A climate change bill squeaked through the House last month. Now the question is whether a 60-vote Democratic supermajority can succeed in the Senate, where past efforts have failed. But Democrats have already pushed back a self-imposed deadline.
The Obama family is on a plane back to the U.S. after a whirlwind visit to Ghana. It was the first visit to sub-Saharan Africa for this African-American president. NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton talks with Guy Raz about Obama's visit.
The CIA last week launched a review of how it briefs key members of Congress after House Democrats complained that the CIA has been misleading Congress for the past eight years. House Intelligence Committee chairman Silvestre Reyes says his committee was "deliberately lied to."
This week, President Obama traveled to Russia, Europe and Africa, while back at home, political surprises and scandals keep politics bubbling.
The U.S. Senate is about to take up the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, and there are real cheers — not Bronx cheers — all over the borough where she was born. Her confirmation hearings begin next week, and in the Bronx, they will be followed almost as closely as the New York Yankees.
How might the economy affect President Obama's popularity — and thus his policies? Abroad, his arms limitation agreement with the Russians may already have fallen apart.
Now that it's emerging from bankruptcy in record time, what's next for GM? Getting out of bankruptcy is one thing — building and selling millions of cars that consumers want may be a bigger challenge.
At a shelter in Reynosa, Mexico, a group of men reflect on their recent deportations. Many were sent back to Mexico after committing crimes in the United States. On top of that, the distressed economy is squeezing illegal workers out of their low-wage jobs.
President Barack Obama arrives in Ghana on Friday for his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office.
A Canadian judge rules that even though excluding female ski jumpers from the 2010 Winter Olympics amounts to discrimination, there is nothing Canadian courts can do about it. In their lawsuit, 15 women had argued that the men-only event violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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