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Southern Israel communities have been under fire since Wednesday  morning, as Gaza terrorists have stepped up their rocket and mortar attacks at Negev residents.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that the "only path to ensure Israel’s future as a secure democratic and Jewish state" is an Arab state, headed by the Palestinian Authority, "alongside" Israel.

The American-mediated talks in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt got off to a rocky start Tuesday morning but concluded in the early afternoon without any disruptions. More talks were scheduled in Jerusalem and Ramallah Wednesday.

Hamas continued to gain strength this past summer as about 100,000 youngsters underwent radical anti-Israel indoctrination at dozens of summer camps run by the terrorist group.

One month after taking a stand against construction of the proposed Islamic Cultural Center near the destroyed World Trade Center site in Manhattan, the Anti-Defamation League has started an interfaith coalition meant to help American Muslim communities that are facing opposition to the building of mosques.

A celebratory Christine O'Donnell thanked her supporters, the Tea Party and Sarah Palin on the night of her stunning win in Delaware's Republican Senate primary.

A new poll indicates that only one in four Americans say they trust the government to do what is right always or most of the time.

Bloomberg is reporting that the slide in U.S. home prices may have another three years to go as sellers add as many as 12 million more properties to the market.

CNBC is running an article that contains this stunning headline: "Home Price Double Dip Begins".

Are U.S. consumers completely and totally tapped out?

A new study obtained by CNBC says Americans are $6.6 trillion short of what they need to retire.

The number of former workers seeking Social Security disability benefits has spiked along with the nation's economic problems, heightening concern that the jobless are expanding the program beyond its intended purpose of aiding the disabled.

Most of the American people do not realize this, but the U.S. economy is losing a significant amount of wealth every single month.

One prominent economist is projecting that the Chinese economy will be three times larger than the U.S. economy by the year 2040.

Japan has stepped into the foreign exchange market for the first time since 2004, pushing down the value of its surging yen.

As we head into the fall, are we going to see currency wars break out?

Billionaire financier George Soros said Wednesday that gold prices might continue to rise after hitting record highs this week but he renewed a warning that gold is the "ultimate bubble".

Taxes must rise while fiscal stimulus needs to be wound down in order to reduce the U.S. budget deficit and allow private investment to expand, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan told an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York on Wednesday.

The EU is demanding recognition as a state by the United Nations.

During an appearance on ABC’s “Good Morning America” to promote his book, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer was indecisive when answering a question about whether or not Pastor Terry Jones’ proposed Koran burning was protected by free speech, suggesting that “globalization” now trumps the First Amendment in the eyes of lawmakers.

A social engineering bill to restrict residence in the suburbs and rural areas and force Americans into city centers has passed the United States Senate Banking Committee and is on the fast track to passage in the Senate.

Members of the Andover Tea Party in Ohio have been informed that they cannot hold a public rally in the Town’s central square on Constitution Day (September 17) because of the group’s “political affiliation”.

Pennsylvania’s Democrat governor Ed Renell is reportedly “deeply embarrassed” by the disclosure that state Homeland Security officials have designated anti-tax protesters and other folks exercising their First Amendment right to petition the government as a threat to the state’s infrastructure.

Is it soon going to be illegal to share food you grew in your garden with your neighbors?

On June 10th, Barack Obama quietly signed an executive order that some claim lays the foundation for implementing Codex Alimentarius.

Starting this month, the Unique Identification Authority of India will begin the long process of matching each of its billion-plus citizens with a unique ID number. The number will be tied to three pieces of biometric data: fingerprints of all 10 digits, iris scans of both eyes, and facial recognition software.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security in October will begin testing the viability of iris scan biometric technology.

Tropical Storm Karl made landfall on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Wednesday, hitting a sparsely populated stretch of Caribbean coast, while two Category 4 hurricanes roared far out in the Atlantic.

The Corn Refiners Association is now petitioning the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to allow it to change the name of high fructose corn syrup to "corn sugar" in yet another attempt to convince the public to accept it.

The first court award in a vaccine-autism claim is a big one. CBS News has learned the family of Hannah Poling will receive more than $1.5 million dollars for her life care; lost earnings; and pain and suffering for the first year alone.

Lastly, according to a recent survey, the average salary for a lead pastor in a megachurch is $147,000.

