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As authorities continue the investigation into a failed car bomb discovered in a sport utility vehicle in Times Square, many New Yorkers are wondering what the incident says about how secure New York City is.
The Senate has not yet voted on a bill to regulate Wall Street. But over the weekend, the Senate's Banking Committee Chair Christopher Dodd (D-CT) agreed to toughen rules in the bill on derivatives. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) said on NBC's Meet the Press yesterday that he thought the Senate was getting closer to voting on a bill.
New York Times Chief Washington Correspondent David Sanger and his colleague, Thom Shanker, broke the story over the weekend that Defense Secretary Robert Gates sent a secret memo to the White House expressing his concern about America's long-term strategy toward Iran.
President Obama and top officials from 47 countries start work today on a plan to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists.
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens turns 90 years old in a few weeks. In this week's Washington Report on WQXR, David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent for The New York Times, discusses President Barack Obama's choices for Stevens' seat on the US Supreme Court.
President Barack Obama made a quick, secret trip to meet troops in Afghanistan on Sunday. He also met Afghan President Hamid Karzai to press for reforms.
House Democrats passed President Barack Obama's health care legislation late last night by seven votes.
President Barack Obama hits the road again today, hoping to shore up support for his health care reform plan. He's hoping the House will pass health care legislation this week.
Despite the violence across Iraq over the weekend, 55 to 60 percent of the country's voters turned out to vote in Sunday's national parliamentary elections. That's five to ten percent higher than last year's election turn-out.
President Barack Obama is in the midst of rewriting a document called the Nuclear Posture Review, which lays out the circumstances under which the U.S. would use nuclear weapons.
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