U.S. consumer confidence fell in July to the lowest level since February, weighed mostly by worries about the job market, according to a private sector report released Tuesday. The Conference Board, an industry group, said its index of consumer attitudes fell to 50.4 in July from a revised 54.3 in June.

A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program.

With a $13 trillion debt, why is the Department of Justice spending money on parties and rollercoaster rides rather than investigating crime, drug cartels, prosecuting terrorists? Questionable Spending at the Department of Justice is Poorly Monitored. Many of the grants are earmarked by Congress without the normal public review. Justice Department

President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders sought to soothe relations with the party's disgruntled left wing Saturday in advance of elections in which Republican gains could upend the White House agenda.

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Hundreds of residents of one of the poorest municipalities in Los Angeles County shouted in protest last night as tensions rose over a report that the city’s manager earns an annual salary of almost $800,000.

Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage. They join a small international club of...

Fox News' senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano said that Bush and Cheney should have been indicted for "torturing, for spying, for arresting without warrant...the whole idea that he could avoid and evade federal laws, treaties, federal judges and the Constitution was blatantly unconstitutional and in some cases criminal."

A Tea Party group in Missouri, reacting to the NAACP's plan to take up a resolution branding the conservative movement as "racist," has drafted a resolution of its own condemning the civil rights group for reducing itself to a "bigoted" and "partisan attack dog organization."

Democracies seem to be closely related to high GDPs.... with one huge exception: China.