NPR 2010-01-10

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

NPR 2010-01-11

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

NPR 2010-01-12

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

NPR 2010-01-13

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

NPR 2010-01-03

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. President Obama says an al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen was apparently behind the failed attempt to blow up a jetliner bounded for Detroit last week. Mr. Obama said today he thinks about the nation's securi

NPR 2010-01-04

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. The United States and Britain have shut down their embassies in Yemen in light of what President Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan called alive and active threat of Al-Qaeda attacks

NPR 2010-01-06

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. The US Intelligence Community in Afghanistan has been sharply criticized by one of its own. Major General Michael Flynn, a Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence for the US and NATO in Afghanistan, says

NPR 2010-01-16

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. International aid is being distributed to more earthquake survivors in Haiti, but getting to the masses with food, aid and medical services is still difficult. An estimated 3 million people, 1/3 of Hait

NPR 2010-01-14

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Carol Van Dam. With thousands feared dead from yesterdays massive earthquake in Haiti, the Pentagon is gearing up to send thousands of troops, cargo planes and ships to help the battered nation. President Obama promis

NPR 2010-01-09

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The man accused of trying to blow up an airliner en route to Detroit on Christmas Day pleaded not guilty in federal court this afternoon. Sarah Hewlett of Michigan Radio reports. Umar Farouk Abdulmutall

NPR 2010-01-07

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. The man accused of the deadly shooting at Washington's Holocaust Museum in June has died. 89-year-old James von Brunn died today at the federal prison in North Carolina. The self-declared white supremac

NPR 2010-01-23

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Obama is predicting a fight over financial regulatory reform at a town hall meeting in Elyria, Ohio today. The president said he knows there will be heavy opposition to his plan to tighten rul

NPR 2010-01-21

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. A huge aftershock rocked Port-au-Prince, Haiti today. Frightened people ran screamingly into the streets. NPR's Carrie Kahn is in the Haitian capital and says people won't be able to take refuge in dama

NPR 2010-01-20

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. The US military says another airport will open in Haiti by tomorrow. This will allow rescue teams to bring more help into the earthquake-stricken nation. Supplies have been backed up at the single airpo

NPR 2010-01-19

Thousands of Haitian earthquake survivors have been trying to leave Port-Au-Prince today after giving up on waiting for emergency food and water there. Most buses out are packed and some have reportedly doubled their fares. The United Nations World F

NPR 2010-01-18

From NPR News in Washington, I am Lakshmi Singh. Five days after the earthquake in Haiti, search and rescue teams continue to look for survivors. NPR's Jackie Northam is traveling with a rescue convoy about 40 miles outside the Haitian capital. She s

NPR 2010-01-17

From NPR News, in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Frustration is mounting in the Haitian capital where millions of earthquake survivors are spending a fourth day without fresh food, water or medicine. Many are also working alongside international resc

NPR 2010-01-01

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks in Afghanistan Wednesday including the one that killed eight Americans inside a US intelligence base in southeastern Khost province. Seven of

NPR 2010-01-02

President Obama says an al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen was apparently behind the failed attempt to blow up a jetliner bounded for Detroit last week. Mr. Obama said today he thinks about the nation's security every moment of every day. NPR's Renita Jablo

NPR 2010-01-05

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. A man with a shot gun walked into the lobby of the Federal Courthouse in downtown Las Vegas this morning and opened fire, killing one court officer and seriously wounding another. The gunman fled the bu