A suicide bomber triggered a powerful blast outside NATO headquarters in Afghanistan's capital today. At least seven people were killed and nearly 100 others were injured. The Taliban is claiming responsibility for the attack. NPR's Jackie Northam r...
President Obama traveled to Montana today to promote his administration's health care initiative, telling an audience at a town hall meeting there that the news media may have bear some of the blame for overemphasis on scenes of angry protesters at...
The number of US households in some stage of foreclosure took another bump-up in July. The group RealtyTrac which maintains an extensive database of foreclosure activity nationwide says foreclosure filings last month were up 7% from the previous mon...
The interest rate setting arm of the Federal Reserve has wrapped up its two-day meeting in Washington, taking no action on a key overnight bank lending rate it controls. In its end of meeting statement, the members of the Fed's Open Market Committee...
President Obama today took his health care proposal to a town hall style meeting in New Hampshire where the President told a mostly supportive crowd he will not sign any health care initiative that adds to the deficit. The President also said the pr...
The leaders of Mexico, Canada and the United States have wrapped up a brief summit meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico. President Obama also held a one-on-one meeting with Mexico's President Felipe Calderon where the two discussed the unprecedented wave...
Divers have now recovered seven bodies from yesterday's midair collision of a helicopter and a small plane over the Hudson River in New York City. All nine people aboard the two aircraft are presumed dead. Wreckage of the helicopter was hoisted out...
Searchers are looking for the bodies of nine people who were aboard a sightseeing helicopter and a small plane that collided in midair over New York's Hudson River today. From member station WNYC, Marc Garber reports. Rescue helicopters are hovering...
The nation's job market shrank by 247,000 positions last month according to the Labor Department. That amounts to a 0.1% decline from June to July, the smallest in a year and another sign the recession might be easing. NPR's Frank Langfitt reports....
The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court. NPR's Audie Cornish reports. Minnesota Senator Al Franken read the tallies at the end of the confirmation vote. On this vote, the yeas are 68 and the nays are 31. Th...
Former Democratic Congressman Bill Jefferson was convicted today on 11 felony counts, including charges of taking bribes. NPR's Peter Overby has details. A jury at Federal District Court in Alexandria, Virginia returned a verdict after nearly four d...
North Korea's official media agency says the country's leader, Kim Jong-Il, pardoned two jailed American reporters and ordered their release during a visit today with former President Bill Clinton. Former National Security Council member Dannis Wild...
Several reports out today reinforce earlier indications that the economy is stabilizing. Construction spending in June beat expectations by climbing 0.3% over May. Manufacturing activity rose in July to the highest level in nearly a year. And US aut...
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says in order for the nation to have a sustained economic recovery, the administration will have to reduce the massive federal budget deficit. NPR's Audie Cornish has the story. The federal deficit is now more tha...
Iran's state-run television station says three American tourists have been arrested after entering the country from northern Iraq without permission. The State Department is looking into the reports, as NPR's Allison Keyes reports. The three were re...
