The man billed as the first Guantanamo Bay terror suspect to face a civilian trial, Ahmed Ghailani, has been found not guilty of terrorism charges today in a federal trial in New York. Thirty-six-year-old Ghailani, a native of Tanzania, was accused o...
A 25-year-old service member from Iowa is the first living recipient of the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. Moments ago at a White House ceremony, President Obama couldnt contain his pride in bestowing the highest military honor on army staff S...
Congressman Charles Rangel of New York had requested to delay his ethics trial and it was denied. Today a bipartisan congressional panel decided not to delay the trial after Rangel argued that he needed time to obtain a new lawyer. Rangel faces 13 ch...
Taxation is topic A as Congress returns to Washington for a lame-duck session. At issue, should the tax cuts adopted during the Bush administration extend beyond their year's end expiration date? On NBC's Meet the Press, Senator John McCain of Arizon...
Freedom today for pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar, the former Burma. Seven and a half years ago, Suu Kyi was sentenced to house arrest. Today, at the age of 65, her sentence, which had been extended three times, expired. Back in 19...
President Obama's spending the last two days of his Asia tour in Japan, shoring up trade support at a regional summit after suffering a few setbacks. Earlier at the G20 meeting in Seoul, the president was unable to secure a free trade pact with South...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Taps and stillness following a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns on Veterans Day. Vice President Joe Biden appealed to all Americans to really remember what US troops and their families...
British police say a mail bomb intercepted last month at an English airport could have exploded in flight over the US East Coast. Scotland Yard says in a statement that the bomb could have gone off on Friday, October 29th, if it had not been found an...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Lakshmi Singh. President Obama is spending this day in Indonesia, where he's looking to shore up relations between the US and the worlds most populous Muslim nation. This trip to Indonesia was long delayed, but as NPRs...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A radical Sunni Muslim cleric born in the US is urging religious scholars to promote holy war against American and Israeli interests in the Middle East. NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson is in Cairo and repo...
