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U.S. Lends Plug-In Car Maker $529 Million

Fisker Automotive, a California manufacturer of luxury electric vehicles, will receive more than $500 million in federal loans to develop a plug-in hybrid sports car with a sticker price of nearly $90,000 and a new plug-in hybrid vehicle. The government previously awarded $8 billion in loans to Ford, Nissan and Tesla to develop environmentally friendly cars.
Posted: 09/22/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Ousted President Returns To Honduras

Deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya made a dramatic return Monday to the country's capital. Zelaya took shelter from arrest at Brazil's embassy, and called for talks with the leaders who ousted him from power. Zelaya was flown out of the country on June 28.
Posted: 09/21/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Federal Judge: Grizzly Bears Still Threatened

In a ruling delivered Monday, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy restored protections for an estimated 600 grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park, citing in part a decline in their food supply caused by climate change.
Posted: 09/21/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Obama Faces Tough Issues In U.N. Debut

President Obama makes his first appearance at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, carrying an ambitious agenda and a cooperative tone. But experts say he may find it hard to get results.
Posted: 09/21/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Bank Of America To Pay U.S. $425M To Exit Agreement

The deal allows Bank of America to exit a costly arrangement whereby the government would have shouldered losses on risky assets from the bank's takeover of Merrill Lynch.
Posted: 09/21/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Tiny Parks Sprout In Parking Spots

For one day each year, residents transform parking spaces across San Francisco into miniature parks.
Posted: 09/20/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Three Arrested In Terrorism Probe

The FBI arrested a 24-year-old man, his father and an associate on charges of making false statements in a terror investigation that some law enforcement officials are calling this the most serious probe since 2001.
Posted: 09/20/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

NASA Launches Rocket, Dozens Report Strange Lights

NASA says it successfully launched a rocket in Virginia as part of an experiment, and the blast may have caused dozens of people to report seeing strange lights in the sky.
Posted: 09/20/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

New Era For Disney As Studio Chief Steps Down

A new era has begun for the Walt Disney Co. following the abrupt resignation of studio chief Dick Cook, who has been with the company for nearly four decades.
Posted: 09/20/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Indonesia Police: Terrorist Mastermind Killed In Raid

Noordin Muhammed Top is accused of heading a splinter group of the al-Qaida-funded regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah and has been implicated in every major attack in Indonesia since 2002, including two separate bombings on the resort island of Bali that together killed 222 people, mostly foreigners.
Posted: 09/17/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines

Denver Home Depot Sales Inspected For Terrorism Clues

Officials say FBI agents are visiting Home Depot stores in the Denver area in search of leads on some suspects who may have purchased chemicals used to make explosives. The visits are part of a larger U.S. terrorism investigation that led to raids — but no arrests — earlier this week.
Posted: 09/17/2009 News Headlines / Storys Provided by : NPR News Headlines