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday sat down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Sharm e-Sheikh, Egypt to tackle the most immediate dispute between the two sides: a soon-to-expire curb on new construction for Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

The Palestinians' "all or nothing" strategy of insisting on a total freeze on West Bank settlement construction risks paralyzing Middle East peace talks in their infancy, officials close to the heart of negotiations warned Tuesday.

Muslim publications have been busy during Islam's month of Ramadan calling for increased jihad against "infidels," describing it as an "eternal" and "most important" commandment and explaining that a ban on killing the elderly, women and children "doesn't apply to Israeli society".

The French senate has approved a law banning any veils that cover the face -- including the burqa, the full-body covering worn by some Muslim women -- making France the first European country to plan such a measure.

A senior Iranian lawmaker is blaming the U.S. government for all consequences resulting from the desecration of Korans in the United States.

Barack Obama's advisers are pushing for a soft approach to tackling government corruption in Afghanistan just days after the American president promised to keep up pressure on Hamid Karzai to rein in widespread graft.

The price of gold hit a record intra-day high of $1,276.50 an ounce on Tuesday.

CNBC is reporting that the nation's banks repossessed a record number of homes in August.

The number of college students who defaulted on their federal student loans increased significantly in the fiscal year that ended in September 2008, according to new government data released Monday.

From 1999 to 2008, employment at the foreign affiliates of U.S. parent companies skyrocketed 30 percent to 10.1 million. At the same time, U.S. employees of American multinational corporations decreased 8 percent to 21.1 million.

America and Europe face the worst jobs crisis since the 1930s and risk "an explosion of social unrest" unless they tread carefully, the International Monetary Fund has warned.

Approximately 45 million Americans were living in poverty during 2009.

Southern California home sales fell last month to the lowest level for an August in three years and the second-lowest in 18, the result of a worrisome job market and a lost sense of urgency among home shoppers.

The number of economists peddling dire warnings that the world's number one economy is on the brink of collapse is growing.

John Williams, the publisher of the Shadow Stats blog, has just released a note to clients in which he warns that hyperinflation may hit as soon as 6 to 9 months from today.

Is Barack Obama the most anti-business president in U.S. history?

Apparently Bill Gates seems to think that "death panels" could be a good idea after all.

Two cybersecurity bills that would hand President Obama the power to shut down parts of the Internet in the event of a national emergency have now been merged into a single unified piece of legislation that Democrats will try to pass before the end of the year.

The Department of Homeland Security, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service and even local law enforcement agencies are buying and deploying mobile X-ray vans on the streets of America.

DeKalb County is suing a local farmer for growing too many vegetables, but he said he will fight the charges in the ongoing battle neighbors call “Cabbagegate”.

Former CIA agents have confirmed rumors that the agency tortured terror suspects at a detention center in Poland. One agent allegedly held a drill to a prisoner's head while he was naked and hooded.

A regional Russian official sacked for forcing a group of teenagers to kiss his feet has defended his actions, claiming he was merely repeating a lesson he had learned in the Red army.

U.S. Border Patrol agents fired gunshots into Mexico after coming under attack during a half-ton drug bust and giving chase to a truck along the Rio Grande, U.S. authorities said Monday.

The federal government hired a New Orleans man for $18,000 to appraise whether news stories about its actions in the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama administration.

Where does he find the time?  Barack Obama has written a book for children about inspirational Americans called Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters.

If our Founding Fathers were alive today, what would they think of America?

Oil at least two inches thick was found Sunday night and Monday morning about a mile beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

Has the mainstream media been covering up major health problems in the Gulf of Mexico?

The Atlantic gained a second hurricane overnight as Tropical Storm Julia strengthened into a Category 1 storm, the National Hurricane Center reported.

One judge is seeking reforms in the health care system after a doctor left a foot long sponge inside him after surgery.

Swimming in chlorinated pools can cause an increased risk of cancer in bathers, Spanish researchers said on Monday.

One researcher believes that the "Twilight" book series could be affecting the dynamic workings of the teenage brain in ways scientists don't yet understand.

Lastly, the Amish population is growing and embarking on a westward migration that has now reached as far as Colorado, South Dakota and Montana, according to an annual survey by Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, which tracks the Amish.

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Two Iranian grand ayatollahs have issued fatwas calling for the killing of those who insult the Koran, including anyone who burns the Islamic holy book.

