From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. International aid is being distributed to more earthquake survivors in Haiti, but getting to the masses with food, aid and medical services is still difficult. An estimated 3 million people, 1/3 of Hait...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Helicopters are flying in aid to Haiti where millions of people lost their homes in Tuesday's earthquake. The White House says the airport in the capital Port-au-Prince has been secured. But because the...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Carol Van Dam. With thousands feared dead from yesterdays massive earthquake in Haiti, the Pentagon is gearing up to send thousands of troops, cargo planes and ships to help the battered nation. President Obama promis...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Carol Van Dam. Federal regulator sued Bank of America today, accusing the bank of failing to disclose what it calls staggering financial losses at Merrill Lynch before a merger of the company was approved. The suit fi...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. A federal trial is underway in San Francisco to determine whether the US Constitution bars states from outlawing same-sex marriages. The proceedings began in controversy as the US Supreme Court weighed...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. China has surpassed Germany as the world's largest exporter after a more-than-17% surge in 2009. Critics in the U.S. and other nations have complained that China's export success was bolstered in part b...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A purported videotape of the Jordanian man who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack has been released. Today Al-Jazeera Television broadcast the tape, in which the double agent called for atta...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The man accused of trying to blow up an airliner en route to Detroit on Christmas Day pleaded not guilty in federal court this afternoon. Sarah Hewlett of Michigan Radio reports. Umar Farouk Abdulmutall...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Jack Speer. Releasing a preliminary review of the events leading up to the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt against a US-bound jetliner, President Obama today called for additional steps to thwart terror efforts. A...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. The man accused of the deadly shooting at Washington's Holocaust Museum in June has died. 89-year-old James von Brunn died today at the federal prison in North Carolina. The self-declared white supremac...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. The US Intelligence Community in Afghanistan has been sharply criticized by one of its own. Major General Michael Flynn, a Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence for the US and NATO in Afghanistan, says...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. A man with a shot gun walked into the lobby of the Federal Courthouse in downtown Las Vegas this morning and opened fire, killing one court officer and seriously wounding another. The gunman fled the bu...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. The United States and Britain have shut down their embassies in Yemen in light of what President Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan called alive and active threat of Al-Qaeda attacks...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. President Obama says an al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen was apparently behind the failed attempt to blow up a jetliner bounded for Detroit last week. Mr. Obama said today he thinks about the nation's securi...
President Obama says an al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen was apparently behind the failed attempt to blow up a jetliner bounded for Detroit last week. Mr. Obama said today he thinks about the nation's security every moment of every day. NPR's Renita Jablo...
