Week in the News

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June 12, 2009

Bullet strikes are seen in one of the doors to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., after a shooting left a security officer dead and the gunman wounded. — Bullet strikes are seen in one of the doors to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., after a shooting left a security officer dead and the gunman wounded on Thursday, June 11, 2009. (AP)

News all over this week. In Iran, a clamor for change as voters pour into the polls. In Detroit, Italy’s Fiat now owns Chrysler. On Wall Street, the big money guys squirm at the idea of executive pay curbs.
In Green Bay, Wisconsin, President Obama says it’s now-or-never time for health care reform. In Bermuda and the Pacific islands of Palau, Guantanamo prisoners are moving in.
And in Washington, a lone shooter opens fire at the Holocaust Museum — and sparks wider concern over homegrown terrorism.
This hour, On Point: Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
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Joining us from Chicago is Laura Washington, columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a professor at DePaul University in Chicago.
From New York we're joined by Jim Ellis, assistant managing editor at BusinessWeek.
Jack Beatty, On Point news analyst and senior editor at The Atlantic.

This program aired on June 12, 2009.

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