Two protesters were killed and several more injured as for a third straight day violent demonstrations swept Afghanistan yesterday in response to the threats made by a US church to burn copies of the Koran.

Hundreds of Muslims in the divided region of Kashmir took to the streets Monday night in violent protest over the reported desecration of Korans in the United States.  Over a dozen people have reportedly died in the clash that ensued between police and protesters, and a Christian private school was set ablaze in the volatile Himalayan region.

Indonesia's president has ordered police to hunt down and arrest assailants who stabbed a Christian worshipper in the stomach and beat a minister in the head with a wooden plank as they headed to prayers.

A small group of conservative Christians tore some pages from a Koran in a protest outside the White House Saturday to denounce what they called the "charade of Islam" on the anniversary of 9/11.

It is being reported that the White House will officially notify Congress in the next two weeks of a $60 billion deal to sell Saudi Arabia dozens of U.S.-made fighter jets and military helicopters.

Hurricane Igor approached catagory 5 as it roared far out in the Atlantic on Monday, with forecasters expecting it to remain over open water through at least the end of the week.

More than half of the passengers survived after an airplane crashed Monday morning in southeastern Venezuela, government officials said.

House Minority Leader John Boehner says that he believes that Obamacare will ruin the nation’s health care system while bankrupting the country.

Health insurers are being criticized by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for “falsely blaming” premium increases on the health law signed in March by Barack Obama.

Global financial regulators have reached a deal to force global banks to double the spare cash they hold in the biggest shake-up since the economic crisis nearly brought down the entire system.

From 2007 through 2009, the number of families in homeless shelters — households with at least one adult and one minor child — leapt to 170,000 from 131,000, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The U.S. government posted a $90.53 billion budget deficit in August.

According to one new survey, 59 percent of Canadians are living paycheck to paycheck.

If the oil market focused on fundamentals, instead of equities and currencies, it would be half the price of what it is now, Peter Beutel, president of energy research firm Cameron Hanover, told CNBC.

U.S. regulators are poised to curb so-called high frequency trading that uses sophisticated algorithms to analyze equity markets and trigger trades at lightning speed.

The rush for global farmland has gone exponential since the food scare of 2007-2008.

Will "farming without a license" soon be regarded as a criminal enterprise?

A recent TSA ad suggests that photographers are possible terrorists and should be reported by dutiful citizens.

Bill Gates is still very busy pushing his eugenics agenda.

Are meat and milk from clones now in the U.S. food supply?

More than 80 percent of male bass in the Potomac River on the U.S. Atlantic coast are producing eggs or showing other female traits, the nonprofit Potomac Conservancy has warned.

In Indonesia, a volcano which began erupting on August 29th after lying dormant for 400 years has driven 27,000 people from their homes.

A plume of molten rock rising from deep beneath Yellowstone National Park is probably what is  fueling the region's volcanic activity, as well as tectonic plate oddities across the Pacific Northwest, new research suggests.

Several light earthquakes struck western Wyoming on Sunday.

China can't dam or divert water quickly enough to keep up with its thirsty population, and the shortage has reached crisis levels in Beijing and other areas.

Lastly, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.

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A federal court in Riverside, California, has ruled that the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy -- which bars gay men and lesbians from serving openly -- is unconstitutional.

In fact, the federal judge who issued the ruling says that she will issue an injunctionto halt the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Hazleton, Pa., may not enforce its crackdown on illegal immigrants.

Leading Iranian opposition members claimed Thursday to have uncovered a secret nuclear enrichment site buried in the mountains northwest of Tehran and run by Iran's defense ministry.

Fire crews flooded the ruins of burning homes with water Friday after a massive explosion apparently triggered by a broken gas line sent flames roaring through a neighborhood near San Francisco, killing at least four people and destroying 38 houses.

A man has been shot dead outside a Nato base in Afghanistan during protests against plans to burn copies of the Koran in the United States.

The website of the church that was planning to burn a Koran on Saturday to commemorate 9/11 was removed from the internet after its hosting service said the site violated its terms of service agreement.

A pro-family organization says that it is hypocritical for high-ranking officials in the Pentagon to condemn a Florida church's plans to burn Korans when U.S. military personnel burned Bibles last year in Afghanistan.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Thursday that it is actually Israel that is behind the Koran burning controversy.

