13 bound corpses have been found in Eastern Syria, UN observers say they discovered the bodies in Deir el-Zour province. The UN team says the victims appear to have been shot at a close range with their hands tied behind their backs. The discovery co...
Top Syrian diplomats are being told to leave the US and several other countries in a coordinated protest against Syria's leader Bashar al-Assad. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports the action follows a massacre in which the United Nations says citizens i...
In communities, margin small American are honoring US military members today. In Washington president Obama placed grace in tomb of unknown and Vienna memorial. In the upstate ,New York community North country public radio Brand reports observance is...
The United Nation Security Council is meeting in an emergency session today to discuss Syria. Members are to hear from the head of the UN observer mission in Syria about Fridays massacre in the town of Houla. UN officials say at least 90 people were...
President Barack Obama is paying tribute to veterans this Memorial Day weekend, honoring those willing to sacrifice their lives for their country. The President opened his weekly * and * an address that reflected on the meaning of the holiday. The Pr...
Indiana police are reporting a hostage crisis in the northwestern city of Valparaiso. According to the Associated Press, a gunman is holding an unknown number of people captive inside a real estate office. So far, there are no known injures. Local me...
Police in New York and the Manhattan District Attorney's officer looking into the story of a man who they say has implicated himself in the death of six-year-old Etan Patz whose disappearance 33 years ago. Forever changed the way people looked at iss...
In his first public testimony about the prostitution scandal that's engulfed his agency. The director of the Secret Service apologized for the misconduct. But as NPR Tamara Keith reports, he insists there isn't a permissive culture of the service. Th...
Authorities are trying to learn more about the woman who forced US Airways flight bound to North Carolina to divert to an airport in Maine after she displayed what authorities described as suspicious behavior. The aircraft out of Paris, France, lande...
A former Rutgers University student, convicted of bias intimidation against his gay roommate is getting 30 days in jail and 3 years probation(缓刑). Dharun Ravi is accused of using a webcam to spy on Tyler Clementi, who suicide days later, fueled n...
President Obama says Afghanistan is ready to move from a decade of war to a period of peace and development. NPR Scott Horsley reports Mr. Obama is hosting a NATO summit in Chicago on Afghanistans postwar future. President Obama says there is still a...
Leaders of eight leading world economies are meeting today at Camp David, in the Maryland mountains to discuss the European debt crisis. Michael Froman is president Obama's deputy national security advisor on international economics. He says the lead...
The New president of France is assuring President Obama that French troops will withdraw from Afghanistan by year's end as he pledged in his campaign. Hollande spoke through a translator after meeting with Mr. Obama at the White House. We also discus...
A prosecutor is using John Edwards words against him in his campaign corruption trial in North Carolina. Enclosing arguments today, Bobby Higdon said the former presidential candidate apparently forgot his own rhetoric(虚夸的言辞) when he said s...
The White House is awarding the Medal of Honor this hour to an American solider from Elwood City, Pennsylvania, who is killed in Cambodia(柬埔寨) in 1970. The army says paper work for the award was lost for three decades until a Vietnam War vetera...
