Iran is largely cut off from global commerce after a banking hub severed ties. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication or Swift is reinforcing sanctions the EU imposed in a bid to make Iran stop its nuclear development. Swift'...
Secretary of State Leon Panetta is reported to be safe following a security breach as his plane was landing at a British airfield in southern Afghanistan today. An Afghan national stole a car and sped onto a runway before it crashed into a ditch. NPR...
President Obama is condemning this week's attack on Afghan civilians allegedly at the hands of one US soldier, and hes promising swift punishment for anyone involved. The United States takes this as seriously as if it was our own citizens and our own...
Shock. That's how the Obama administration describes news that a US soldier in Afghanistan allegedly massacred 16 men, women and children in two villages over the weekend. The White House says a full investigation is underway. This as it works to kee...
US officials are trying to determine exactly what happened in a village in southern Afghanistan early this morning. Afghan officials say an American soldier went on a shooting spree, killing 16 civilians including nine children. Siddique Siddiqui is...
The campaign for the Republican nomination for president continues in Wyoming and Kansas today. There are 40 delegates up for grabs in the Kansas caucuses and a dozen in Wyoming. After Super Tuesday wins earlier this week, both Rick Santorum and Mitt...
The US is seeing its strongest three months of hiring since the start of the recession. The Labor Department reports an increase of 227,000 jobs in February. The numbers from the previous two months have also been revised upward. But the unemployment...
The US House has overwhelmingly passed a jobs bill. It contains a collection of six measures to help small businesses. NPR's Sonari Glinton reports the legislation drew rare bipartisan support. It's called the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act or J...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavone. President Obama is talking about energy prices today on a visit to North Carolina. He toured the Daimler truck plant in Mount Holly and made a pitch for affordable fuel-efficient cars and for his adm...
The Obama administration is out with new initiatives to help struggling homeowners. Under the plan outlined at the White House today, borrowers with FHA-insured mortgages will be able to refinance at half the fee currently charges. The president also...
President Obama is offering no sign as yet that the US has convinced Israel to hold its fire against Iran, where the government is suspected of working toward nuclear weapons. As he hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, the presiden...
In a fiery speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual policy conference today, President Obama declared the US will not hesitate to attack Iran with military force to prevent it from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Mr. Obama said tha...
From NPR News in Washington, Im Nora Raum. Rusty words are searching through rubble in several states after a stream of tornados yesterday that demolished small towns tones tractor trailers in the area and broke down power lines from the Gulf Coast t...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Syrian shelling as heard through amateur recording continues in parts of Homs. This as the Red Cross tries to gain access to the city's hardest-hit district Baba Amr. The organization says troops are bl...
The Senate's Democratic majority is blocking the GOP's bid to roll back President Obama's policy on contraception insurance coverage. The vote came down a day along party lines 51:48. It killed an amendment that would have allowed employers and insur...
