US officials are still trying to confirm that a major terrorist plot coming out of Pakistan has no American component. As NPR's Dina Temple-Raston reports, terrorists allegedly have been planning commando-like attacks on European civilian targets. Th...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Pam Coulter. President Obama is on his first extended campaign trip of the season. NPRs Scott Horsley says Mr. Obama was in New Mexico for a backyard conversation with middle-class voters. President Obama visited the h...
There's a lot of buzz surrounding the latest merger in the airline industry. Southwest Airlines is buying discount competitor AirTran. NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports the deal is worth nearly $1.5 billion. Although the name on the fuselage says Southwest,...
US officials are meeting with Israeli and Palestinian negotiators this weekend, hoping to salvage the just resumed peace talks. One complication is that in two hours, a partial moratorium on new Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank will ex...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Nora Raum. President Obama and Republicans used their weekly addresses today to comment on the GOPs new plan on taxes and the economy. NPRs Mandalit del Barco has more. The GOPs pledge to America is a new plan to slash...
A stronger-than-expected report on durable goods sends stocks surging toward the fourth straight weekly gain. At last check, Dow was up 192 points at 10,854. Orders at factory shot up two percent in August, but that's excluding a decline in demand fo...
President Obama is arriving in New York where he will speak at the United Nations anti-poverty conference. Mr. Obama is expected to outline his administrations goals for helping the world's poorest nations. But the UN gathering is also expected to hi...
In a major setback for gay rights advocates, Senate Democrats were unable today to get the 60 votes they needed to move forward a measure to repeal Dont Ask, Dont Tell, the policy that bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. NPRs...
The economic recession in the US is officially over. It ended in June of last year. That's according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, which identifies the official dates of recessionary periods. As NPR's John Ydstie reports, the recent re...
A huge misunderstanding. That's how Sarah Shourd explains her experience being held on espionage charges in an Iranian prison. She was released last week after 13 months of detention and arrived back home in the US today. She's especially worried abo...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Barbara Klein. President Obama is due to address the Congressional Black Caucus annual awards dinner this hour. NPRs Allison Keyes reports the president is working to energize African-American voters for the upcoming m...
The FBI has custody of a couple charged with conspiring to attempt to help develop a nuclear weapon for Venezuela. Department of Justice spokesman Dean Boyd says a scientist and his wife appeared in federal court in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The defen...
One in seven Americans lives in poverty. The rate is the highest it's been since 1995. NPR's Tamara Keith brings us the findings of a new Census Bureau report that reveals the recession spared virtually no one. The reason more Americans are living in...
President Obama is praising the fact that lawmakers appear to be moving towards approval of a small business jobs bill. However, the president blasted those he says are standing in the way of his plan to extend tax cuts for middle-income households....
An American woman held for more than a year in Iran has arrived in Oman. Sarah Shourd was released today. She was arrested along with two American men while hiking in July last year along the Iran-Iraq border. As NPR's Jackie Northam reports, there a...
