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Obama Wants Bank Tax, Calls Bonuses 'Obscene'

With an emphatic and populist tone, President Obama on Thursday described bank bonuses as "obscene" and called for a new tax on Wall Street's largest firms to cover a projected $117 billion shortfall in the government's financial crisis bailout fund.
Posted: 01/14/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Obama's Senate Point Man Is In Trouble

Harry Reid meets with African-American supporters Thursday, in the wake of a brouhaha over racial comments he made about President Obama back in 2008. But his troubles may run deeper: Polls show the Democratic Senate majority leader trailing three would-be GOP opponents.
Posted: 01/14/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Bernanke Fights To Keep Fed's Power Over Banks

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke waged a fresh battle against Senate efforts to strip the Fed from banking supervision. He told Congress that stripping the Fed of such power would deprive the central bank of information needed to set interest rates.
Posted: 01/14/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Recovery Spreads But Doesn't Spur Hiring, Fed Says

The economic recovery is spreading to more parts of the country even as a growing number of people can't find full-time jobs, a Federal Reserve survey says. Conditions have improved modestly, but the job market in most regions remained "soft" as the new year began, the Fed said.
Posted: 01/13/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Haiti Awaits Aid As Crews Search For Survivors

The first cargo planes with food, water, medical supplies, shelter and sniffer dogs headed to the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation a day after the magnitude 7.0 quake flattened much of the capital of 2 million people. Haitian President Rene Preval says he believes the death toll stretches into the thousands.
Posted: 01/13/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Haiti's Buildings Weren't Fit To Withstand Quakes

The magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck a country whose buildings were barely built to engineering standards and were hopelessly fragile in the grip of such a strong quake. Haiti has no national building code, and many structures may not have been sound to begin with.
Posted: 01/14/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Logistics A Challenge For Groups Trying To Aid Haiti

While food, water, shelter and medical supplies are clearly needed following Tuesday's massive earthquake, relief groups are struggling to find the best way to get help to those who need it most. They are hampered by a lack of information from within the country and roads that are not passable.
Posted: 01/14/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Wall Street Forum To Focus On Minority Issues, Empowerment

Host Michel Martin speaks with the Rev. Jesse Jackson about his 13th annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit, hosted by Jackson's RainbowPUSH coalition. This year's summit focuses on strategies to invest in job creation, minority businesses and under-served communities.
Posted: 01/12/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Court Reinstates Death Penalty In Neo-Nazi Case

The Supreme Court reinstated the death sentence of a neo-Nazi who shot and killed three people and seriously wounded a fourth during a 1980s murder spree in Ohio. Frank Spisak, 57, was convicted during a sensational trial in which he grew an Adolf Hitler-style mustache, gave Nazi salutes to jurors and carried a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf.
Posted: 01/12/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

U.S. Soccer Star's Turn In Mexican Ad Prompts Uproar

In Mexico, a new advertisement featuring American soccer star Landon Donovan is being called racist, insensitive and, by some, hilarious. Donovan appears in a commercial for a new lottery dressed in a gigantic sombrero, a multicolored poncho and a huge fake mustache.
Posted: 01/12/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Mexico Arrests Accused 'Most-Wanted' Drug Lord

Teodoro Garcia Simental, known as "El Teo," is accused of terrorizing his way to the top of a gang fighting for control of key U.S. drug routes. Officials say he was to blame for many of the beheaded bodies found dumped in Tijuana and that he ordered hundreds of bodies to be dissolved in acid.
Posted: 01/12/2010 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines