Tropical storm Isaac's winds are down to 40 miles per hour and has slowly moved out of Southern Louisiana. But it's still causing tremendous problems across the wide swathe of the US Gulf Coast. NPR's Christopher Joyce tells us that thousands of peop...
More than half million people in five states are without powers. Issac makes it slow six-mile per hour track inland on the U.S. gulf coast. The storm continues to lash New Orleans on the seventh anniversary of hurricane Katrina. Louisiana Governor Bo...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh.Hurricane Isaac is * towards New Orleans coast is expected to make landfall by early tomorrow, the seventh anniversary of hurricane Katrina. Some people are evacuating, others such as Georgina Moor are p...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh.The strike of a gavel? formally opens the Republican National Convention in Tampa today to little fanfare. Hardly anyone was there. Limiting? on tropical storm Isaac, tonight's opening event was canceled...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone.In Syria, there are reports what British official says could be quoted atrocity on a new scale requiring on equivocal condonation? from International community. As R reports activists say Syrian troop...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone.NASA is reporting a death in the family. Astronaut Neil Armstrong died at the age of 82. He was the first man to walk on the moon. His moonwalk on July 20th 1969 was the climax of entire US 20th centu...
Street around Emperor State Building in New York remain closed that police continue to investigate this morning shooting in the area.NPR reports 2 people are dead and 9 are wounded。Police say the incident began just after 9am ,recently laid-off wor...
Sharp drop in US stocks today on fading hopes of economic stimulus from the Fed disappointing reports from the eurozone and China's mixed data on the US economy. At last check on Wall Street, the Dow was off 114 points at 13,058. New Home sales are a...
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the economy will keep recovering at a modest pace for the rest of this year with unemployment lingering above 8%. But NPR's Craig Windham reports the CBO is warning the economy will suffer if Congress...
The fallout from Missouri Congressman Todd Akin's comments on women and rape are shaping up to be a political standoff between him and the Republican leadership. The GOP is pressuring Akin to drop out of the Senate race against incumbent Democrat Cla...
The US military's commander in Afghanistan says the campaign remains on track. General John Allen's comments after the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey paid a visit to the war-torn country to address the rising number of a...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange appeared in public today for the first time in two months. He has been inside Ecuador's embassy in London where he is evading arrest by British authorities who want to send him to Sweden for questioning in two sexual...
General Motors said today it is recalling a quarter of a million SUVs in the United State because of problems with the power door lock. As NPR's Yuki Noguchi reports the problem can cause a circuit to short creating a fire hazard. The problem is that...
South Africa police are facing a barrage of questions for how they could have allowed a neighbor dispute with striking miners to end in what's widely described now as a bloodbath with at least 34 deaths. Police maintain it was self-defence because th...
More American deaths in Afghanistan today. NATO says a US military helicopter crashed in the southern part of the country. Seven Americans and four Afghans were killed. It is a somber day for law enforcement in Louisiana. Two sheriffs deputies were k...
