NPR 2010-04-21

The British government will reopen the countrys airports tomorrow. They have been closed because of the huge cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland has drifted over much of Europe, disrupting tens of thousands of flights. Scientists say the eruption of t

NPR 2010-04-22

At least 11 people remain missing from an oil platform explosion off the coast of Louisiana. Seven workers are badly hurt from the blast and fire late last night on the offshore drilling platform. Theres no word on what caused the blast. The Coast Gu

NPR 2010-04-23

President Obama is telling Wall Street that sweeping change is on the way. He's pushing to overhaul the financial regulatory system and outlined that plan in New York's Cooper Union college today. Meanwhile, bipartisan negotiations on an overhaul bil

NPR 2010-08-27

The latest jobs report reveals an unexpected decline in new unemployment claims last week, but economist Hugh Johnson says the better measure on labor trends, the four-week average, tells a different story. The truth is that the jobless claims have b

NPR 2010-08-30

The Gulf Coast is still not recovered from Hurricane Katrina, which struck five years ago today. President Obama spoke at Xavier University in New Orleans a short while ago and made this promise. On this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and t

NPR 2010-08-28

The US economys growing more slowly than expected. The Commerce Departments downgrading the nations second-quarter growth to 1.6 percent, down from 2.5 percent. Dean Croushore, chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Richmond, says

NPR 2010-10-31

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Salih today reportedly announced that at least one woman is under arrest for allegedly sending mailbombs found on cargo planes in Dubai and England. Oliver Holms is in the Yemeni capital Sanaa where he says security is

NPR 2010-09-27

US officials are meeting with Israeli and Palestinian negotiators this weekend, hoping to salvage the just resumed peace talks. One complication is that in two hours, a partial moratorium on new Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank will ex

NPR 2010-12-29

Flights are arriving at New York's Kennedy Airport and so are the nightmare stories of being stuck on the tarmac for nearly 10 hours. The latest involves Cathay Pacific, whose passengers on at least one of the flights that arrived last night say they

NPR 2010-01-05

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. A man with a shot gun walked into the lobby of the Federal Courthouse in downtown Las Vegas this morning and opened fire, killing one court officer and seriously wounding another. The gunman fled the bu

NPR 2010-01-15

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Helicopters are flying in aid to Haiti where millions of people lost their homes in Tuesday's earthquake. The White House says the airport in the capital Port-au-Prince has been secured. But because the

NPR 2010-12-27

Forecasters say the big winter storm blowing up the East Coast could just graze the nation's capital, but other regions may not be so lucky. The National Weather Service's Bob Oravec says the storm will be a blizzard in some areas. Blizzard warnings

NPR 2010-12-26

Winter weather is disrupting holiday travel in the southern US, where some parts are having a rare white Christmas. Hundreds of flights are canceled in and out of Atlanta. And National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Korty says the East Coast sho

NPR 2010-11-30

The White House is calling the whistle-blowing group Wikileaks and anyone linked to the release of classified materials criminals. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is threatening aggressive steps to get to the source of the leak. This disclosure is

NPR 2010-12-24

In Rome, package bombs have exploded today at the embassies of Switzerland and Chile. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports two people were wounded. The first mail bomb exploded at the Swiss embassy when an employee opened a package. He was seriously wounded

NPR 2010-01-22

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The US Supreme Court is allowing corporations to spend however much they want on political campaigns again. Today the nation's high courts struck down a 20-year-old ruling that restricted corporate cont

NPR 2010-12-30

rescue workers are reportedly, are trying to get two people still trapped in the wreckage of Berlin furniture stores burnt and destroyed, a third person was rescued earlier today hours after apparent natural gas explosion, when city manager JohnZetod

NPR 2010-10-30

President Obama is expected to speak shortly about suspicious packages out of Yemen that have prompted international security alerts. The packages were found at an airport north of London and a cargo side in Dubai. Sweeps were conducted at airports i

NPR 2010-10-29

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

NPR 2010-10-28

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