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...
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...
President Bush is sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Georgia to show support for the embattled president there. He's also launching a humanitarian mission with the Pentagon in the lead. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports. President Bush says...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Opening ceremonies in Beijing for the 2008 Summer Games where the show began with movie director Zhang Yimou's version of Chinese history complete with drummers and lavish traditional garb. With the lighting of the Olympic Flame, the Games officiall...
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...
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...
President Bush has arrived in South Korea at the start of his Asian tour. The president's plane landed today at a military airport near the South Korean capital. He is expected to meet with South Korea's president tomorrow. North Korea's nuclear pro...
Tornado warnings were issued in downtown Chicago yesterday because of the severe storm that forced baseball fans out of the stands at Wrigley Field. Cubs' fan Jerry Goldman was among those who found themselves looking for a safe place to wait out th...
Nobel Prize-winning author and famed Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died at the age of 89, according to Russian news media reports. His graphic accounts of the slave labor camps in the former Soviet Union earned him international renow...
Iran failed to meet a deadline today to announce whether it's ready to suspend uranium production, and begin international talks on ending its nuclear program. Teri Schultz has more from Brussels. A European Union diplomat says Brussels wasn't reall...
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...
