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President Obama answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House today in Washington, DC.
Minute-By-Minute: President Obama's News Conference
()LIVE BLOG: The president got questions on the economy, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and the controversy over a Florida church's on-again off-again plan to burn Qurans.
NPR documents the people behind high school football and the rituals that surround the game.
Energy
EPA Wants To Know Chemicals Used In Gas Drilling()
The Environmental Protection Agency asked nine natural gas companies to voluntarily disclose the chemical components used in a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing. The agency said the information is important to its study of the controversial drilling practice, also known as "fracking."
National Security
Homegrown Terrorists Pose Biggest Threat, Report Says()
The report by the Bipartisan Policy Center's National Security Preparedness Group also says al-Qaida doesn't have the ability to launch an extraordinary operation on the scale of Sept. 11 anymore. Instead, it must content itself with attacks that kill dozens or hundreds at a time.
2 Shot Dead At Kraft Cookie Plant In Philadelphia()
A woman who had just been suspended from her job and escorted from a Kraft Foods Inc. facility returned with a handgun and opened fire Thursday, killing two people and critically injuring a third before being taken into custody about an hour later, police said.
Law
Zapping Inmates To Control Them: Harmless Or Torture?()
Los Angeles authorities have unveiled a new high-tech device designed to get rowdy inmates in line: a mechanism that blasts millimeter beams that simulate intense heat. But the ACLU sent a letter to the L.A. sheriff asking him to reconsider what it says could be a torture device.
StoryCorps
Cleaning Up Sept. 11 Ashes Was 'Like A Communion'()
Jack Murray watched the Sept. 11 attacks unfold from the roof of his Manhattan apartment building. For two weeks, he cut steel beams for the search and rescue efforts at ground zero. John Romanowich worked for the city agency in charge of the cleanup and spent four months helping at the site.
Police: 2 Shot Dead At Kraft Plant In Pa., 1 Hurt()
September 9, 2010 A woman who had just been suspended from her job and escorted from a Kraft Foods Inc. facility in the city's northeast section on Thursday returned with a handgun and opened fire, killing two people and critically injuring a third, police said.
