Target sites assumed guilty until proven innocent under U.S. law While many sports fans are preparing for Sunday's Super Bowl by organizing parties and shopping for TVs, the U.S. government is preparing in a different way. Just yesterday, the U.S. Immi… more »

Traders at the New York Stock Exchange see shares tumble as S&P cut its outlook on US from stable to negative. Photograph Andrew Gombert/EPA UK Guardian Larry Elliott, Economics editor Shares fell heavily on Wall Street on Monday after a l… more »

Reuters/CNBC.com Standard & Poor's on Monday downgraded the outlook for the United States to negative, saying it believes there's a risk U.S. policymakers may not reach agreement on how to address the country's long-term fiscal pressures.… more »

PoliticoBy CHRIS FRATES |  Caught between their boss’s anti-lobbyist rhetoric and the reality of governing, President Barack Obama’s aides often steer meetings with lobbyists to a complex just off the White House grounds – and several of the lobb… more »

Haaretz.com By Yanir Yagna, Gili Cohen and Natasha Mozgovaya Grad rockets were fired at the southern Israeli city of Be'er Sheva on Wednesday, several hours after the Israel Defense Forces fired at a group of militants on the Gaza border, wounding 11… more »