NPR 2009-10-31

One day after a rosy outlook sent stocks up more than 2%, Wall Street took it all back in lump sum today. Worries over a weak report on consumer spending last month as well as an end-of-month selling bout caused investors to pull back. Britt Beemer

NPR 2009-10-25

President Obama has declared the H1N1 flu a national emergency, a move that opens the way for hospitals, doctors and local governments to get legal waivers so they can better cope with any surge of people with the swine flu virus. NPR's Richard Gonz

NPR 2009-10-27

The makers of the vaccine for swine flu are being taken to task for giving an overly rosy assessment of their ability to produce enough vaccine for everyone who wants it. Making the rounds of the network morning news programs, Health and Human Servi

NPR 2009-10-28

President Obama visited a massive solar power facility in Florida today to announce a multibillion dollar push for upgrades to the nation's electric grid. NPR's Scott Horsley reports. With acres of solar cells stretching out behind him, Mr. Obama sa

NPR 2009-10-21

President Obama is continuing to say plans to wind down US operations in Iraq are on track. Meeting this morning in the Oval Office with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the president reaffirmed the expected pullout of combat forces by next summ

NPR 2009-10-17

A panel investigating allegations of fraud in Afghanistans presidential election is expected to release its conclusions this evening or tomorrow. The results will determine whether incumbent President Hamid Karzai won the August 20th vote or whether

NPR 2009-10-19

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel says President Obama will not commit any more American troops to Afghanistan until questions about that countrys government are resolved. Get a government that is seen as legitimate to the people and has a cre

NPR 2009-10-20

In Vienna today, the head of the United Nations nuclear agency said talks with Iran to move most of its enriched uranium out of the country are off to a good start. From Vienna, NPR's Eric Westervelt reports. Following an afternoon of close-door tal

NPR 2009-10-22

The FBI has arrested a Boston-area man for allegedly conspiring to kill prominent US politicians and attack shoppers at a mall. NPRs Dina Temple-Raston reports. Tarek Mehanna was arrested at his parents house in Sudbury Massachusetts in an upscale n

NPR 2009-10-23

President Obama is praising a new Treasury Department plan to rein in executive compensation by 50%. The seven largest companies had received billions in taxpayer bailouts. Speaking at the White House, the president said that many Americans were not

NPR 2009-10-16

The House of Representatives has approved a bill to allow foreign terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay to be sent to the U.S. for trial. The measure passed 224 to 193, only one Republican voted for it. Opponents said transferring suspects to the ma

NPR 2009-10-15

Better-than-expected earnings reports from a couple of key sector companies help to send the most closely-watched stock market index above 10, 000 for the first time in more than a year. The upbeat assessment's pushing the Dow Jones Industrial Avera

NPR 2009-10-14

President Obama's effort to restructure the nation's health care system got a major boost today. The Senate Finance Committee voted to send its overhaul measure to the full Senate. One Republican, Maines Olympia Snowe, was among 14 committee members

NPR 2009-10-12

The top UN official in Afghanistan Kai Eide is acknowledging that there was, what he called, widespread fraud in the country's recent presidential election. But Eide would not be more specific about how much fraud occurred. Any specific figure at th

NPR 2009-10-11

Pakistan's military is struggling to defuse a hostage standoff at the country's army headquarters which was attacked today by insurgents wearing military fatigues. At least six military personnel were killed, and gunmen are now holding up to 15 peop

NPR 2009-10-09

The Senate Judiciary Committee has passed a revised version of the USA Patriot Act. Three provisions will sunset at the end of the year if the law is not renewed. NPRs Ari Shapiro reports. The committee voted eleven to eight in favor of the revision

NPR 2009-10-07

A White House meeting on Afghanistan between President Obama and congressional leaders has wrapped up. The president invited more than thirty members of Congress from both sides of the aisle to discuss current US strategy in the region. Emerging fro

NPR 2009-10-06

President Obama made another pitch for his health care overhaul plan today, this time to a group of doctors. Speaking to physicians in the White House Rose Garden, the president said that no one has more credibility with the American people on this

NPR 2009-10-05

Insurgents in Afghanistan killed eight American soldiers and two Afghan police officers in a brazen daylight attack in the eastern part of that country this weekend. But President Obama's National Security Advisor, retired General James Jones is dis

NPR 2009-10-03

Plenty of excitement in Rio de Janeiro today, though not so much in Chicago, Tokyo or Madrid, the three other cities that had been in the running to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. Rio beat out surprise finalist Madrid to host the Games after Chicago