President Obama is pledging 100% commitment to the future of NASA including a manned mission to Mars and back by the mid-2030s, but the president says itll mean a significant departure from the old way of doing business. At the Kennedy Space Center i...
President Obama has met with the bipartisan leadership of Congress at the White House. They discussed financial re-regulation legislation. As NPRs Mara Liasson reports, the parties sound as though they are moving farther apart, not closer together on...
President Obama is urging world leaders whore meeting in Washington today to act and not just talk about safeguarding nuclear materials. NPRs Scott Horsley has more. President Obama called nuclear terrorism one of the greatest threats to global secur...
President Obama is set to give an official welcome to open an nuclear summit in Washington. The focus of the gathering: to get participating nations to secure enriched uranium and plutonium stockpiles, to keep the potential bomb-making material out o...
President Obama is holding meetings with world leaders on the eve of a nuclear security summit in Washington, D.C. One notable absence from this weeks conference is the prime minister of Israel. Benjamin Netanyahus recent decision to keep expanding s...
In Warsaw, bells toll for fallen leaders on one of the darkest days in Polands history. President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, and dozens of civilian and defense chiefs were among 96 people killed today in a plane crash in Russia. Clusters of lit candle...
The longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court is retiring. Justice John Paul Stevens is ending 35 years of service on the bench, effective this summer when the court finishes its work. President Obama praised Stevens as an impartial guardian of th...
Rescuers plan to resume their search for West Virginian miners in a couple of hours. The families are hoping that this time the team will actually make it far enough to check special chambers where four miners may have taken refuge since Mondays expl...
The Obama administration has released its Nuclear Posture Review, the guideline for how nuclear weapons fit into the nations defense plans. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says its designed to make clear states like Iran and North Korea all options ar...
The White House is strongly condemning todays attack by extremists on the US Consulate in Pakistan. Suicide bombers and gunmen tried to breach the perimeter of the heavily fortified compound. Sound of explosions and weapons fire sent people scramblin...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Rebecca Sheir. This year, Easter falls on the same day for the Eastern and Western churches. Thousands of Christian pilgrims celebrated the holiday in Jerusalem today. NPRs Lourdes Garcia-Navarro was there. Im standing...
Several Afghan soldiers are dead as a result of friendly fire by German forces in Afghanistan. Brigadier-General Eric Tremblay says the troops were mistaken for insurgents. A German patrol became under contact, probably under a very complex attack by...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Lakshmi Singh. President Obama says jobs market is beginning to turn the corner, encouraged by the Labor Departments March report out today showing 162,000 jobs added to the economy. Thats biggest gain in three years....
President Obama is on a quest to get skeptical Americans on board with new health care law. In Portland, Maine this afternoon, the president echoed key selling points of that law: greater accountability for insurers, coverage for millions more Americ...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Korva Coleman. Making good on his promise to pursue a comprehensive energy strategy, President Obama has announced plans to expand offshore oil drilling off the East Coast. NPRs Scott Horsley reports. President Obama s...
