Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan told the House Judiciary Committee today that top White House officials deliberately misled him about the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports. McClellan testified that he...
The FBI and the Justice Department today announced arrests and indictments resulting from a probe into the mortgage crisis. Since the beginning of March, more than 400 people have been arrested. In a related sweep, Justice and the SEC announced the...
Scores of communities along the Upper Mississippi River continue to fight the rising waters even as levees around the area begin to fail. The governors of both Illinois and Missouri were on site today to assess the situation. From member station KWM...
A car bomb attack has killed at least fifty-one people and wounded dozens more in a neighborhood of northwest Baghdad. The bombing hit shoppers at a market during the evening rush hour. NPR's Corey Flintoff reports from Baghdad. Police say the bomb...
Rain-soaked residents of the Midwest experiencing some of the worst flooding there in 15 years are getting little relief. In the town of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, people have been out of their homes, in some cases, since last week, after the Cedar River o...
Iowa's Governor Chet Culver says the flood damage in his state will run into the billions of dollars. Gloria Kelsey of Des Moines says her home remains completely underwater. We don't know if theyre gonna be able to rebuild and more on social securi...
Clean water is now a major concern in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where the downtown area is submerged under murky flood waters that have contaminated several collection wells. City officials say supplies of drinking water may last only three or four days un...
NBC newsman Tim Russert is being remembered today both by his colleagues and by the politicians whom he interviewed, among them President Bush. Russert died suddenly this afternoon while at work. The cause of death is not known. Informed of the news...
President Bush in Rome, midway through a European trip, says he disagrees with the Supreme Court ruling that says detainees at Guantanamo Bay have the right to use US courts to challenge their detention. NPRs Don Gonyea reports. President Bush was m...
Pakistan has launched what it is terming a strong protest with the US over an attack by US forces at the Afghan-Pakistan border, which claimed the lives of 11 Pakistani soldiers. The deaths came as US Special Forces were apparently battling militant...
