President Obama has met with the bipartisan leadership of Congress at the White House. They discussed financial re-regulation legislation. As NPRs Mara Liasson reports, the parties sound as though they are moving farther apart, not closer together on
President Obama is pledging 100% commitment to the future of NASA including a manned mission to Mars and back by the mid-2030s, but the president says itll mean a significant departure from the old way of doing business. At the Kennedy Space Center i
President Obama plans to get a close-up look at the oil clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico. The White House says the president plans to head south tomorrow, but aides are not saying exactly where or what time Mr.Obama plans to arrive. The news came as Pr
Law enforcement officials who are investigating car bombing attempt in New York City tell NPR they believe the evidence is starting to point to an international plot. NPR's Dina Temple-Raston reports. Two people close to the case say they believe tha
President Obama congratulated Iraqis for coming out to vote in todays parliamentary elections in spite of violence by insurgents that killed at least 38 people. That's the sound of the morning call to prayer during voting this morning at a Baghdad po
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A purported videotape of the Jordanian man who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack has been released. Today Al-Jazeera Television broadcast the tape, in which the double agent called for atta
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. China has surpassed Germany as the world's largest exporter after a more-than-17% surge in 2009. Critics in the U.S. and other nations have complained that China's export success was bolstered in part b
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. A federal trial is underway in San Francisco to determine whether the US Constitution bars states from outlawing same-sex marriages. The proceedings began in controversy as the US Supreme Court weighed
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Carol Van Dam. Federal regulator sued Bank of America today, accusing the bank of failing to disclose what it calls staggering financial losses at Merrill Lynch before a merger of the company was approved. The suit fi
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Carol Van Dam. President Obama's plan to create more jobs could cost around 100 billion dollars. That's according to White House spokesman Robert Gibbs who appeared on CNN's State of the Union today. We wanna add infr
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. President Obama says the new federal budget proposal he has sent Congress today would bring down the massive budget deficit steadily over the next decade. But Mr. Obama says the budget includes measures
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. President Obama is in New Hampshire to push his economic agenda. Speaking in Nashua last hour, he unveiled his plan to create jobs. And we're gonna start where most new jobs start with small businesses.
From NPR News in Washington, Im Korva Coleman. Attorney General Eric Holder says he decided to charge the suspect in civilian court in the failed plot to bomb a jet on Christmas Day over Detroit. Holder's remarks about the case are on a letter sent t
From NPR News in Washington, Im Lakshmi Singh. Ten US missionaries in Haiti have been charged with child kidnapping and criminal association. A deputy prosecutor in Haiti announced today that the group is accused of trying to take children illegally
New York City police are searching for a white man in his 40s who may have been behind a failed car bombing in Times Square last night. They're poring over hundreds of hours of video surveillance from the area. The device was found in a Nissan Pathfi
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A popular sound in the nation's capital where snow blowers are hard at work as white stuff keeps falling. Forecasters say the winter storm blanketing the Mid-Atlantic States could be the biggest in mode
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Police on the scene of today's deadly explosion in Middletown, Connecticut are asking surrounding communities for help. They are bracing for mass casualties that may include at least two deaths and as m
From NPR News in Washington, Im Craig Windham. Veteran Democratic Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania has died. Murtha, who was 77, has been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery. NPRs Andrea Seabrook says Murtha represented his Pennsy
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. President Obama met with Republican and Democratic lawmakers at the White House today. They discussed job creation programs, health care and cutting the deficit. I'm gonna continue to seek the best idea
From NPR News in Washington, Im Giles Snyder Authorities are urging people to stay off the roads in parts of the mid-Atlantic region. Blowing snow is keeping visibility to a minimum. Pennsylvanias governor has shut down large parts of three major hig