NPR 2008-03-05

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Carl Kasell. Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island are holding presidential primaries today. It's a close race for Democrats between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. On the Republican side, John McCain's co

NPR 2008-03-03

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Raum. A suicide bomber struck in northwestern Pakistan today, during a meeting called by tribal elders to discuss peace. At least 30 people were killed. It was the third such attack in as many days. NPR's Philip

NPR 2010-12-16

The US government is suing BP as well as eight other companies and subsidiaries over the unprecedented oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year. Attorney General Eric Holder says the suit is just the first step in holding BP and others accou

NPR 2010-12-07

The embattled founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is suffering another setback. Switzerland has frozen the bank account of his whistle-blowing website. Lisa Schlein in Geneva reports the bank reportedly acted because Assange allegedly had provided

NPR 2011-08-11

President Obama is meeting with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke in the aftermath of the central bank's decision to offer extremely low interest rates for two more years, though the announcement caused the market to rally yesterday. By the day, all that wen

NPR 2011-08-12

Optimism appears to be the order of the day in the US market with stocks higher in part on news that we may not be headed into a double-dip recession after all. At last check, the Dow was up 440 points, more than 4%, at 11,161, and the NASDAQ was up

NPR 2011-08-16

President Obama is on an economic bus tour through America's heartland , looking to build support at a time when voters were way down by high unemployment and reports pointing to more trouble ahead for the economy. NPR's Scott Horsley says the presid

NPR 2011-09-13

Stocks have opened mixed on Wall Street. The stock prices are down sharply on overseas markets amid new concern that Greece may be edging toward a default and that the European debt crisis might spread to that region's banks. NPR's Paul Brown joins u

NPR 2011-09-14

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jeanine Herbst. The White House says President Obama will continue to press his case for a new jobs bill every day and challenge congressional Republicans if they fail to act on the measure. NPR's Scott Horsley report

NPR 2011-10-11

Markets rally today on signs that European Union leaders are making progress in addressing the debt crisis. On Wall Street the Dow was up 304 points, the NASDAQ up 79. A European Union summits scheduled for next Monday has been delayed to give leader

NPR 2011-12-12

Syrian activists say the army and defected soldiers are clashing in the north and south of the country. NPRs Peter Kenyon reports observers say more than 60 people have been killed just since Friday. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Righ

NPR 2011-05-11

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

NPR 2011-04-13

House and Senate leaders are working to line up the votes they'll need to pass a budget that funds the rest of the fiscal year. NPR's Audie Cornish reports voting is expected to begin on Thursday. Conservatives in the House from Tea Party favorites M

NPR 2011-04-07

Emergency White House talks to try to end a budget stalemate and avert a government shutdown had ended and without agreement. A shutdown could have real effects on everyday Americans. That means that small business owners who are counting on that loa

NPR 2011-04-04

Seventy-nine Southwest's planes remain grounded after a hole tore the fuselage open in a plane out of Phoenix Friday. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports the issue of metal fatigue is not new to Southwest. The plane damaged Friday was a 15-year-old Boeing

NPR 2011-05-15

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

NPR 2011-05-16

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

NPR 2011-02-02

Under nightfall, demonstrations show no signs of abating in Egypt. In the largest demonstration yet since the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak started over a week ago, hundreds of thousands of people have flooded Cairo's Tahrir Square. They w

NPR 2011-01-14

Doctors in Tucson say Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is opening her eyes for 10 to 15 minutes at a time, and they say her progress has been exceptional. NPR's Jeff Brady says doctors hope to remove her breathing tube in coming days. Concern over br

NPR 2011-01-08

The nation's payrolls expanded in December, sending the unemployment rate down almost 0.5 percent to 9.4 percent, but Danielle Karson reports the economy created fewer jobs than anaylsts were expecting. The private sector added 113,000 jobs to busine