Good morning, folks. Susan Boyle might be on Glee. Now, your morning constitutional:
Lebanese and Israeli soldiers have exchanged fire on their shared border; each side has reported casualties.
In the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry on Tuesday, an Irish Republican Army splinter group detonated a bomb in a hijacked taxi outside of a police station. Buildings were damaged but nobody was injured.
The ethics charges against Reps. Waters and Rangle highlight Washington’s new vigilance in detecting indiscretions by members of Congress.
Fifty-four percent of Americans want the Senate to confirm Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court while 34% oppose, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll.
Fossil fuels are globally subsidized at a rate of 12 times that of renewable fuels, a new study shows.
George Packer at the New Yorker on how broken the Senate is and how difficult it would be to fix it.
In the midst of a down-turned economy and resentment of foreigners, Neo-Nazi groups are on the rise in Mongolia.
The Security and Exchanges Commission wants to levy large penalties to show that it is tough on companies that break rules; however, these penalties are often paid for by the same shareholders who were hurt by the offense in the first place.
America’s Peculiar Amnesia: People have already forgotten how George W. Bush and the Republican Congress expanded government spending.
Man gets a year in jail for grabbing helicopter as it was taking off.
Does drinking beer increase your attractiveness to mosquitoes?
Finally, the story of a man who drank a beer every mile of a half-marathon.
