The National Mall is hosting dozens of rememberences and veterans' reunions this Memorial Day as the nation hornors its fallen. NPR's Sonari Glinton reports. Joseph Scholle was a marine helicopter pilot in Vietnam. He comes twice a year to Washington...
A week after a devastating tornado hit the city of Joplin, Missouri, residents are coming together for a special memorial service. President Obama is attending the service. Today we gather to celebrate the lives of those we've lost to the storms here...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Nancy Lyons. President Obama says the US must always leave room to throw financial and moral support behind nations fighting for freedoms. NPR's Scott Horsley reports on his last stop on a six-day European tour, the p...
Consumers are spending more apparently because they have to. The Commerce Department reports a 0.4% jump last month as people shelled out more money to buy food and fill up their gas tanks. Take[Taking] those two categories out of the mixing, consume...
The former Bosnian Serb general accused of being the architect of some of the worst atrocities in Europe, not seen since World War II, is under arrest. Ratko Mladic appeared in a Belgrade courtroom today, wearing a cap and appearing frail, as he was...
President Obama calls the US-British alliance as vital as ever in asserting its influence on pro-democracy uprisings across the Arab world, but in his address to the British Parliament today, the president said freedom cannot be imposed, just support...
In Joplin, Missouri, it's a race against time to find tornado survivors. Local authorities aren't exactly sure how many people are unaccounted for. The numbers vary. They're holding out hope though that the death toll won't rise. At least 117 people...
Vast areas of Joplin, Missouri are said to be unrecognizable, a day after a tornado plowed through downtown with up to 165-mph winds. People in the southwestern Missouri city are finding entire neighborhoods reduced to twisted metal and rubble. Strip...
President Obama says the flap over his proposal to use Israel's pre-1967 border[s] in any future Israeli-Palestinian peace deal has gotten out of hand. Speaking to members of the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC today in Washington, the president said he...
The swollen Mississippi River is giving residents of at least one Louisiana town something ever reprieved. Evacuations that were supposed to become mandatory in Butte La Rose today had been put on hold. Most have already left, but officials there now...
President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met for more than 90 minutes at the White House today. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports it was a tense discussion on how to begin peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. President...
One million dollars cash bail has been set for former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. A grand jury in New York has indicted him after a hotel maid accused him of sexual assault. Strauss-Kahn has been jailed since the weekend and asked to be release...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he believes somebody in Pakistan security establishment, maybe someone who's retired or a low-level employee, was aware that Osama bin Laden was hiding in the country for years, but as NPR's Tom Bowman reports, Gat...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. The Mississippi River at Natchez is now closed to shipping traffic. The Coast Guard made the move to avoid putting more stress on the swollen river's levees, but it also closes off the major artery for...
A bit of good news for residents of Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin this afternoon: Flood level projections have been lower slightly. But as NPR's Greg Allen reports from Baton Rouge, people who live along the Mississippi River and its bayous are begin...
