NPR 2012-07-14

The fallout from GP Morgan's failed hedging startegy is nearly three times worth than initially estimated, the bank is now reporting a 5.8 billion dollar trading loss. The conference called investors, CEO James Dimon says the blood cuts deep. Trading

NPR 2012-07-13

Wells Fargo, the country's fourth largest bank has agreed to pay 175 million dollars to settle charges that violated fair lending laws during the housing boom. Deputy Attorney General James Cole says the bank's practices affected minorities in 36 sta

NPR 2012-07-12

From NPR news in Washington, I'm Lakshmi,Singh. The Republicans led house had just voted to repeal the affordable healthcare act.President Obama signature domestic legistation. But the vote is widely considered Symbolic and NPR's C reports GOP wants

NPR 2012-07-11

The fight over taxes is again playing out on the campaign trail.President Obama went to the swing state of Iowa where he argued that Bush-era tax cut should be extended another year for low and middle income earners but not for the wealthiest in Amer

NPR 2012-07-02

Millions of people in eastern states are still without electricity in a heat wave after major storms swept the region Friday night. Utilities warn it may be days before power is restored to everyone. But NPRs Alison Keyes reports some people are stic

NPR 2012-07-03

GlaxoSmithKline is settling a historic health care fraud case for three billion dollars. The drugmaker has agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor criminal charges that it promoted its drugs for unauthorized uses and failed to disclose to pertinent inf

NPR 2012-07-04

More people are returning to their homes in Colorado, Springs; however, some are finding that their homes have been reduced to ashes. The Waldo Canyon fire destroyed hundreds of homes. The blaze is said to be about 70% contained. Two members of the p

NPR 2012-07-05

Frustration is growing from Virginia to Indiana, where more than a million homes and businesses have been enduring a heat wave without electricity since last Fridays thunderstorms. Utility companies say theyre working as fast as they can to get power

NPR 2012-07-06

Hundreds of thousands of people are now going on a week without electricity in parts of the mid west and mid Atlantic,which is baking under 19 plus degree temperatures.Relieved workers in west Virginia,the hotest heat state in the region,are struggli

NPR 2012-07-07

The June job's report shows unemployment holding steady at 8.2%. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney seizing on that state, saying that rate remains unacceptably high. As . public radio Josh . Reports Romney was quick to blame president Oba

NPR 2012-07-08

This is NPR News in Washington I'm Korva Coleman. A heat wave has been pressing the states from Iowa to New Jersy. Tempretures are soaring to the triple digit. Or some people in mid-Atlantic states are still waiting for air conditioning. This far, th

NPR 2012-07-09

Foreign donors have promised 16 billion dollars in aid to Afghanistan over the next four years. It's intended to help that country stabilize after foreign troops leave in 2014. As NPR's Jim Hawk reports. Secretary of State Hillary Radom Clinton is jo

NPR 2012-07-10

Republicans are firing back president Obama after he accused the GOP of holding middle link of Americans quoted hostage.He said the Bush air tax cut should be extended for everyone including wealthier Americans.They say failure to do so will sharply

NPR 2012-07-17

A fierce race for the White House is playing out on the campaign trail today for the 8th time this year. President Obama is in a battleground state of Ohio where he addressed supporters in Cincinnati a short time ago. The problem is we got a stalemat

NPR 2012-07-16

President Obama says Washington feels as broken now as the day he took office in 2009. NPR's Allison Keyes reports the president's comments come as polls show him to be in a tight race with his Republican opponent. President Obama says he won't criti

NPR 2012-07-18

The presidential candidates are trading bards today around outsourcing and in charges of cronyism. Today President Obama's campaigning is in Texas, whose governor recently joined other republican governors in rejecting the affordable care acts Medica

NPR 2012-07-19

Tepid hiring, modest growth, that's the economic picture being revealed on the Federal Reserve Survey, officially known as the Beige Book. The economy expanded in June and early July in several parts of the country, but overall growth pulled back. Th

NPR 2012-07-21

Colorado police are confirming at least 12 were killed; 59 others were wounded in a mass shooting overnight in Aurora. Police chief Daniel Oats says 24 years old suspect James Holmes charged into the theater where movie goers gathered to watch new Ba

NPR 2012-07-22

Police have triggered a controlled explosion at the apartment of James Holmes. He's the man suspected in the mass shooting at the Aurora Colorado movie theater. Police say the apartment is filled with chemicals, explosive material and trip wires. Kir

NPR 2012-07-23

Residents of the Colorado city of Aurora are coming to gather to grieve for those killed in the deadly rampage at a theater on Friday. President Obama will visit with families of the victims and faith leaders will lead an evening vigil. Colorado Publ