President Obama is monitoring the eleventh-hour spending debate on Capitol Hill. Democrats and Republicans have yet to agree on a way to extend the payroll tax cut, which expires at year's end. Speaking in Washington this morning, the president threw...
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in Afghanistan, visiting US troops for the holidays, says the US has reached a turning point in the-decade long war. For all the sacrifice that you are doing, the reality is that it is paying off and that we are moving...
No changes to report following the conclusion of the Federal Reserves last meeting of the year. Steve Beckner of Market News International has more. The Fed is not injecting more stimulus at this time, nor is changing its communication about where in...
President Obama playing host to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at the White House is applauding the end of the Iraq War. He says Iraq will not stand alone once US troops leave at the end of the year. He says we will never waver in the defense of...
Syrian activists say the army and defected soldiers are clashing in the north and south of the country. NPRs Peter Kenyon reports observers say more than 60 people have been killed just since Friday. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Righ...
Palestinian officials are angry about comments by Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. As NPRs Jeff Brady reports, Gingrich yesterday called Palestinians an invented people. Newt Gingrich made the comments in an interview with the cable n...
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Virginia Techs on lockdown while police search for a gunman who killed a police officer and another person a few hours ago following a traffic stop on the campus. University spokesman Mark Owczarski is heard on WDBJ Television. As right now, the stat...
Illinois ousted Governor Rod Blagojevich is sentenced to 14 years in prison for political corruption. After learning his fate today, Rod Blagojevich told reporters he was going home to speak with his family about the road ahead. If you can meet with...
It's make-or-break time for the middle class, President Obama's message today at a high school in Osawatomie, Kansas. It's the same town where Republican President Theodore Roosevelt spoke more than 100 years ago in his New Nationalism address to fig...
President Obama is delivering a stern warning to Congress to extend the payroll tax cut before it expires at year's end, saying failure to do so would mean average families will see their taxes increased by $1,000. At the White House today Mr. Obama...
Russian state television reports that exit polls show the party of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is picking up less than half the vote in parliamentary elections. Opposition parties and election monitors claim even this figure is inflated. They charg...
Herman Cain says he is suspending his campaign for the Republican nomination for president. He made the announcement a few minutes ago in Atlanta. Cain has been accused of sexual harassment and having had an extramarital affair. Cain called the alleg...
The US economy adds 120,000 jobs and sends the unemployment rate down sharply at 8.6% in November. NPR's Sonari Glinton reports the Labor Departments data out today shows that while the unemployment rate fell, so did average weekly earnings. This emp...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is wrapping up a visit to the long-isolated South East Asian nation of Myanmar by meeting with its main opposition leader. NPR's Michele Kelemen is traveling with the secretary in the country also known as Burma. Cl...
