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Beau Biden Says No To Senate Run In Delaware

In a surprise, Beau Biden, the state attorney general of Delaware, announced today he will not seek the Senate seat long held by his father, now the vice president.
Posted: 01/25/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Home Sales See Biggest Monthly Drop In 40 Years

Sales of previously occupied homes fell 16.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.45 million in December. Although the results missed Wall Street's expectations, the National Association of Realtors says there are signs the market is finally stabilizing.
Posted: 01/25/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Senate Support Grows For Fed's Bernanke

Support for Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's confirmation for a second four-year term mounted Monday as the White House appeared to stanch opposition that had roiled the financial markets. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid expects a vote by the end of the week, his spokesman said.
Posted: 01/25/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Delta To Revamp Old Planes Instead Of Buying New

Delta Air Lines Inc. will invest $1 billion over the next three-and-a-half years to improve customer service, remodel existing aircraft and improve fuel efficiency instead of buying new planes like some of its competitors.
Posted: 01/25/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

U.S. Envoy Fails To Lure Abbas Back To Mideast Talks

President Barack Obama's Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, was unable to persuade Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume peace talks with Israel, as Abbas stuck to his insistence that an Israeli settlement freeze come first.
Posted: 01/22/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Haiti Plans Massive Relocation Of Quake Survivors

Government officials say they hope to move 400,000 people from makeshift camps in Port-au-Prince, where homeless families have little or no sanitation, to camps in outlying areas to prevent the spread of disease. A U.N. spokeswoman said such a move, which could take weeks, would be temporary and voluntary.
Posted: 01/22/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Biden In Baghdad, Hoping To Salvage Elections

The vice president is in Baghdad to try to ease rising tensions that have threatened to delay Iraq's March elections. Biden wants to help resolve a dispute over whether hundreds of candidates should be blacklisted for their suspected links to Saddam Hussein's regime.
Posted: 01/22/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Bondsman Lobby Targets Pretrial Release Programs

The pretrial release program in Broward County, Fla., was working, but commissioners voted to gut the program nonetheless. Industry experts say powerful bail lobbying groups have begun using Broward as a road map of how to squash similar programs elsewhere.
Posted: 01/22/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Gate-Crashers To Congress: No Comment

Tareq and Michaele Salahi invoked their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination at a House hearing into their uninvited appearance at a White House state dinner.
Posted: 01/20/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Future Of Health Overhaul Rests With House Democrats

With Democrats' 60-vote majority in the Senate slipping away, the strongest option to pass health overhaul depends on the House adopting the bill that has already cleared the Senate, warts and all.
Posted: 01/20/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Bomb Search Follows Arrest In Virginia Mass Killings

Bomb teams searched Wednesday for explosive devices that may have been planted by a man accused of shooting eight people to death, then firing at a police helicopter before surrendering after a night in dense woods.
Posted: 01/20/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines