Search results for

Los Angeles city leaders consider whether police should stop responding to most home and office burglar alarms that have not been verified by an eyewitness. Homeowners and alarm companies say that would-be burglars will get the wrong signal. NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports.

In the AFC championship, the Cincinnati Bengals will try to stop the Kansas City Chiefs from a potential third consecutive appearance at the Super Bowl.

Starting Tuesday, if you're fully vaccinated and boosted, you do not have to wear a mask anymore in the city in certain places such as the office, the gym or in the classroom.

In the deadliest single attack since the fall of Saddam Hussein, a car bomb kills at least 115 people and wounds more than 130. The suicide bomber struck as prospective members of the country's police and national guard lined up for physical exams in the city of Hilla, south of Baghdad.

Officials plan services for Pope John Paul II, who died Saturday. The public will be able view the pontiff's body for the first time Monday. Rome and Vatican City expect more than 2 million mourners. The pope's funeral is set for Friday morning and his body is to be interred in the grotto at St. Peter's Basilica.

President Bush meets with New York City firefighters, reinforcing the Republican convention's focus on Bush's post-Sept. 11 actions. The local firefighters' union endorses Bush, but most other firefighter unions across the country back Sen. John Kerry. Hear NPR's Don Gonyea.

A handful of residents in New London, Conn. are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to save their homes. The city wants to level the modest neighborhood and redevelop the area as a way to improve its tax base. Diane Orson from WNPR in New Haven reports on the conflict over eminent domain.

The top U.S. commander in northern Iraq says that this week's deadly attack on a U.S. base near the city of Mosul may have been the work of a suicide bomber wearing an Iraqi military uniform. Brig. Gen. Carter Ham says he is concerned the attack's success may encourage similar attempts. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports.

Efforts are under way to arrange a ceasefire in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City, where militiamen loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been battling U.S. forces. Sadr's aides have been negotiating with officials of Iraq's interim government, but no deal has yet been announced. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

The northern Iraq city of Mosul sits astride the Tigris River on the main road south to the Sunni heartland and the capital, Baghdad. As a result, it is considered a key prize in the Iraq war and an intense struggle to control the streets is under way. Philip Reeves is embedded with U.S. forces in Mosul.