‘I honestly can’t answer that question,’ Admiral Mike Mullen says in Afghanistan msnbc.com news services updated 7/30/2011 4:53:24 AM ET 2011-07-30T08:53:24 CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — A half a world away from the Capitol Hill deadlock, the economy and debt crisis are weighing heavily on U.S. troops in Afghanistan. And the top question on their minds Saturday [...]

By Matthew Melchiorre Published July 29, 2011 FoxNews.com If I didn’t know any better, I’d be on the lookout Tuesday for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. With Aug. 2 just around the corner, President Barack Obama, Treasury Secretary Geithner, and not-so-fiscally-conservative Republicans warn of Armageddon if they don’t get their spending fix on time. [...]

By Bob Dane Published July 29, 2011 FoxNews.com This week President Obama told the National Council of La Raza that he can’t get illegal alien amnesty legislation passed because Republicans oppose it, “so let’s be honest I need a dance partner here. And the floor is empty.” Ok Mr. President, let’s be honest.  Amnesty is [...]

By Adam Housley Published July 29, 2011 FoxNews.com Mexican drug cartels have stepped up the pressure and are attempting to smuggle narcotics into the United States in alarming numbers and in increasingly creative ways.  From methamphetamine stuffed inside a car battery, to black-tar heroin wedged in a drive shaft, to fuel tanks filled with drugs [...]

By Jeanne Sahadi @CNNMoney July 29, 2011: 6:51 PM ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — There certainly are some big differences between the debt-ceiling bill proposed by House Speaker John Boehner and the one proposed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. But there is also more than $900 billion’s worth of compromise between the two. Both [...]

July 29, 2011|By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff Boston Scientific Corp. said yesterday that it plans to eliminate 1,200 to 1,400 jobs worldwide during the next 2 ½ years to free money for new investments, the Natick medical device maker’s second major round of cuts since last year. The company would not say how many jobs [...]

By John Roberts Published July 28, 2011 FoxNews.com The unemployment situation across America is bad, no doubt. But for African-Americans in some cities, this is not the great recession. It’s the Great Depression. Take Charlotte, N.C., for example. It is a jewel of the “new South.” The largest financial center outside of New York City, [...]

July 29, 2011 By Lisa de Moraes Singer Harry Belafonte, subject of an upcoming HBO documentary about his political activism, was asked what he would say to the White House and Congress about the gamesmanship in which they are engaged over the national debt. “My question would be, to Congress and the president: What happened [...]

BY Anjali Mullany DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Originally Published:Friday, July 29th 2011, 4:45 PM Updated: Friday, July 29th 2011, 10:57 PM President Obama brought his debt battle to Twitter and he lost – more than 40,000 Twitter followers. Obama asked Americans Friday to call, email, and tweet Congressional leaders to “keep the pressure on” lawmakers [...]

By Lori Montgomery and Paul Kane, Published: July 29 | Updated: Saturday, July 30, 6:35 AM House GOP leaders won narrow approval of a plan to raise the federal debt limit Friday after revising the measure to appeal to rebellious conservatives, but it was quickly shot down in the Senate, where Democrats began pushing their [...]