Search results for

To Lam, who oversaw police and intelligence operations at a time when rights groups say basic freedoms had been suppressed, was confirmed amid a major reshuffle of the country's top leadership.

Florence Nightingale once warned about a major cruelty inflicted on sick people: unnecessary noise. And despite advances in medicine, researchers say today's hospitals are still as noisy as bus stations. But at Johns Hopkins Hospital, engineers are trying to create some peace and quiet.

From member station KPBS in San Diego, Carrie Kahn reports on the Iraqi Christians who are seeking asylum in U.S Already, 75 refugees have crossed from Mexico into the U.S., and over a hundred are still waiting. Most of them sneaked out of Iraq, then spend several years in Turkey or Greece before heading to Mexico.

In May, North Korean leaders hinted to a visiting U.S scholar that they're willing to resume negotiations with the United States on nuclear arms. But if those talks are revived, North Korea wants to focus on mutual steps toward a denuclearized Korean peninsula. The Bush administration has said repeatedly it doesn't want to depart from six-way nuclear talks.

The leaders of California's high-speed rail project say they've learned from past mistakes. But the troubled megaproject faces an uncertain future with $4 billion in federal funding tied up in court.

Taylor Greene's testimony is part of an effort by a voter group to disqualify her from running again in 2022.

Democratic senators are seeking sanctions against Honduras' president for alleged human rights abuses and corruption, and looking to suspend U.S. security assistance to Honduran security forces.

Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marine Corps, has a new plan to recruit and retain Marines, as the service seeks to prioritize growing a corps of highly skilled and educated workers.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with former Department of Defense special counsel and New York University law professor Ryan Goodman about the Jan. 6 committee's fifth public hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday.

Two Senators want to create an intelligence command center inside the Pentagon to oversee all eight intelligence agencies. Sens. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) have introduced the legislation, which would alter the intelligence reform law passed last December.