Under a nighttime curfew ,the city of Cairo ,another city cross Egypt are reportedly to be relatively quite this hour .Security forces are trying to restore order following last 40 hour street battles that resulted in death of more than 600 people ac...
The death toll is surging from todays street battles across Egypt much of which is under a curfew this hour. The ministry of health is now reporting at least 235 death and more than 200 people wounded in street battles today. Gunshots swing out in Ca...
Federal and state antitrust officials are suing to block America and US Airways for merging into what it said to be the worlds largest airlines by passenger miles. Attorney general Eric Holder argues that if the $11billion deal goes through, air trav...
Former Boston mob boss James Whitey Bulger once among the most fugitives in the country is convicted of racketeering and murder. WBUR's Asma Khalid reports jurors reached a verdict not long ago. The indictment against him was a racketeering indictmen...
The father of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden says he's gotten a VISA to travel to Russia. Lon Snowden says he plans to visit his son there where he has temporary asylum. Speaking to ABC's This Week, Lon Snowden says he'd like his son to return...
President Obama spoke at the convention of disabled American veterans this afternoon. He praised veterans for their continuing commitment to help others despite facing their own difficulties. Volunteering in communities, building homes, being a mento...
President Obama has plans for a sweeping review of the National Security Agency's surveillance programs and an overhaul of the secret court that monitors and authorizes those programs. NPR's Craig Windham reports Obama's telling reporters at the Whit...
Israeli and Palestinian negotiators are going to meet next week in Jerusalem in their latest round of peace talks. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports US diplomats will be on hand. On August 14th, just two weeks after Secretary of State John Kerry relaunch...
In a rare rebuke, President Obama's turning down Russian President Vladimir Putin's invitation to meet in Moscow next month, though he still plans to attend the G20 summit in St. Petersburg. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports the White House says Russia's dec...
Against the backdrop of a construction company in Phenix, President Obama is outlining a plan to overhaul the way mortgages are guaranteed in the United States. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports this would involve winding down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In...
Major League Baseball is suspending 13 players for using performance-enhancing drugs. Twelve of them have accepted their 50-game penalty. But New York Yankees Alex Rodriguez is getting a more than 200-game suspension that could take him out of play t...
More than 20 US consulates and embassies are closed, mostly in North Africa and Middle East this weekend. The move comes after the US learned of a potential threat against American government or private business interests. The chairman of the US Join...
The State Department has closed 21 embassies and consulates around the world. The New York Times reports this is based on intercepted communications between senior al-Qaeda members. Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey says the threat now was more sp...
The State Department has issued an alert to all US citizens traveling overseas, and its closing some embassies in the Middle East and North Africa this Sunday. NPRs Dina Temple-Raston reports some unusual al-Qaeda activity has officials worried. The...
Russias decision to grant temporary asylum to former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has drawn a sharp reaction from the White House, which calls the move deeply disappointing. NPRs Ari Shapiro reports high-level talks that were sc...
