A year after the start of the financial crisis, President Obama urged Wall Street to embrace reform to prevent another one from happening again. NPR's Frank Langfitt has the story. Last fall the financial system was on the brink of ruin. Today, the...
President Obama says he's willing to consider compromise variations to his plan for overhauling the nations health care system but only if hes convinced they will work. I have no interest in having a bill get passed that fails, that doesnt work. You...
Tens of thousands of protesters crowded the grounds of the US Capitol and parts of the National Mall to voice their discontent with the Federal government and the Obama administration's policies. One of the organizers of the march Jenny Beth Martin...
On this eighth anniversary of the terror attacks that prompted the US invasion of Afghanistan, a leading Senate Democrat has demanded that far more Afghanistan security forces be trained. Until that happens, Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin says n...
A widening trade deficit indicating increased consumer demand along with falling unemployment claims are showing that the economy may be picking up steam. NPRs Audie Cornish reports. First, the US trade deficit saw some increases in import, partly b...
A hijacked AeroMexico plane carrying 112 people including crew landed in Mexico City today and up to eight people have been arrested. Americans, Mexicans and French were reported among the people on the flight from Cancun. TV images reportedly showe...
The Federal Reserve says that consumers sharply cut back on their borrowing in July. That decline suggests the economic rebound will not come as quickly as many economists have predicted. Food manufacturers now have to tell the Food and Drug Adminis...
President Obama told union members in Ohio today it's time to stop debating an overhaul of the nation's health care system and to get something done. NPR's Scott Horsley reports. At Labor Day picnic in Cincinnati, Mr. Obama said the long-running nat...
The White House says the resignation of President Obama's special adviser on green jobs, Van Jones, came because Jones had decided the agenda of the president is bigger than any one individual. Jones stepped down from his position with the White Hou...
The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal is acknowledging that some civilians were at least injured in an airstrike yesterday against two hijacked fuel tanker trucks. From what I have seen today in going to the hosp...
A NATO airstrike in northern Afghanistan has killed or wounded at least 90 people, most of them believed to be Taliban fighters. NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson has more from Kabul. NATO says its aircraft targeted two fuel tankers that Taliban fighters...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates meeting with reporters at the Pentagon today said he realizes there is growing impatience with the war in Afghanistan. But he took exception to the idea the war, in his words, is slipping through the administration's f...
President Barack Obama has now scheduled what is being billed as a major address to Congress on health care for September 9th. The speech will come just one day after lawmakers return to the Capitol from their August recess. The move comes at a time...
President Obama today pointed to growth in the manufacturing sector as evidence the nation's economy is on the right track. NPR's Scott Horsley has more. The nation's manufacturing sector grew last month for the first time in more than a year and a...
A wildfire that continues to burn out of control northeast of Los Angeles has now destroyed at least 21 homes while continuing to threaten as many as 1,200 others and a historic observatory at top Mount Wilson. The fire now encompasses 134 square mi...
