Taxation is topic A as Congress returns to Washington for a lame-duck session. At issue, should the tax cuts adopted during the Bush administration extend beyond their year's end expiration date? On NBC's Meet the Press, Senator John McCain of Arizon...
Freedom today for pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar, the former Burma. Seven and a half years ago, Suu Kyi was sentenced to house arrest. Today, at the age of 65, her sentence, which had been extended three times, expired. Back in 19...
President Obama's spending the last two days of his Asia tour in Japan, shoring up trade support at a regional summit after suffering a few setbacks. Earlier at the G20 meeting in Seoul, the president was unable to secure a free trade pact with South...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Taps and stillness following a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns on Veterans Day. Vice President Joe Biden appealed to all Americans to really remember what US troops and their families...
British police say a mail bomb intercepted last month at an English airport could have exploded in flight over the US East Coast. Scotland Yard says in a statement that the bomb could have gone off on Friday, October 29th, if it had not been found an...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Lakshmi Singh. President Obama is spending this day in Indonesia, where he's looking to shore up relations between the US and the worlds most populous Muslim nation. This trip to Indonesia was long delayed, but as NPRs...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A radical Sunni Muslim cleric born in the US is urging religious scholars to promote holy war against American and Israeli interests in the Middle East. NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson is in Cairo and repo...
President Obama today promised to make midcourse corrections following his party's election losses last week. He did not provide specifics. Mr. Obama spoke in Mumbai, India on the second day of a ten-day-long Asian tour. NPR's Corey Flintoff reports...
President Obama is on a trade mission to India. US companies are sending nearly ten billion dollars in exports to that country. NPR's Scott Horsley reports Mr. Obama sees India's fast-growing market as a big opportunity for US employers. An Indian po...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Obama is calling new employment numbers out today encouraging. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports on the president's comments at the White House before Mr. Obama left for a trip to Asia. President Obam...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Obama's charting a path for working with a newly empowered GOP in Congress. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports that following a cabinet meeting this morning, the president talked about his postelection...
President Obama has told Democratic supporters not to be discouraged by the election results giving Republicans control of the House. Mr. Obama says he's told Republican leaders he wants to cooperate on issues affecting the American people. I told Jo...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Obama is spending part of his election day on the radio. As NPR's Scott Horsley reports, he's urging Democrats to get to the polls in an effort to stem big losses. President Obama taped a seri...
A hotly contested issue this campaign season, immigration is the subject of a federal appeals court hearing today. Specifically it involves Arizona's immigration law. Arizona's Governor Republican Jan Brewer is appealing a lower court ruling that put...
Authorities are leaving no stone unturned in searching for all the explosives sent from Yemen in cargo planes. White House security adviser John Brennan says the investigation is going on all around the world. NPR's Carrie Johnson has more. US law en...
