From NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Raum. The White House said today it's taking seriously new threats by North Korea, but said that Pyongyang has a history of what it called bellicose rhetoric. North Korea warned Seoul today that the Korean Penins...
From NPR news in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Environment Protection Agency is proposing new rules to clean up gasoline in order to reduce air pollution. NPR's Richard Harris reports the changes would require the nation to meet California's cur...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Search warrants released today in the Newtown school shooting describe an arsenal of weapons found in the home and car of shooter, Adam Lanza. NPR's Margot Adler reports the rampage during which Lanza k...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The majority of Supreme Court justices may be leaning towards striking down 1996 Defense of Marriage Act with a potential swing vote from Justice Anthony Kennedy. That is if they get to the merits of DO...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. U.S. Supreme Court justices are weighing landmark cases on same-sex marriage and questioning whether they took up the issues too soon. NPR's Nina Totenberg says the first of two days arguments focused o...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. US stocks pared losses but investors are still worried about the future of the Euro zone. At last glance the Dow was down 62 points at 14,415; NASDAQ off ten at 3,235 and S%P 500 down five at 1,552. So...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. Secretary of State John Kerry is urging Iraq to stop its neighbor Iran from using Iraqi airspace to ship weapons and fighters to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. NPR's Michele Kelemen rep...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. It took all night, but the Senate passed a budget just before dawn today. The vote was 50:49. It's been four years since the Senate last adopted a budget blueprint. And Republican leader Mitch McConnell...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman. It took all night, but the Senate passed a budget just before dawn today. The vote was 50:49. It's been four years since the Senate last adopted a budget blueprint. And Republican leader Mitch McConnell...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Obama is wrapping up his trip to the Middle East where he worked to repair strained relations with Israel, addressed the peace process with Palestinians, in this hour, shoring up U.S. ties wit...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. There will be no government shutdown next week. Today, the House approved a continuing resolution by a vote of 318:109 that keeps federal agencies funded to September 30th. The measure, which has alread...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Obama is on a fence-mending mission to Israel, his first official visit since taking office. He and his host Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appear to publicly thaw their sometimes frosty re...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Cyprus is going back to the drawing board after it scrapped a bailout measure that sent shock waves to world markets this week. In Nicosia, John Psaropoulos reports lawmakers have voted down a bill to i...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Obama Administration is closely monitoring the situation in Cyprus, which is considering taxing all of its bank depositors to help pay for a bailout of that country's financial system. But NPR's Cra...
From NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Raum. A judge in Steubenville, Ohio today found two high school football players guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl. He sentenced both to at least a year in detention. NPR's David Schaper reports Ohio Attorney G...
