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President-elect Barack Obama's choice for secretary of Housing and Urban Development got a friendly welcome at his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday. Shaun Donovan said his top priority at HUD will be to address the foreclosure crisis, which he said has led to some 2 million families losing their homes last year.

As a Senate panel heard testimony from attorney general designee Eric Holder, several of Barack Obama's other Cabinet picks continued Thursday to work their way toward Senate confirmation.

U.S. officials tell NPR about what they say is a "significant" victory in the war against al-Qaida in Pakistan. A CIA strike on New Year's Day is said to have killed the terrorist organization's chief of operations in Pakistan, along with his top lieutenant. If the U.S. intelligence is true, this is an important development.

Members of the media got an early glimpse at the annual Detroit Auto Show Sunday. How are U.S. automakers displaying their newest wares amid difficult financial circumstances?

For the past year, two men — one Israeli, one Palestinian — have been blogging about their lives on opposite sides of the Israeli-Gaza border. Online, they call themselves Hope Man and Peace Man.

The nation's unemployment rate stands at 7.2 percent. Employers cut 524,000 jobs in December. The losses were large and widespread in nearly every industry. It's the 12th straight month of declines. In 2008, more than 2.5 million jobs were cut from payrolls — the most jobs lost since 1945.

Mark Regev tells NPR that Israel's ground operation in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip could "end tomorrow — if we can be assured that the civilian population in the southern part of our country will no longer be on the receiving end of these terrible Hamas rockets."

The nation's unemployment rate shot up to 7.2 percent last month. It's the highest level in nearly 16 years. Governments and businesses cut more than half a million jobs in December. For all of 2008, the economy lost 2.6 million jobs.

The US Airways plane that crashed in the Hudson River had hit a bird and two engines were disabled.

Christopher Butler, a producer at Nickelodeon, witnessed the crashing of US Airways Flight 1549 that was en route to Charlotte, N.C., from LaGuardia Airport. He said he was sitting at his desk when a co-worker alerted him to what was happening.