NPR 2009-6-12

President Barack Obama kicked off a campaign for health care reform today in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He disputed claims he wants to socialize medicine. He also said there's a moral-led economic imperative to make health care more affordable and access

NPR 2009-06-13

The polls have now closed across Iran after a day that saw a massive number of Iranians cast their votes for president. NPR's Mike Shuster reports from Tehran. From early in the morning when the polls opened until late at night, Iranians besieged th

NPR 2009-6-14

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Craig Windham. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad insisted the official vote count, showing him with a landslide reelection win, was in his word free and healthy. But supporters of his main opponent Mir Hossein Mous

NPR 2009-06-15

Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has for the first time given his endorsement to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, a change the White House is calling an important step forward. But Netanyahu says Israels willingness to

NPR 2009-08-12

President Obama today took his health care proposal to a town hall style meeting in New Hampshire where the President told a mostly supportive crowd he will not sign any health care initiative that adds to the deficit. The President also said the pr

NPR 2009-08-14

The number of US households in some stage of foreclosure took another bump-up in July. The group RealtyTrac which maintains an extensive database of foreclosure activity nationwide says foreclosure filings last month were up 7% from the previous mon

NPR 2009-08-15

President Obama traveled to Montana today to promote his administration's health care initiative, telling an audience at a town hall meeting there that the news media may have bear some of the blame for overemphasis on scenes of angry protesters at

NPR 2009-08-16

A suicide bomber triggered a powerful blast outside NATO headquarters in Afghanistan's capital today. At least seven people were killed and nearly 100 others were injured. The Taliban is claiming responsibility for the attack. NPR's Jackie Northam r

NPR 2009-09-02

President Obama today pointed to growth in the manufacturing sector as evidence the nation's economy is on the right track. NPR's Scott Horsley has more. The nation's manufacturing sector grew last month for the first time in more than a year and a

NPR 2009-09-03

President Barack Obama has now scheduled what is being billed as a major address to Congress on health care for September 9th. The speech will come just one day after lawmakers return to the Capitol from their August recess. The move comes at a time

NPR 2009-09-04

Defense Secretary Robert Gates meeting with reporters at the Pentagon today said he realizes there is growing impatience with the war in Afghanistan. But he took exception to the idea the war, in his words, is slipping through the administration's f

NPR 2009-09-05

A NATO airstrike in northern Afghanistan has killed or wounded at least 90 people, most of them believed to be Taliban fighters. NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson has more from Kabul. NATO says its aircraft targeted two fuel tankers that Taliban fighters

NPR 2009-09-06

The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal is acknowledging that some civilians were at least injured in an airstrike yesterday against two hijacked fuel tanker trucks. From what I have seen today in going to the hosp

NPR 2009-09-07

The White House says the resignation of President Obama's special adviser on green jobs, Van Jones, came because Jones had decided the agenda of the president is bigger than any one individual. Jones stepped down from his position with the White Hou

NPR 2009-09-09

The Federal Reserve says that consumers sharply cut back on their borrowing in July. That decline suggests the economic rebound will not come as quickly as many economists have predicted. Food manufacturers now have to tell the Food and Drug Adminis

NPR 2009-09-10

A hijacked AeroMexico plane carrying 112 people including crew landed in Mexico City today and up to eight people have been arrested. Americans, Mexicans and French were reported among the people on the flight from Cancun. TV images reportedly showe

NPR 2009-09-11

A widening trade deficit indicating increased consumer demand along with falling unemployment claims are showing that the economy may be picking up steam. NPRs Audie Cornish reports. First, the US trade deficit saw some increases in import, partly b

NPR 2009-09-12

On this eighth anniversary of the terror attacks that prompted the US invasion of Afghanistan, a leading Senate Democrat has demanded that far more Afghanistan security forces be trained. Until that happens, Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin says n

NPR 2009-09-13

Tens of thousands of protesters crowded the grounds of the US Capitol and parts of the National Mall to voice their discontent with the Federal government and the Obama administration's policies. One of the organizers of the march Jenny Beth Martin

NPR 2009-09-14

President Obama says he's willing to consider compromise variations to his plan for overhauling the nations health care system but only if hes convinced they will work. I have no interest in having a bill get passed that fails, that doesnt work. You