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In the wake of a deadly soccer riot in Egypt's Port Said earlier this year, 75 people face murder charges, while the local team has been banned and the stadium shuttered. Now, officials and residents say the tragedy has destroyed their city's reputation and left them in financial trouble.

The White House will tomorrow renominate more than a dozen candidates for judicial positions on federal courts, a person familiar with the administration's plans tells NPR. The Senate failed to vote on the nominees last year.

Employers boosted jobs at a faster pace in October than at any time in nearly half a year, but the unemployment rate remained stubbornly at 9.6 percent — further evidence of what the Federal Reserve has termed a "disappointingly slow" recovery.

The governor is threatening to sell off two parcels of state-owned land in Grand Teton National Park to private developers. The state wants the federal government to come up with a fair trade. The land is worth more than $100 million, but the state is hardly earning any income from leasing the land.

As doctors report improvements in Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' condition, law enforcement officials are discussing what charges to pursue against accused Tucson shooter Jared Loughner.

Minutes after he was re-elected in November, President Obama vowed to fix the long lines that many voters faced at the polls. He mentioned the problem again in his inaugural address. And now, the president is expected to raise it once more in the State of the Union address on Tuesday -- this time with some possible solutions.

A San Diego garbage collector who picks up yard waste at Mitt Romney's La Jolla home will keep his route for now, despite appearing in an online video that slams the Republican presidential candidate, a city spokesman said today.

The Daily Report is a roundup of the morning's top military news.

Five years ago on the last day of February, he told Congress the economy's fundamentals were strong. On this last day of February 2012, he predicted that inflation will remain in check.

A stay has been granted supporters of Proposition 8 that will ban same-sex marriages from taking place in California indefinitely. On this Legal Update we'll discuss the Prop 8 appeal process. We'll also examine which parts of Arizona's new immigration law were blocked by a federal judge and why legal marijuana can still get you fired.