From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jim Howard. At least 13 people are dead in anti-Israeli protests along the Lebanese and Syrian borders and in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The violence comes on a day called Nakba, the annual observa

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jim Howard. After days of warnings, the Army Corps of Engineers at this hour is opening the spillway in Morganza, Louisiana. It hopes to move or lower the level of the Mississippi River and save Baton Rouge and New Or

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. More neighborhoods are taking on water in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where Governor Haley Barbour is sounding this warning. You need to go on and get out now while you can. With the Mississippi River still

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Obama wants two more years out of FBI Director Robert Mueller, whose 10-year term expires this September 4. He plans to ask Congress to let Mueller stay on the job longer because of what he de

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The burgeoning Mississippi River is forcing residents in the poverty-stricken delta to run for higher ground. Teresa Welsh, a mother of three, says she's trying to keep it together. Knowing full well, her home will go underwater before the river cres

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President Obama was on the US-Mexican border today in an effort to create public pressure on Congress to try again to pass an immigration overhaul bill. NPR's Mara Liasson reports. President Obama promised Hispanic voters in 2008 that he would pass a

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Nancy Lyons. NATO is denying it was trying to kill the Gaddafi family after reports that some members died in an air strike. Teri Schultz reports in the politically charged incident. NATO issued an unusual early morni

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President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met for more than 90 minutes at the White House today. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports it was a tense discussion on how to begin peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. President

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One million dollars cash bail has been set for former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. A grand jury in New York has indicted him after a hotel maid accused him of sexual assault. Strauss-Kahn has been jailed since the weekend and asked to be release

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he believes somebody in Pakistan security establishment, maybe someone who's retired or a low-level employee, was aware that Osama bin Laden was hiding in the country for years, but as NPR's Tom Bowman reports, Gat

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. The Mississippi River at Natchez is now closed to shipping traffic. The Coast Guard made the move to avoid putting more stress on the swollen river's levees, but it also closes off the major artery for

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A bit of good news for residents of Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin this afternoon: Flood level projections have been lower slightly. But as NPR's Greg Allen reports from Baton Rouge, people who live along the Mississippi River and its bayous are begin

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Nancy Lyons. Volunteers are doing what they can to help victims of the massive tornadoes that swept across the South this week, killing more than 330 people. Walt Maddox is mayor of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, one of the har

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Barack Obama, less than 24 hours after announcing the death of Osama bin Laden, says this is a good day. The world is safer. It is a better place because of the death of Osama bin Laden. The p

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. CIA analysts are going through documents and other information taken from the raided compound in Pakistan where US special operations team killed Osama bin Laden. NPR's Rachel Martin says the data could

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President Obama will not release photos of Osama bin Ladens body more than two days after the al-Qaeda leader was killed by US forces in Pakistan. NPRs Ari Shapiro reports the president decided that the photos graphic nature could create national sec

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From NPR News in Washington, Im Lakshmi Singh. Members of the group that took out Osama bin Laden is expected to be thanked personally by President Obama. The White House says the president plans to travel to Fort Campbell, Kentucky tomorrow to meet

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US stocks still in positive territory with the jobs market posting robust gains. The Labor Department says the economy picked up a more-than-expected 244,000 positions in April. NPR's John Ydstie reports all of the net job growth came in the private

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jamie Mclntyre. The Pentagon today released five unremarkable videos of Osama bin Laden. Unremarkable except for the fact that they were bin Laden home videos, captured by US Navy SEALs, who raided his compound and sh

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From President Obama's national security advisor, a benign evaluation of how much Pakistan knew about bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad. We don't have evidence at this point that the political, military and intelligence leadership of Pakistan knew ab

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