The presidents counterterrorism adviser says the US has so dismantled al-Qaeda that the potential for a near-term strike on US soil seems slim. John Brennan spoke on FOX News Sunday. He says the US remains mindful of the threats that could accompany...
On Rattlesnake Ridge in Washingtons Cascade Mountains, King County sheriffs believe they have found the dead body of Peter Keller. The survivalist had not been seen since last weekends killings of Kellers wife and daughter, for which hed been charged...
President Obama has signed an executive order designed to shield military families from deceptive marketing by for-profit schools. NPRs Scott Horsley reports the order came during a visit by the president and First Lady Michelle Obama to Fort Stewart...
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity by providing arms and ammunition to rebels during neighbor Sierra Leones ten-year civil war. However, the judges ruled that the prosecution faile...
The US Supreme Court is indicating it may allow Arizona to enforce parts of its immigration law known as SB 1070. That law includes a provision that requires police officers to ask about a persons immigration status, if he or shes suspected of being...
Five states are holding Republican primaries today. Mitt Romney is expecting victories in all of them. That will get him that much closer to the number of delegates needed to clinch the Republican Partys presidential nomination. But as NPRs Ari Shapi...
A bleak forecast for Social Security, the government says today the trust funds that support the program will run dry in 2033. And Medicare's hospital insurance fund is forecast to run out of money even sooner in 2024. President Obama will do tomorro...
Iran is claiming its building a copy of a US surveillance drone it captured last year. The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee is skeptical. NPRs Allison Keyes reports. Irans military says experts have extracted data from the RQ-170 Se...
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously today to increase the number of observers in Syria from 30 to 300. The monitors are there to see whether government troops and rebel forces are complying with a weeklong ceasefire. Violence has be...
The former neighborhood watch volunteer charged in the death of an unarmed black teenager in Florida is being released on 150,000 dollars bond while he awaits trial. George Zimmerman testified during his bond hearing today which included an apology t...
On the ground in Syria, unrelenting anger against the al-Assad regime is suggested by this amateur recording that could not be independently verified. It shows protesters gathered around UN observers in the southern province of Daraa, as the country...
The Pentagon says it is disturbed by newly released photos in the Los Angeles Times today purported to show American troops in Afghanistan posing near the bodies of insurgents back in 2010. NPR's Tom Bowman reports the paper was warned that publishin...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The White House is reaffirming support for the head of the Secret Service, whose subordinates are at the center of a prostitution scandal and possible security breach during President Obama's trip to Co...
Several additional members of the military may come under investigation for their possible involvement in an alleged scandal involving Secret Service agents and prostitutes ahead of President Obamas recent visit to Colombia. General Martin Dempsey, c...
Labor reforms in Colombia have cleared the way for the US-Colombia free trade agreement. NPR's Scott Horsley tells us the announcement came at the end of the Summit of the Americas. The free trade agreement was passed by Congress last fall, but its e...
