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On this date in 1911, the first trans-continental flight came to an end. And in 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt beat an Akron native to win re-election for...

It was on this date in 1916 that Italian singer Enrico Caruso recorded one of his greatest hits, "O Sole Mio." And it was on this date in 1919 that Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith founded United Artists as a joint venture company.

Protests are held in Washington, D.C., and in San Francisco, to oppose the continued U.S. occupation of Iraq. Demonstrators in the nation's capital also focused on the U.S.A. Patriot Act. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Andrea Seabrook.

A federal panel approves Pentagon plans to close the Army's Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The Pentagon proposes to move most of the operations at Walter Reed to the nearby Bethesda Naval Hospital with some services going to a new facility to be built at Fort Belvoir, Va.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has announced that he has filed papers to create a presidential exploratory committee. The announcement is a first step in the senator's potential 2008 run for president.

Americans honored veterans around the country Sunday in celebration of Veterans Day. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke to mourners gathered at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. It is the 25th anniversary of the memorial wall.

The actor busted out the cover during a Tenacious D concert.

Six of the nine Ohioans who were exonerated after being sentenced to death want state lawmakers to consider changes to capital punishment in Ohio.Joe…

Flashstarts , a Cleveland business accelerator, is making its first investment of this year in an Akron-based company that grows 3D models of tumors....

The FBI says it has video footage of Rep. Bill Jefferson (D-LA) accepting $100,000 from an FBI informant. Jefferson, who has not been charged with anything, insists that he has committed no crime. NPR's Brian Naylor reports.