NPR 2011-01-01

A storm system is generating a series of apparent tornadoes, the latest reported in the Midwestern and Southern US. In the tiny Missouri town of Sunset Hills just outside St. Louis, Mayor William Nolan describes being stunned by the damage. It's incr

NPR 2012-01-20

Four Republican presidential candidates remain just hours ahead of the debate in South Carolina. Texas Governor Rick Perry is out. I am suspending my campaign and endorsing Newt Gingrich for President of the United States. NPR's senior Washington edi

NPR 2012-01-17

Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is suspending his campaign for the White House and is endorsing former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. We have details from NPR's Don Gonyea in Myrtle Beach. Huntsman made the announcement at the Convention Cente

NPR 2011-05-20

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

NPR 2011-04-18

Thousands of Syrian protesters are taking to the streets a day after the Syrian president promised the country's oppressive emergency law would be lifted. NPR's Deborah Amos in Cairo reports the Internet has been blocked in some protest sites. Syrian

NPR 2011-06-22

The Republican field of presidential hopefuls is getting bigger. Today, former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman formally announced his candidacy at New Jersey's Liberty State Park, the same place where Ronald Reagan announced his White House bid in 1980. H

NPR 2011-06-05

Pakistani officials say a US drone attack killed one of the five most wanted men in Pakistan last night. Ilyas Kashmiri was suspected of orchestrating deadly attacks in Pakistan and India, including the siege in Mumbai in 2008, in which more than 160

NPR 2011-08-05

A partisan standoff over a bill to fund the Federal Aviation Administration has the agency in partial shutdown and tens of thousands furloughed. Today at the White House, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called on Congress to get back to Washingto

NPR 2011-08-07

A partisan standoff over a bill to fund the Federal Aviation Administration has the agency in partial shutdown and tens of thousands furloughed. Today at the White House, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called on Congress to get back to Washingto

NPR 2011-08-06

A partisan standoff over a bill to fund the Federal Aviation Administration has the agency in partial shutdown and tens of thousands furloughed. Today at the White House, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood called on Congress to get back to Washingto

NPR 2011-09-10

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. President Obama has kicked off his three-day bus tour of the Midwest with a broadside against not only the Republican Party as a whole but the field of GOP candidates. Mr. Obama to stop in Minnesota and la

NPR 2011-09-07

A mass shooting at a restaurant in Carson city, Nevada this morning reportedly is blamed for at least three deaths and a number of injuries. We have the latest from NPR's Ted Robbins. Witnesses say a man drove up to an IHOP in a strip mall this morni

NPR 2011-09-03

The US market is getting jolted by today's weakest jobs report in the year with major indexes sliding more than 2%. Before the close on Wall Street, the Dow was down 251 points at 11,242; NASDAQ was off 66 points or 2.5% at 2,480; and the SP 500 down

NPR 2011-09-16

From npr news in Washington, I am J.P. A bipartisan group of senators became known of the summer as the gang of six reemerge today as a group of 36, nprs TW reports that pushing a newly supercommittee pursuing a more ambitious goal for deficit reduct

NPR 2011-10-06

In a landmark development within stem cell research, scientists say theyve used a cloning technique to make embryonic stem cells that match a patients DNA. The journal Nature highlights a study that shows the potential for using the technology to rep

NPR 2011-10-01

The White House is hailing the death of a prominent al-Qaeda figure today as a significant milestone in the international campaign against terrorism. Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in an air strike in Yemen today. The US says the same military counterter

NPR 2011-12-03

The US economy adds 120,000 jobs and sends the unemployment rate down sharply at 8.6% in November. NPR's Sonari Glinton reports the Labor Departments data out today shows that while the unemployment rate fell, so did average weekly earnings. This emp

NPR 2008-03-08

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder. Security is tighter than usual in Jerusalem today as huge crowds gather for the funerals of eight students killed yesterday by a suspected Palestinian gunman. Nearly a dozen others were injured when the

NPR 2011-12-16

President Obama is monitoring the eleventh-hour spending debate on Capitol Hill. Democrats and Republicans have yet to agree on a way to extend the payroll tax cut, which expires at year's end. Speaking in Washington this morning, the president threw

NPR 2011-12-15

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in Afghanistan, visiting US troops for the holidays, says the US has reached a turning point in the-decade long war. For all the sacrifice that you are doing, the reality is that it is paying off and that we are moving