Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has named his choice to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the US Senate. Blagojevich today picked former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris. Chicago Public Radio's Tony Arnold reports. Blagojevich named B...
There are more reports of Israeli aircraft firing missiles into Gaza, killing additional Palestinians. According to officials, Israeli warplanes fired missiles at government buildings in Gaza City, flattening several buildings and killing a number o...
Israel says it will not halt its air offensive in the Gaza Strip until rocket attacks into southern Israel have been neutralized. Israel's UN ambassador Gabriela Shalev says Hamas left Israel with no choice but to take military action to stop the at...
Israel says the offensive it launched against the Islamist Hamas Group in the Gaza Strip today is aimed at improving the security situation in southern Israel which has been the target of salvos of rockets and mortar shells fired from Gaza. Israeli...
Police in California are providing new details into the Christmas Eve slayings in the town of Covina that left nine people dead and a number of others severely injured. Los Angeles police chief Kim Raney says 45-year-old Bruce Pardo who entered a ho...
Versatile singer and actress Eartha Kitt has died. Her role spanned the television hit Batman to the Broadway Stage, a self-proclaimed sex kitten famous for her catlike purr. Kitt won two Emmys, several Tonys and two Grammy awards in a career spanni...
Pope Benedict XVI today celebrated the traditional Christmas Eve Midnight Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, focusing on the plight of many of the world's children. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome. Delivering his homily in a crowded and resplende...
An internal review prepared by the staff of President-elect Barack Obama acknowledges that one member of his transition team Rahm Emanuel had a discussion with Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich about Mr. Obama's vacant Senate seat. However, accordin...
The five men accused of plotting to attack the Fort Dix army base in New Jersey were found guilty on federal conspiracy charges today. They now face possible sentences of life in prison. Peter Crimmins of member station WHYY was in the courtroom. Th...
Fierce winter storms have been pounding the northern half of the nation today, dumping more snow and ice on states still struggling to restore power knocked out by ice storms last weekend. Unusually frigid temperatures are gripping much of the Midwe...
Much of the northern half of the nation is in the grip of an arctic air mass and is bracing for another wave of snow and ice. NPR's Neda Ulaby reports. People in western Washington State are gearing up for a Mega-storm, that description is from a lo...
The Bush administration today announced a more than 17-billion-dollar rescue plan for troubled Detroit automakers Chrysler and GM. NPR's Chris Arnold reports. President Bush said that under ordinary circumstances he would have let the automakers fai...
Speaking as he unveiled his choice to head the Security and Exchange Commission today, President-elect Barack Obama said not just regulators but his administration needs to push for more transparency in the financial markets. Obama made his remarks...
The Illinois Supreme Court has refused to hear a challenge that questioned the fitness of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to hold office since he faces federal corruption charges. NPR's Cheryl Corley reports. The state's attorney general had filed...
The Federal Reserve slashed a key bank lending rate to just about zero today. The move establishes the federal funds target rate between 0 and 0.25%. The rate cut is an effort to spur the economy. NPR's Wendy Kaufman has more. The action by the Fed...
