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A brutal day on Wall Street with US stocks plunging as Standard Poor's did another downgrade this time on mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The closing bell just a minute to go, the Dow closing down more than 600 points under the 11,000 mar
Now the hard work begins, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's message in Tripoli today to Libya's interim leaders as they face a transition to democracy. Democracy takes time. It will not be easy or quick. But we are filled with admiration for what
More than 60 million Americans who receive social security benefits are expected to see a little more in their monthly checks. Starting next year, the Social Security Administration says retirees and the disabled will see a cost of living adjustment
BBC News with Jonathan Izard. The UN General Assembly has for the first time held a debate on the global nuclear arms ban. More than 120 countries endorsed such a treaty, but 40 UN members stayed away from the talks. The U.S. envoy said national secu
Pro-Russia Separatists Proclaim New State to Replace Ukraine Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have announced plans to replace Ukraine with a new state. Yet Russian officials played down the announcement. They said the rebel proposal was simply a
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Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, the president's special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, is in the hospital after emergency surgery. As NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports, Holbrooke is a veteran diplomat who's been given some of the thorniest fore
After 12 days of airstrikes and intense ground fighting which began this past weekend, Israel today ordered a three-hour pause in its offensive in Gaza. The brief respite allowed food and fuel to enter the territory and medics to retrieve bodies fro
An appeal from Swedish prosecutors is keeping Julian Assange in a British jail for at least another two days. Sweden is fighting a British judge's decision today to free the Wikileaks founder on bail while he fights extradition to Sweden, where he fa
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. In a legal blow to the Obama administration, a federal court judge in Virginia has struck down a central piece of the president's health care law. US District Judge Henry Hudson ruled today that requiri
BP's attempt at securing a chamber around the source of an expanding oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may be in trouble. In a news briefing moments ago, CEO Doug Suttles said ice crystals had formed inside the containment dome when it was placed over
Republican critics are criticizing President Obama's 2013 budget plan which seeks four trillion dollars in deficit reduction in the next decade. It calls for government spending cuts which the GOP supports but it also seeks an end to tax breaks for t
The campaign for the Republican nomination for president continues in Wyoming and Kansas today. There are 40 delegates up for grabs in the Kansas caucuses and a dozen in Wyoming. After Super Tuesday wins earlier this week, both Rick Santorum and Mitt
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WASHINGTON, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday reaffirmed U.S. defense commitment to the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan, vowing no recognition of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as a nuclear state. The bo
Chapter 5 - Balashv is at last presented to Napoleon in Vlna Davout was to Napoleon what Arakcheev was to Alexander though not a coward like Arakcheev, he was as precise, as cruel, and as unable to express his devotion to his monarch except by cruelt
Chapter 7 - Balashv dines with Napoleon After all that Napoleon had said to him those bursts of anger and the last dryly spoken words: I will detain you no longer, General; you shall receive my letter, Balashev felt convinced that Napoleon would not
BBC News with Julie Candler. The director of the FBI says the bureau is probing new emails related to Hilary Clinton. James Comey said the FBI would determine whether the new emails contained any classified information. Mrs. Clintons republican rival
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DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- World elites entered their third-day discussion in the Swiss ski resort of Davos(达沃斯) on Friday, turning to a variety of issues, including economic situation and the Doha round of global trade talks. The