Wall Street Journal: U.S. consumer confidence dropped sharply in June, as concerns over the sustainability of economic recovery and the outlook for jobs brought one closely watched indicator’s three-month streak of consecutive gains to an end. Separately, U.S. home prices rose in April from a month earlier, according to the S&P Case-Shiller home-price indexes, boosted [...]
The Hill: A Republican-held Congress might look to raise the retirement age to 70, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) suggested Monday. Boehner, the top Republican lawmaker in the House, said that raising the retirement age by five year, indexing benefits to the rate of inflation and means-testing benefits would make the massive entitlement program [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan told her confirmation hearings on Tuesday the Pentagon’s recruiters had access to Harvard Law School students “every single day I was dean,” adding that she believes military service is the most important way anyone can serve the country. In the opening moments of daylong testimony, Miss Kagan [...]
Fox News: A ring of 11 Russian moles right out of a Cold War spy novel was smashed Monday — and among those busted was a flame-haired, 007-worthy beauty who flitted from high-profile parties to top-secret meetings around Manhattan. Russian national Anna Chapman — a 28-year-old divorcee with a masters in economics, an online real-estate [...]
(Reuters) – China denied on Tuesday media reports that an artillery drill in the East China Sea was in response to a planned military exercise between South Korea and the United States. The 6-day, live ammunition exercise starting on Wednesday in the East China Sea off China’s coast was seen by some analysts as a [...]
LONDON (AP) — One of the Cold War’s most famous defectors says Russia may have as many as 50 deep-cover couples spying inside the United States. Oleg Gordievsky, a former deputy head of the KGB in London who defected in 1985, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev would know the number of illegal operatives in each [...]
NY Times: WASHINGTON — They had lived for more than a decade in American cities and suburbs from Seattle to New York, where they seemed to be ordinary couples working ordinary jobs, chatting to the neighbors about schools and apologizing for noisy teenagers. But on Monday, federal prosecutors accused 11 people of being part of [...]
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) – – Suspected U.S. missiles hit a house Tuesday in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border where the army has been battling Taliban fighters, intelligence officials said. At least 10 suspected militants were killed, including a possible Al Qaeda operative. The two missiles struck the house, which was near Wana, [...]
Jerusalem Post: A military strike against Iran would be “incredibly destabilizing” to the region said the US chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Admiral Mike Mullen. He believes Iran will continue to pursue nuclear weapons, even if sanctions against the country are increased. Speaking Monday at the Aspen Security Forum, Adm. Mike Mullen said [...]
