Rescuers in Los Angeles are racing to find victims who may still be trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building. NPR's Mandalit del Barco was on the scene where, she says, a tampered gas line exploded. Approximately 6:15 am, a welding factory in So...
Demonstrations against Arizona's immigration law lead to arrests in downtown Phoenix today. Several dozen people were handcuffed. This a day after a federal judge blocked the most contentious parts of the state's law. From member station KJZZ Peter O...
Opponents of Arizona's new immigration law are celebrating a victory this afternoon. We believe that a judge's ruling was a very strong one. Clarissa Martinez of the National Council of La Raza pleased that a federal judge blocked some of the most co...
President Obama's trying to shore up support for the war in Afghanistan following the unauthorized release of a huge cache of classified documents from the battlefield. As NPR's Scott Horsley reports, Mr. Obama does not want the leaked documents to s...
The Pentagon says it's trying to assess the potential damage caused by the leak of more than 90,000 classified documents on the Afghanistan War. In a briefing today, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says Wikileak.org's unauthorized action was irres...
BP's chief executive may be out of a job soon. Several reports today say Tony Hayward will be replaced this week because of his handling of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. An official announcement is possible as soon as tomorrow. This comes a...
