From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Investigators appear to be contradicting claims by Halliburton that its cement job was no responsible for the BP blowout that led to a historical oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. NPR's Jeff Brady says t...
A Virginia man's charged with plotting to bomb the Washington D.C. subway system. NPR's Dina Temple-Raston reports, the FBI had been tracking Farooque Ahmed, who allegedly had been scoping out potential targets since spring. Ahmed is alleged to have...
It's the kind of storm the Midwest hasn't seen in years, unusually strong winds and heavy downpours for this time of year. Forecasters have compared the storm's pressure level to that of a Category 3 hurricane. Chicago Public Radio's Alex Keefe is in...
President Obama is back on the campaign trail today, stumping for political allies in the run-up to next week's midterm elections. He has just arrived in Rhode Island. There is one Democrat expected to give the president the cold shoulder today. Gube...
The death toll in Haiti's cholera epidemic is increasing. More than 250 people have died. Health experts say 3,000 people are infected, but the BBC's Laura Trevelyan says fewer diagnoses were reported today. Outside the main gate of the St. Nicholas...
Angering the US government, the whistleblowing website Wikileaks has published hundreds of thousands of military documents which show as many as 15,000 more Iraqi civilians were killed than previously knowledged. Larry Miller reports Wikileaks defend...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Obama's campaign swing through the West Coast takes him to California, where he is speaking at a fundraiser for Senator Barbara Boxer and touting her commitment to helping the middle class. Th...
Protests across France are continuing. The southeastern city of Lyon again is rioting. In Marseilles, the garbage is piling up because trash collectors are on strike and gas supplies are still running short. All the result of outrage over France's pl...
The Dow's off more than 200 points, more than 1.75 percent, sliding below the 11,000 mark for the first time in a week. Several factors are apparently rattling investors. China hiked its rates in an attempt to head off rising inflation. The close on...
The Dow's off more than 200 points, more than 1.75 percent, sliding below the 11,000 mark for the first time in a week. Several factors are apparently rattling investors. China hiked its rates in an attempt to head off rising inflation. The close on...
