NPR 2009-01-25

President Obama says his administration's 825-billion-dollar economic recovery plan is aimed to doing far more than pulling the nation out of recession and creating jobs. This is not just a short-term program to boost employment. It's one that will

NPR 2008-07-12

One of the nation's largest independent mortgage lenders has been taken over by the federal government after determination the California-based thrift was unsound. The decision by the Office of Thrift Supervision comes after efforts by IndyMac to ra

NPR 2008-08-07

Government papers released in the anthrax investigation paint Army scientist Bruce Ivins as a disturbed man who tried to mislead investigators by submitting false samples. NPR's Allison Keyes has more. According to the documents, the case against Iv

NPR 2008-08-08

A military jury has sentenced the former driver for terrorist leader Osama bin Laden to five and a half years in prison. The sentence handed down to Salim Hamdan for his conviction of supporting terrorism was far less than the 30 years prosecutors h

NPR 2008-08-17

President Bush is hailing Russia's signing of a ceasefire agreement with the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. He called on Russia to withdraw its troops immediately. And he cautioned Russia against trying to take over two breakaway regions. They a

NPR 2008-10-19

President Bush is conferring at Camp David with the presidents of France and the European Commission about the global financial crisis, and plans for a summit of world leaders to be held in the US in the coming weeks. NPR's Curt Nickisch has more. P

NPR 2008-10-23

World markets went back into retreat today, amid a slew of disappointing corporate earnings showing the extent to which many financial firms and other companies have been hurt by the current financial crisis. Fears about the economy have become a ma

NPR 2009-01-17

Crews are searching the Hudson River for the engines from the US Airways jet that was forced to make an emergency landing in the water yesterday. National Transportation Safety Board spokesperson Kitty Higgins says they are also trying to lift the b

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NPR 2008-12-06

The news the economy lost more than half a million jobs last month, the worst one-month drop in 34 years from many economists, confirms the current recession could be longer and deeper than first thought. The government also revised downwards to the

NPR 2008-12-03

President-elect Barack Obama told state governors today upon his swearing-in he will be willing to help them come up with ways to create jobs and deal with declining revenues. At a meeting of the National Governors Association in Philadelphia, Mr. O

NPR 2008-08-16

President Bush again blamed Russia for the week-long crisis in Georgia and called on Moscow to withdraw its combat troops. He spoke as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in the Georgian capital, pushing for implementation of a French-brokered c

NPR 2008-08-15

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in France where she is calling on Russia to honor a French-mediated cease-fire with the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. She is then going to Georgia to show her support for the embattled leader there. NPR's

NPR 2008-08-13

Georgia's president now says he agrees with the European Union plan that would call for a ceasefire with Russia. The plan brokered by France calls for both Russian and Georgian troops to return to their original positions. Speaking to reporters afte

NPR 2008-08-12

President Bush today told reporters in the White House Rose Garden that recent actions by Russia against the former Soviet Republic of Georgia represent a dramatic and brutal escalation of violence. And just back from the Beijing Olympics, the presi

NPR 2008-08-11

Russian military forces have stepped up their offensive in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia today, targeting areas outside the contested region of South Ossetia. The US ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad warned Russia that its ti

NPR 2008-08-10

A delegation of US and European diplomats is reportedly heading to the former Soviet Republic of Georgia to try to broker a truce in the escalating conflict with Russia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashv

NPR 2008-10-16

The chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke warned today that an economic recovery will not come overnight. But he said federal officials are using every resource to stabilize the financial markets. NPR's Jim Zarroli reports. Speaking to the Ec

NPR 2008-08-02

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Kline. General Motors second-quarter earnings have come in far worse than Wall Street had expected. The company says it lost 15.5 billion dollars. From Michigan Radio, Dustin Dwyer reports. GM got slammed by

NPR 2009-01-13

President Bush in a somewhat reflective final news conference at the White House today indicated he has wondered whether there are some things he could have done better. However, on the matter of his administration's handling of the current economic