President Obamas back on the frontlines of the oil spill; this time it's Alabama. He's in Theodore, one of the Gulf Coast's largest staging areas to stockpile and ship out supplies. We are minimizing the short-term impacts, and we're making sure that...
The government's point man for responding to the Gulf Coast oil spill disaster says he expects BP to offer a new improved containment plan as early as today. NPR's Neda Ulaby has more. Admiral Thad Allen of the US Coast Guard appeared on CBS's Face T...
State police say the number of people missing after a flash flooding in Arkansas is down to about two dozen. The early Friday floods have killed at least 17 people. NPR's Wade Goodwyn is near the campgrounds in Langley, Arkansas and tells us more tha...
Sixteen people are believed to be missing after heavy rains caused a flash flooding along two rivers in southwestern Arkansas. Sabrina McCormick from member station KTXK reports. Many of the dead were camping at the popular tourist camp, Albert Pike...
The Secretary of the US Army delivers a stinging indictment today against those accused of sloppy record keeping at Arlington National Cemetery. And John McHugh tells the families of those resting in that hallowed ground that he is deeply sorry. Toda...
Israel is taking its first step toward calming worldwide outrage over its recent raid of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Palestinian officials say Israel is easing its embargo, allowing snack foods and other previously banned items, but Hamas, which runs...
The government is confirming that BP's giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been producing plumes of oil deep below the water surface. We have more from NPR's Debbie Elliott. NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco says the agency has evaluated water...
It has been an especially bloody day for American and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Five American soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb blast in eastern Afghanistan, at least two other Americans died in a separate attack today. The alliance is suffer...
BP says the containment cap that are rigged on its shattered oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is working, but US officials say the effort to contain the spill has only just begun. NPR's Brian Mann reports. In its first day of operation Friday, the cap...
The government reaffirmed today that oil will continue to leak from a broken well in the Gulf of Mexico at least until August. NPR's Joe Palca has more. Officials from both the federal government and the oil company BP say the only way to stop the fl...
Investors bailing out stocks again today. The Dow Industrial Average fell very sharply, at last check down 340 points at 9,916 . NASDAQ losing 84 points at 2,219. NPRs Chris Arnold has been following the markets and he joins us now. Hi Chris. Hi Laks...
BP says it may find out in the next 12 to 14 hours whether its latest attempt to cap a devastating oil spill works. CEO Tony Hayward concedes it's risky. Earlier, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen announced that the damaged pipe spewing crude from the f...
A rescue plan to cap a blown-out well deep in the Gulf of Mexico is stalled. BP is using undersea robots to free a saw that got stuck while it was cutting through a pipe on the wellhead assembly. The goal is to at least contain the oil spill. With an...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. BP is making another attempt at tackling the oil spill that's been dumping as much as 19,000 barrels of oil each day for over a month in the Gulf of Mexico. NPR's John Ydstie has details. The goal is to...
Fury in the streets of Istanbul, Turkey where hundreds tried to storm the Israeli Consulate today. It was a similar scene in Greece and parts of the Arab World reacting to Israel's deadly attack this morning on an international aid flotilla bound for...
