From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jim Howard. At least 13 people are dead in anti-Israeli protests along the Lebanese and Syrian borders and in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The violence comes on a day called Nakba, the annual observa...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jim Howard. After days of warnings, the Army Corps of Engineers at this hour is opening the spillway in Morganza, Louisiana. It hopes to move or lower the level of the Mississippi River and save Baton Rouge and New Or...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. More neighborhoods are taking on water in Vicksburg, Mississippi, where Governor Haley Barbour is sounding this warning. You need to go on and get out now while you can. With the Mississippi River still...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Obama wants two more years out of FBI Director Robert Mueller, whose 10-year term expires this September 4. He plans to ask Congress to let Mueller stay on the job longer because of what he de...
The burgeoning Mississippi River is forcing residents in the poverty-stricken delta to run for higher ground. Teresa Welsh, a mother of three, says she's trying to keep it together. Knowing full well, her home will go underwater before the river cres...
President Obama was on the US-Mexican border today in an effort to create public pressure on Congress to try again to pass an immigration overhaul bill. NPR's Mara Liasson reports. President Obama promised Hispanic voters in 2008 that he would pass a...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A familiar sound in the most vulnerable communities along the burgeoning Mississippi River. All eyes are on Tennessee this hour, where the river at Memphis is expected to crest at or near 48 feet tonigh...
From President Obama's national security advisor, a benign evaluation of how much Pakistan knew about bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad. We don't have evidence at this point that the political, military and intelligence leadership of Pakistan knew ab...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jamie Mclntyre. The Pentagon today released five unremarkable videos of Osama bin Laden. Unremarkable except for the fact that they were bin Laden home videos, captured by US Navy SEALs, who raided his compound and sh...
US stocks still in positive territory with the jobs market posting robust gains. The Labor Department says the economy picked up a more-than-expected 244,000 positions in April. NPR's John Ydstie reports all of the net job growth came in the private...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Lakshmi Singh. Members of the group that took out Osama bin Laden is expected to be thanked personally by President Obama. The White House says the president plans to travel to Fort Campbell, Kentucky tomorrow to meet...
President Obama will not release photos of Osama bin Ladens body more than two days after the al-Qaeda leader was killed by US forces in Pakistan. NPRs Ari Shapiro reports the president decided that the photos graphic nature could create national sec...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. CIA analysts are going through documents and other information taken from the raided compound in Pakistan where US special operations team killed Osama bin Laden. NPR's Rachel Martin says the data could...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Barack Obama, less than 24 hours after announcing the death of Osama bin Laden, says this is a good day. The world is safer. It is a better place because of the death of Osama bin Laden. The p...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Nancy Lyons. NATO is denying it was trying to kill the Gaddafi family after reports that some members died in an air strike. Teri Schultz reports in the politically charged incident. NATO issued an unusual early morni...
