A stunning defeat for British Prime Minister David Cameron, who lost a vote in Parliament endorsing military action against Syria by 13 votes today. The defeat comes as Britain had appeared to be ready to join the US in possible attacks against Syria...
UN chemical weapons inspectors planed to wrap up their work in Syria this week, but it will take more time to analyze the evidence they have gathered from the site of a reported toxic gas attack near Damascus. NPRs Michele Kelemen reports the US has...
The sound of the bell that hung in the 16th street back in church Beminham Alabama before the church was bombed 1963 wit after doctor Martain Luse King Jr's 'I have a dream' speech.Today,it is a symbol for a nation marking the 50th anniversary of thr...
United Nations investigators are expected to return tomorrow to the outskirts of Damascus, site of last week's alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria. They went to the area yesterday to collect samples, but the Arab League is joining Western leader...
Secretary of State John Kerry is accusing the Syrian government of using chemical weapons against rebel forces and destroying the evidence. Kerry's comments come as the Pentagon is drawing up plans to strike Syrian military targets. NPR's Tom Bowman...
The UN says Syria has agreed to allow inspectors access to suburban areas of Damascus where alleged chemical attack occurred. A senior Obama administration official says there is 搗ery little doubt?that the Syrian regime used a chemical weapon again...
Events marking the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s March on Washington are underway with tens of thousands of people converging on the nation's capital today. NPR's Allison Keyes is at the march where Georgia Congressman John Lewis addr...
Two major decisions in military court-martials today. At Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington State, Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was handed the sentence of life in prison without parole. He had apologized yesterday for massacring 16 civilians in A...
The Army staff sergeant who massacred 16 Afghan villagers during a nighttime raid last year says what he did was an act of cowardice behind a mask of fear and bravado. NPR's Martin Kaste describes Robert Bales' demeanor today. When Sgt. Bales took th...
The government is now allowing the pubic to see some court opinions it had previously tried to keep secret. The documents show that the National Security Agency illegally collected tens of thousands of e-mails that had no connection to terrorism. NPR...
The Obama Administration is rejecting reports that have quietly cut off aid to Egypt where nearly a thousand people have been killed in political unrest. But this afternoon the issue is a subject of a senior-level meeting. After the White House said...
The U.S. says it has nothing to do with Britain's decision to detain a partner of American journalist Glenn Greenwald who broke the NSA surveillance story with materials leaked by Edward Snowden. Britain's independent monitor of terrorism legislation...
The violence continues in Egypt. The official news agency says 36 people were killed today when members of the Muslim Brotherhood tried to help detainees escape from a prison truck convey in Cairo. The prisoners had been picked up during demonstratio...
Violence continued for a fourth day in Egypt .Officials say at least 800 people have died in fighting since bloodshed began Wednesday .Supporters of ousted President Mahand Morsi had been using a masking in Cairo make shift hospital and more. Today s...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh Helicopter can be heard hovering this hour over Egypt Tria square .The side of much today's deadly confrontation in Cairo. The city is dark but for the Origon glue for a large building in Gulf flames .Ca...
