The civil war in Syria is now threatening to destroy an historic marketplace in the old city of Aleppo, where merchants have been selling goods for hundreds of years. Activists say the fighting between government troops and rebels has started fires t...
The presidential candidates are gearing up for their first debate in Denver next week, although the economy has topped their agendas. They have also been focusing more on foreign policy recently. President Obama spoke by telephone today with Israeli...
The hearts and minds of voters were in contention in the swing state of Virginia today, where NPR's Mara Liasson tells us President Obama and GOP hopeful Mitt Romney made appearances. Both candidates were in Virginia today. Mitt Romney campaigned in...
The presidential candidates are not only back in Ohio today. In a rare turn of events they are also courting voters in the same part of the state. Early voting in the state is just six days away and the stakes are high. No Republican has won the Whit...
The NFL is upholding the Seattle Seahawks' 14-12 victory over the Green Bay Packers. Today the league sided with a replacement official's controversial ruling on the last second touchdown pass last night, a decision that touched off criticism both ta...
The world's most pressing issues including deadly unrest in the Middle East are at the forefront of the United Nations gathering in New York, where more than 100 world leaders are in attendance, including President Obama and Secretary of State Hillar...
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney travels to Denver, Colorado today for a campaign rally. From there hell open the three-day bus tour to Ohio to meet supporters. He'll also stop in Virginia this week. But first tonight, he will appear for a...
The presidential and vice presidential candidates are campaigning this weekend and they lost no time in criticizing each other. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney continues to mention comments President Obama made in 1998 discussing some wea...
Mitt Romney's campaign says it's making good on its promise to release the GOP candidate's 2011 federal taxes today. The couple's returns were to have been posted online at the top of this hour. The campaign says Romney and his wife Anne paid an effe...
President Obama took his campaign to Florida today where he focused on immigration. In Coral Gables the president defended his stands on the issue. I have never wavered in my support of comprehensive immigration reform. We did put forward a Dream Act...
A controversial Justice Department gun-walking operation aimed at Mexican crime cartels, known as Fast and Furious, was misguided and mismanaged, but not at the direction of Attorney General Eric Holder. NPR's Carrie Johnson is at the Justice Departm...
Mitt Romney's campaign has been buffeted today by a hidden camera video from a May fundraising event. In it, the presidential hopeful says, he does not expect to get the support of about 47% of Americans who he says see themselves as victims and enti...
Tunisia is on edge three days after extremists attacked the American embassy in Tunis. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley is in the Tunisian capital and reports that riot police surrounded a mosque where a firebrand cleric was preaching today. Hundreds of ferve...
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says the attack last week on a US consulate in Libya was spontaneous. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports that appears at odds with what Libyan officials are saying. Libya's president has told NPR that al-Qaeda was...
Al-Qaeda's franchise in Yemen is cheering the attacks on US embassies and the killing of an American ambassador, the result of Muslim rage over an anti-Islamic film made in California. NPR's John Burnett reports. Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsular, w...
