By Matthew Robinson NEW YORK | Thu Jun 23, 2011 (Reuters) – Oil tumbled 6 percent on Thursday to a four-month low after the world’s top consumers released emergency oil reserves for the third time ever, a surprise intervention to aid the struggling global economy. The International Energy Agency announced it would inject 60 million [...]

Jun 22, 5:57 PM (ET) By PAUL WISEMAN and MARTIN CRUTSINGER WASHINGTON (AP) – The economy’s continuing struggles aren’t just confounding ordinary Americans. They’ve also stumped the head of the Federal Reserve. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told reporters Wednesday that the central bank had been caught off guard by recent signs of deterioration in the [...]

By: Kytja Weir | Examiner Staff Writer Follow Her @kytja | 06/23/11 3:03 PM It may feel like officials are shutting down Metro stations for suspicious packages all the time. Well, you aren’t imagining it. Metro has responded to 339 calls for service in the first half of 2011 involving a suspicious person, package, bomb [...]

Jun 22, 10:16 PM (ET) By BRADLEY KLAPPER MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is questioning the priorities of lawmakers criticizing the U.S. intervention in Libya. She’s asking bluntly, “Whose side are you on?” Setting up a showdown on Libya, House Republicans agreed Wednesday to vote on dueling measures, [...]

June 23, 2011 Dana Ritter CBN News During his remarks to troops at Fort Drum today, the President was reminiscing about the times he has spent with the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division, when he got something wrong. “Throughout my service, first as a senator and then as a presidential candidate and then as a [...]

June 23, 2011 By: Patrick Allen CNBC In less than 40 years India will overtake the US as the world’s second-largest trading nation, pushing today’s superpower into third place and Europe in to the little leagues, according to a new report by Citi. “According to our projections, world trade in goods and services will grow [...]

GOP Team Withdraws, Leaving Obama and Boehner to Negotiate a Final Deal June 24, 2011 WSJ The drive for a major deficit-reduction deal entered a new phase Thursday when Republican negotiators pulled out of bipartisan talks, leaving it to President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner to resolve the toughest issues. House Majority Leader [...]

President Obama declares victory before it’s been achieved. June 22, 2011 WSJ President Obama delivered a remarkable speech last night, essentially unplugging the Afghanistan troop surge he proposed only 18 months ago and doing so before its goals have been achieved. We half expected to see a “mission accomplished” banner somewhere in the background. Not [...]

Politics is the mulligan that put us $14.3 trillion in debt. June 23, 2011 WSJ By DANIEL HENNINGER On Saturday the planets aligned to give us Rory McIlroy making golf history at Congressional Country Club on the same day Barack Obama and John Boehner were at Andrews Air Force Base, finding some fellow feeling in [...]

The MSNBC hostess’s radical defense of corporate constitutional rights. June 22, 2011 WSJ By JAMES TARANTO “The case of Acorn v. U.S. ended with a whimper this week,” The Wall Street Journal notes in an editorial: The U.S. Supreme Court turned aside the advocacy group’s attempt to revive its lawsuit claiming that Congress had acted [...]