President Obama is seeking to build public pressure on lawmakers in advance of a vote on healthcare overhaul legislation by putting a personal face on the issue. The president speaking at a senior center near the Ohio hometown of Natoma Canfield toda...
The State Department is warning Americans to be extra careful about traveling to Mexico, the day after three people, two of them US citizens, were gunned down in Ciudad Juarez. NPRs Sonari Glinton has the story. Drug cartel violence, especially along...
A series of explosions including suicide blasts is blamed in at least 27 deaths in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar today. Authorities say more than 50 people are wounded. The biggest attack was on a prison. Officials believe insurgents may have...
President Obama is putting off next week's trip to Indonesia, his first overseas trip of the year to stay close to the latest action on healthcare. Democratic leaders in the House are looking to pass an overhaul bill this month, but President Obama i...
Democratic leaders are working today to unite the party behind a healthcare overhaul bill. They're hoping to push through Congress before the break. There was talk of a March 18th vote in the House, but the president's spokesman Robert Gibbs says law...
President Obama welcomed Haitian President Rene Preval at the White House today. Preval is in the US thanking Americans for their help after Haitis devastating earthquake in January. Mr. Obama says the quake was one of the most devastating incidents...
The Senate is taking a key vote on legislation extending jobless benefits to Americans. It's a procedural vote. The legislation includes dozens of tax breaks for individuals and businesses that expired in 2009. Congress has previously passed several...
The Justice Department has unsealed terrorism charges against the man who has been linked to a Somali terrorist group called Al-shabaab. Authorities say he had bomb-making instructions in his possession when he was arrested. NPRs Dina Temple-Raston r...
President Obama congratulated Iraqis for coming out to vote in todays parliamentary elections in spite of violence by insurgents that killed at least 38 people. That's the sound of the morning call to prayer during voting this morning at a Baghdad po...
At least three people were killed today when a car bomb exploded near a bus for pilgrims in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. Insurgents are blamed for dozens of other deaths in the Iraqi cities in the run-up to tomorrow's national elections. Hundreds o...
The economy showing signs of turning a corner. The Labor Department reports today that employers cut 36,000 jobs last month far fewer than predicted. As Hugh Johnson, chief economist of Johnson Illington Advisors notes the unemployment rate remains s...
The New York governors communications chief is resigning over the political scandal overshadowing the states top office. In a statement today Peter Hoffman says that given the recent developments, he had to quit. Governor David Paterson is under pres...
President Obama wants Congress to finish work on healthcare legislation. Hes calling on lawmakers to bring bills to the floor and vote on them. Republicans hate the bills and many want to scrap the existing legislation. And Mr. Obama says thats a fat...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Renita Jablonsky. President Obama is revising his health overhaul plan to add some Republican proposals. But as NPRs Julie Rovner reports, theyre not likely to win many new votes. Mr. Obama said the changes were prompt...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev says his country is now ready to consider new sanctions against Iran over that nation's nuclear program. Medvedev says he's still hoping though the tougher sanctions c...
