kind of dangers, especially with US troops on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan?  Also, the first EU president, and Oprah Winfrey calls it quits — at the same time she plans for the future.

Democrats finally have a healthcare reform bill they want to get to the Senate floor before next week's Thanksgiving vacation. Republicans will use all available parliamentary maneuvers to prevent that from happening. We hear how the bill compares to the House version and assess its chances.  Also, Afghan President Karzai's inauguration, and a judge says the disaster following Hurricane Katrina was man made.  Will the federal government be on the hook for billions in damages?

The international consensus is that next month's meeting in Copenhagen will not produce the expected binding agreement for action on Global Warming. What happened to the sense of urgency? Can President Obama take the lead without both houses of Congress? Also, the Attorney General is grilled about his decision on 9/11 trials, and the President and the Secretary of State on what's next for Afghanistan.

To make good on his promise to close Guantanamo Bay, President Obama needs to re-locate more than 200 prisoners. One likely location in northwestern Illinois has set off a political firestorm, and there's ongoing dispute over how to clear up all those cases. Also, the President's trip to China, and British soldiers are ordered to pay off the Taliban.

Bill Clinton won the White House by never forgetting that "it's the economy, stupid."  Now unemployment looms as big or bigger for Barack Obama than healthcare or climate change. What more can the government to do create jobs? Can it happen before next year's mid-term elections? Also, President Obama's town-hall meeting in Shanghai, and Sarah Palin, the book the Presidency and the polls.

Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed,

As President Obama visits Asia, the US is still in deep trouble while China is riding high. What does America want, and what can it provide in the newest world order? Also, the US ambassador to Afghanistan says hold that surge, and chimpanzees, human beings and the genetics of speech.

Political divisions inside Iran appear to be threatening a nuclear deal with the West, even though both Iranian factions may want it to happen. We ask, what are its chances…and what's liable to happen if it doesn't go through?  Also, paying tribute to America's veterans, and the ravages of PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.