Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced today that she will resign on July 26th and will not seek re-election next year. As last year's Republican vice-Presidential candidate, Palin's move is seen as a potential first step toward a bid for the White H...
The news the economy lost another 467, 000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate rose to 9.5% drew comments from President Obama today. Speaking at the White House Rose Garden, the president said he understands why people are deeply concerned th...
Thousands of helicopter-borne US marines have launched a massive assault in southern Afghanistan's Helmand River valley, a Taliban stronghold and the main source of their cash crop poppies that produce heroin. NPR's Tom Bowman joins us now. Tom, wha...
After a long battle, Republican Norm Coleman has conceded defeat to Democrat Al Franken in Minnesota Senate race. That follows a state Supreme Court ruling in favor of Franken today. NPR's Cathy Shaw reports. The unanimous court ruling came after an...
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...
