A federal judge says Oklahoma's new state constitution amendment banning the same sex marriage violates the federal constitution. But the judge is putting his role on hold pending appeal of a nearly identical lawsuit in Utah. Mxx with member station...
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Iran is supposed to start rolling back parts of its nuclear programmes starting January 20th in exchange for some sanctions relief. Now this (interrim) deal is going into a (furt). The US and other world power has 6 months to negotiate a more complet...
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Weaker-than-expected job growth in December is raising questions about whether the economy is as strong as previously thought. As NPRs Shortage explains lots of economists are actually skeptical of the governments December unemployment report accurat...
President Obama has met with a select group of senators and representitives as he contitues his review of government inteligents gathering programmes. It's NPR's T.K explains - The president would soon announce what revision is? If any would be made...
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6 senate Republicans join Democrats today in biding back a GOP filibuster or a bill was to restore jobless benefits for 1.3 million long-term unemployed Americans whose benefits expired just after Christmas. But NPRs David Welna reports, the bill wou...
Janet Yellen was confirmed by the Senate today to be the first woman to head the Federal Reserve. As NPRs Johnny Stick explains Yellen gained bipartisan support. The vote to confirm Yellen was 56 to 26 with eleven Republicans joining all the Democrat...
A life-threatening wind chill is griping states in the northern and central U.S. It is minus 21 in Grand Forx, North Dakota. Tauso, Oklahoma faces wind chills tonight of minus ten to twenty degrees. Authorities in nearly half (of) the country are war...
Another arctic blast is about to turn the Midwestern US into an icebox. Cold air from the arctic is pushing down into the US as far-south as the Golf Coast. From Minnesota public radio, Mets Sepic reports several states are getting ready for bone-chi...
Federal Reserve board chairman Ben Bernanke was consciously optimistic about the economy at the annual meeting of the America economic association in Philadelphia today. Steve Backner of market news international says the soon-to-retire chief said he...
New England is bracing for a winter storm. The Massachusetts port authorities have already put in place a plan to ground planes at Bostons Louger International Airport. WUBHs Eibic Pjudal reports from the airport the last departure will be in about h...
The Obama administration says it remains confident that it will prevail in a series of lawsuits challenging the requirement some religious organization ensure their workers have access to contraceptive coverage under the affordable care acts. As NPRs...
The Obama administration is reporting more than six million people will have health insurance beginning tomorrow, many for the first time. As NPRs Julie Rovner explains that includes those who signed up for private insurance qualified for Medicaid. I...
