The World Health Organization today raised its pandemic flu alert level to five, its second highest threat level. As it says the number of confirmed swine flu cases in the US has now risen to 94 with health officials also reporting the first death i...
More public places are being shut down in Mexico as authorities attempt to stem the spread of swine flu. Officials say as many as 152 people have died, 20 cases have been confirmed to be from the virus. NPR's Carrie Kahn reports from Mexico City. Of...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. The World Health Organization has raised its pandemic alert level to four because of the outbreak of the new swine flu virus which has been confirmed in Mexico, the US, Canada, Spain and Scotland. Keij...
The acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Richard Besser, says there have been 20 confirmed cases of swine flu so far in the US. All 20 people have recovered and only 1 required hospitalization. It looks to be the same v...
The World Health Organization is closely monitoring the swine flu outbreaks in Mexico and the US, saying they have pandemic potential. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there are now 11 confirmed cases of swine flu in the US: seven...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. The Mexican government is battling a new strain of flu virus which has killed nearly 60 people, sickened hundreds of others and threatens millions in the world's largest and most densely populated capital...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Jack Speer. President Barack Obama met today with the heads of some of the country's biggest credit card companies. The president made it clear his administration wants the industry to cut out the fine print and sudde...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. General Motors, already under the gun to retool ahead of a government deadline, apparently is planning a major summer shutdown to a number of US factories. According to sources familiar with the plan, GM...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. President Obama today left open the possibility of criminal prosecution for Bush administration officials who authorized harsh interrogation techniques. NPRs Scott Horsley reports. President Obama reassur...
President Obama made his first visit to the CIA's headquarters in Virginia today. The president's visit coming just days after the administrations decision to release top secret memos detailing the agency's use of a simulated drowning technique know...
President Obama is scheduled to arrive back at the White House within a half hour from a Latin American trip that concluded with the summit of leaders of more than 30 other western hemisphere nations in Trinidad. Mr. Obama says the leaders did not a...
Secretary of State Hilary Clinton says the US will vigorously raise to the Iranian government, the administration's concerns about the eight-year-prison sentence given to Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi. She was convicted this week by a co...
The cargo ship captain rescued from Somali pirates Easter Sunday is back home in Vermont. Captain Richard Phillips' plane landed in Burlington late this afternoon. After a brief reunion with his family, Phillips spoke to the media for the first time...
The Obama administration has told CIA officials, said that they will not be prosecuted for waterboarding terrorism suspects during the Bush administration. A message came as the White House released Bush era memos, authorizing harsh interrogation te...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. Iran's president says he'll soon present a plan to end the international standoff with the West over his country's nuclear program. He also reiterated the program will continue. Teri Schultz has more f...
