Rescuers in Los Angeles are racing to find victims who may still be trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building. NPR's Mandalit del Barco was on the scene where, she says, a tampered gas line exploded. Approximately 6:15 am, a welding factory in So...
Demonstrations against Arizona's immigration law lead to arrests in downtown Phoenix today. Several dozen people were handcuffed. This a day after a federal judge blocked the most contentious parts of the state's law. From member station KJZZ Peter O...
Opponents of Arizona's new immigration law are celebrating a victory this afternoon. We believe that a judge's ruling was a very strong one. Clarissa Martinez of the National Council of La Raza pleased that a federal judge blocked some of the most co...
President Obama's trying to shore up support for the war in Afghanistan following the unauthorized release of a huge cache of classified documents from the battlefield. As NPR's Scott Horsley reports, Mr. Obama does not want the leaked documents to s...
The Pentagon says it's trying to assess the potential damage caused by the leak of more than 90,000 classified documents on the Afghanistan War. In a briefing today, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says Wikileak.org's unauthorized action was irres...
BP's chief executive may be out of a job soon. Several reports today say Tony Hayward will be replaced this week because of his handling of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. An official announcement is possible as soon as tomorrow. This comes a...
What's left of tropical depression Bonnie is weakening as it makes its way through the Gulf of Mexico. Authorities in the Gulf are now sending ships back to the site of BP's damaged rig. NPR's Carrie Kahn says the operation is starting with one of th...
The NPR family in the broader world of journalism is remembering a giant among us. NPR News Analyst Daniel Schorr died this morning at the age of 93, leaving behind footprints from a lifetime of pioneering work in the industry. In this 2002 interview...
The temporary cap on the BP oil well will stay closed even as ships are evacuated for a tropical storm expected to hit the area this weekend. Incident Commander Thad Allen says it's safe to leave it unmonitored for a couple of days, and he says they...
The White House is apologizing to Shirley Sherrod, a black USDA employee, who was forced to resign this week after being accused of racial bias against a white family decades ago. On CNN today, Sherrod accepted the apology. I accept the apology. You...
Millions of Americans who've been out of work for more than six months are getting some relief. This afternoon, the US Senate voted 60-40 to extend unemployment benefits. NPR's Scott Horsleys been tracking the story for us. Passage comes after heavy...
BP is getting more time to keep testing a cap on a ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico if the company promises to watch for any new leaks on the seabed. This despite detecting seepage which White House spokesman Robert Gibbs described a short tim...
BP says its containment cap may stay shut and stop its oil leak until a relief well kills the broken well next month. Eileen Fleming of member station WWNO reports it depends on testing that so far shows no oil leaking under the seabed. BP spokesman...
BP officials say they're encouraged by the way a cap is working to prevent more oil from gushing from a broken well in the Gulf of Mexico. Vice President Kent Wells says they're closely monitoring information on pressure and temperature since the wel...
BP says early test results from its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico are not calls for alarm, but aren't calls for celebration either. Scientists have been spending today studying what's happening in the well now that the flow of oil has stopped....
