Search results for

Rumors are swirling about the make up of President Bush's second term cabinet. Alexis Simendinger, a White House correspondent for National Journal, talks about the significance of changes and the contenders for some Cabinet positions.

NPR's John Burnett reports on the situation in Saddam City, the sprawling Shiite neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. It began as a huge housing development in the 1960s but has become a slum. Marines in Saddam City have encountered ecstatic crowds and utter destitution.

The four-man ensemble of mirth and surrealism, Firesign Theatre, tells us they are stumped to find anything funny about Presidents Day. They turn to the TV for inspiration and we hear a series of odds and ends dealing with the presidency: A series about presidential siblings, a president-for-a-day contest and a White House poetry slam.

Part of the Senate energy bill is a proposal by McCain and Lieberman that would require industry to roll back greenhouse emissions to where they were five years ago by 2010. But industry groups and the White House are opposing the measure.

President Bush says the United States will invest $50 million in the Palestinian Authority's construction efforts after Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip. The announcement came after a White House meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Navarro failed to comply with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee in the House of Representatives.

Voting concludes Tuesday in Rhode Island's primary elections, including for governor and a U.S. House seat.

Sprawling offices are being turned into housing, demolished in some cases and often just being left vacant.

In Nevada, incumbent Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto won her Senate race to seal Democrat's control of the Senate. But well over a dozen House races haven't been called yet.

The U.S. Department of Education and Housing and Urban Development define who is a homeless child differently.