From NPR News in Washington, I'm Barbara Klein. Bernard Madoff whose multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme cost many investors their life savings was sentenced to 150 years in prison today in a New York courtroom. NPR's John Ydstie reports. U.S. Distric...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. There has been a coup d'etat in the Central American nation of Honduras. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports. By a show of hands, the Honduran Congress elevated the congressional President Roberto Micheletti...
NATO and Russia are resuming formal military cooperation on a range of security threats. John Psaropoulos has the story from Athens. NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that NATO and Russia have restarted military-to-military contacts...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. President Obama said the unrest in Iran and the crackdown on demonstrators makes it harder for the US to engage Iran directly over its nuclear weapons program. He also dismissed a call by the Iranian Pres...
Singer Michael Jackson has reportedly been rushed to a hospital in Los Angeles. A fire department official tells the Los Angeles Times that paramedics had performed CPR when they arrived at his home because Jackson wasn't breathing. Civil liberties...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. According to witnesses in Tehran, there were more clashes today between police and protestors with reports of baton-wielding riot police striking demonstrators and firing tear gas and rounds of ammunition...
President Obama said today the US is appalled and outraged by the crackdown on opposition protesters in Iran. But he stopped short of outlining any consequences to the Iranian government. NPR's Scott Horsley reports. President Obama turned up the rhe...
Emergency officials in Washington DC are investigating the collision of two subway trains in northeast Washington today. The incident involving two of the city's Metro trains is said to have taken place on Metro's Red Line. DC fire officials say the...
Iranian police made a show of force on the streets of the capital Tehran today and opposition supporters largely stayed away after more than a week of protests over June 12th disputed presidential election. Reuters News Service reports the oppositio...
President Obama is calling the crackdown against demonstrations in Iran violent and unjust and he warned that the world is watching what's happening in Tehran. Sound of gunfire was heard there today as police clashed with protestors defying a warnin...
Supporters of Iranian moderate candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, according to one individual, are feeling angry, worried and disappointed after a speech by Iran's supreme leader in which he called for an end to street demonstrations. Comments come in t...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. Lawmakers are digging into details of President Obama's plan to overhaul financial regulation today. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was on Capitol Hill answering questions about the plan. NPR's Scott...
President Obama today called for a new consumer protection agency as part of his sweeping effort to rewrite the financial rules of the road and avoid future economic meltdowns. NPR's John Ydstie reports. Speaking to an audience in the East Room of th...
President Obama is weighing in today on the disputed presidential race in Iran, though he also appears to be treading cautiously, not wanting to, as he put it, meddle in Iranian politics. President said he welcomed the decision by Iran's supreme lea...
With thousands of people marching through the streets of Tehran today to protest the disputed presidential election, the country's top cleric has called for an inquiry into opposition claims the election was rigged. The incumbent President Mahmoud A...
