By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. Published: February 3, 2012 If you thought the Republican primaries had turned ugly, wait till you see what it takes to win an Air Force contract nowadays. The feud between Hawker Beechcraft and Sierra Nevada Corporation over the Light Air Support contract has escalated from the usual appeals to the [...]

Feb 4, 2012 (CBS/AP)  Last Updated at 7:23 a.m. Eastern. WASHINGTON — Dozens of U.S. Park Police officers in riot gear and on horseback converged before dawn Saturday on one of the nation’s last remaining Occupy sites. Officers arrived and placed barricades around McPherson Square, a federal park near the White House where demonstrators have [...]

Friday, 03 Feb 2012, 12:24 PM EST ST. LOUIS – The St. Louis parade welcoming home Iraq War and other post-Sept. 11 veterans is spurring talk of similar parades in at least 10 other cities. Organizers of the parade that drew an estimated 100,000 observers and 20,000 participants in St. Louis on Jan. 28 say [...]

by Tyler Durden on 02/03/2012 A month ago, we joked when we said that for Obama to get the unemployment rate to negative by election time, all he has to do is to crush the labor force participation rate to about 55%. Looks like the good folks at the BLS heard us: it appears that [...]

Feb 3, 2012 you know what i said at 308 eastern? we want a million jobs an hour. that’s what we want. what we got looked like a good report. i said let’s get the calculator out and i did. so did my sources and big blogs many people read like zero hedge. the labor [...]

By John McCormick and Amanda J. Crawford – Feb 3, 2012 9:00 PM PT Mitt Romney is looking to solidify his front-runner status in the Republican presidential nomination race today with a win in Nevada’s caucuses, a victory that polls show is within his grasp. Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Romney’s closest rival, is [...]

By Nicole Gaouette and Jonathan Ferziger – Feb 3, 2012 1:21 PM PT The U.S. and Israel are publicly disagreeing over timing for a potential attack on Iran’s disputed nuclear facilities, as that nation’s leader said it won’t back down. The U.S. and Israel have a “significant analytic difference” over estimates of how close Iran [...]

By RICHARD ESPOSITO Feb. 3, 2012 Israeli facilities in North America — and around the world — are on high alert, according to an internal security document obtained by ABC News that predicted the threat from Iran against Jewish targets will increase. “We predict that the threat on our sites around the world will increase [...]

Feb 3, 2012 By NASSER KARIMI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran successfully launched a new small satellite into orbit early Friday, state media reported, the latest in the country’s ambitious space program that has raised concerns in the West because of its possible military applications. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called in to the launch [...]

An Iranian missile under construction, caught up in a mysterious blast in November, had a range of 6,000 miles, a senior Israeli official said Thursday in a speech outside Tel Aviv. By Howard LaFranchi, Staff writer / February 2, 2012 Is Iran trying to develop a missile that could reach the “Great Satan”? The missile under [...]