The FBI is investigating today's shooting at the headquarters of the Family Research Council in Washington DC. A man is in custody. NPR's Carrie Johnson reports the case could be investigated as an example of domestic terrorism. A security guard has...
In a better-than-expected sign for the US economy, retail sales have risen for the first time in four months. NPR's Chris Arnold reports on the latest findings from the Commerce Department today. It's just one-month data, but it's still encouraging a...
The legendary editor of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown, has died at the age of 90. Before her success in the magazine world, she heated big in the 1960s with the book Sex and the Single Girl. NPR's Selena Simmons-Duffin has this remembranc...
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi announced today hes replacing his defense minister and head of the armed forces Hussein Tantawi as well as his deputy. From Cairo, the BBCs Yolande Knell reports. The dramatic changes concerning Egypts two top genera...
Mitt Romney has selected Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate. NPR's Brain Naylor reports Ryan is a seven-term member of Congress best-known for working on budget issues. Ryan is chairman of the House Budget Committee and is author of...
Thousands of mourners, many of them Indian Americans from across North America, are in Wisconsin to pay tribute to the victims of last Sunday's attack at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek. Some people silently sobbed as the crowd slowly filed into a school...
The trade deficit has fallen to its lowest point in one and a half year, an unexpected turn in June, according to economist Hugh Johnson. It was a big surprise. Most of us had been expecting a number that was somewhere close to say 47 to 48 billion d...
President Obama is spending the next two days in the battleground state of Colorado, where he is expected to address a crowd in Denver shortly. Kirk Siegler of member station KUNC reports polls in Colorado show the president and his GOP rival former...
Another NATO service members been killed in Afghanistan, and news reports are saying it was an American. Authorities say two others were wounded when two gunmen wearing Afghan National Army uniforms turned on NATO troops. More than 25 coalition servi...
Security is tighter in sea communities around the world a day after police say army veteran Wade Michael Page stormed a temple in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin suburb of Oak Creek and opened fire on worshipers. He killed six people and wounded three other...
Theres been a shooting at a Sikh temple south of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Earlier today, a shooter entered the Sikh temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek and began firing. Police Chief Bradley Wentlandt of nearby Greenfield says seven people were killed. The...
At the Summer Olympics in London, it's a big day for Michael Phelps. He is swimming in what he says, is the final race of his career this hour. NPR's Howard Berkes says it's Phelps' last chance to add to his record number of Olympic medals. It's a pr...
The nation's unemployment rate climbed 0.1% in June，heading 8.3%。It was campaign fodder for GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney who told audience in Los Vegas. President's policy has not worked because he thinks government makes Americans work h...
At the Summer Olympics in London, results are in from one of the most anticipated matchups of the games, the men's 200-meter individual medley. As NPR's Tom Goldman tells us American swimmer Michael Phelps struck gold again. It was his first individu...
Federal Reserve policymakers are acknowledging the economic recovery is losing steam. But after two days of meetings, they have announced they will not use stimulus measures to pump things up at least not at this time. NPR's Steve Hen reports. In the...
