The Gulf Coast is bracing for the shoreline impact of the worst oil spill the region's ever faced. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports the growing oil slick threatens wildlife, fisheries and beaches from Louisiana to Florida. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal...
Republican senators again turned back a Democratic financial overhaul bill today. The legislation creates new regulations for Wall Street investment firms and for complex products called derivatives. GOP senators have successfully blocked debate on t...
The Goldman Sachs executives are more than five hours into testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations. The investment firm is taking hits for not disclosing. Its interests were at times at odds with those of its clients. NPR's Yuki No...
Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are approaching a showdown this afternoon over a bill to overhaul the nation's financial regulations. NPR's David Welna reports that although talks are underway to hammer out a bipartisan compromise, the upcomi...
President Obama is due to speak at a memorial service this hour for 29 miners killed in a mine explosion in West Virginia earlier this month. In excerpts of his eulogy, the president talks about the miners dying in pursuit of a better life. As a resu...
A massive weather system sweeping across the Deep South is spawning tornadoes. Suzette Berry lives just outside Yazoo City, Mississippi where she says a twister tore through Highway 49 and flattened just about everything in its path. Trees downed, I...
President Obama is taking aim at an Arizona immigration bill that requires police to question people suspected of being in the country illegally. At a naturalization ceremony in Washington, D.C. today, Mr. Obama seized on the controversial state meas...
Crews are trying to bore holes into a West Virginia coal mine. Theyre trying to vent poison gas, so they cant send rescue crews into search for four miners. They were in explosion Monday that killed 25 other people. NPRs Dianna Douglas is in Melville...
President Obama is telling Wall Street that sweeping change is on the way. He's pushing to overhaul the financial regulatory system and outlined that plan in New York's Cooper Union college today. Meanwhile, bipartisan negotiations on an overhaul bil...
At least 11 people remain missing from an oil platform explosion off the coast of Louisiana. Seven workers are badly hurt from the blast and fire late last night on the offshore drilling platform. Theres no word on what caused the blast. The Coast Gu...
The British government will reopen the countrys airports tomorrow. They have been closed because of the huge cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland has drifted over much of Europe, disrupting tens of thousands of flights. Scientists say the eruption of t...
Transportation authorities in Europe are opening up more airspace to commercial airline flights despite some ongoing concern about the cloud of volcanic ash that has been lingering over the continent for days. The flights will be restricted to so-cal...
Poland mourns the death of a president. Lech Kaczynski and his wife were laid to rest today more than a week after they were killed in a plane crash in Russia. They were among 95 people who died. Many of the others were also members of Polands politi...
Europe is in the throes of unprecedented flight disruptions for a third day because of a growing ash cloud from a volcanic eruption in Iceland this week. At least 17 countries have shut down their airspace. Frank Browning reports travelers are scramb...
Air travel in Europe is described as the worst since 9/11. More airports across the continent are shutting down because the huge cloud of ash from Icelands volcanic eruption is spreading. NPRs Eric Westervelt says Germany is among the latest to expan...