Following the uproar over the threatened burning of the Koran by a small Florida church, a leading international Islamic body said Thursday that the United Nations should outlaw “all forms of offense against religions.”

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the Catholic archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., told CNSNews.com the following: "If a person sees the Koran as proof of God’s presence in the world, then I cannot say, ‘Don’t embrace the Koran.’”

New York real estate mogul Donald Trump has offered to buy the proposed site of a mosque near Ground Zero, seeking to end what has become a nationwide controversy.

Barack Obama’s top health official on is warning the insurance industry that the administration won’t tolerate blaming premium hikes on the new health overhaul law.

The U.S. has slipped down the ranks of competitive economies, falling behind Sweden and Singapore due to huge deficits and pessimism about government, a global economic group said Thursday.

According to a report from the Inspector General for Tax Administration, released to the public Thursday, about 950,000 of the nearly 1.8 million Americans who claimed the tax credit on their 2009 tax returns will have to return the money.

This month, General Electric is permanently shuttering its last major factory that produces incandescent light bulbs. The closure will cost 200 employees their jobs.

The largest industrial union in the country issued an extensive, 5,800-page decree against China on Thursday, claiming that China illegally subsidizes the entire renewable energy industry, and identified five major areas of protectionist and predatory practices utilized by China at the expense of production and jobs in the United States.

A trifecta of bad news has sent coffee futures soaring 44% since June, and companies such as Dunkin' Donuts, Green Mountain and Maxwell House are passing on those costs.

In the first 19 months of the Obama administration, the federal debt held by the public increased by $2.5260 trillion, which is more than the cumulative total of the national debt held by the public that was amassed by all U.S. presidents from George Washington through Ronald Reagan.

The U.S. trade deficit actually declined a little bit during the month of July.

Japan has expressed concern about China's recent sharp increase in purchases of Japanese government bonds in the latest of a series of sour notes in a traditionally tense bilateral relationship that both sides had worked hard to steady.

Nearly 3 million Americans have declared bankruptcy in the last two years.

Texas Congressman Ron Paul has hinted that he is strongly considering another Presidential run in 2012.

A social engineering bill designed to restrict residence in the suburbs and rural areas and force Americans into city centers has passed the United States Senate Banking Committee and is on the fast track to passage in the Senate.

The city of Cleveland plans to sort through curbside trash to ensure that people are actually recycling their trash.

In fact, quite a few U.S. cities have now decided to go snooping through trash cans.

The fight over Proposition 23, a November ballot initiative to suspend California's global warming law, turned ugly this week, with personal attacks and emotionally charged rhetoric on both sides.

An Iowa school district's lunch program asks children as young as 5 years old to memorize a four-digit PIN code so it can monitor what they eat in the school cafeteria -- prompting some parents to claim it's an unhealthy case of "Big Brother."

North Carolina sheriffs want access to state computer records that identify people with prescriptions for certain drugs, an idea that patient advocates oppose.

The federal government needs an agency specifically charged with identifying radicalization or working to prevent terrorist recruitment of U.S. citizens and residents, according to a report issued by Tom Kean, Lee Hamilton, and the Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center’s National Security Preparedness Group.

The Obama administration is changing the federal immigration enforcement strategy in ways that reduce the threat of deportation for millions of illegal immigrants, even as states such as Arizona, Colorado, Virginia, Ohio and Texas are pushing to accelerate deportations.

Gunmen killed the mayor of a town in northern Mexico as he sat at his desk, the third politician slain in the past month as drug-related violence escalates.

Barack Obama on Thursday denied that rising drug violence made Mexico look increasingly like Colombia at the height of its drug war.

Barack Obama has sent best wishes to Muslims worldwide on the occasion of Eid-al-Fitr, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan.

If you Muslim, you don't have to give all the new Obamacare healthcare reform regulations and penalties another thought. Because the concept of being compelled to participate in such a healthcare program offends Islamic sensibilities, Muslims are specifically exempt.

The United Nations has been urged to go back to basics in protecting civilians in Eastern Congo after admitting that 500 rapes in the space of a single month amounted to a serious failure in its mission.

After a year of humiliating setbacks, United Nations Secretary General Ban ki-Moon and about 60 of his top lieutenants — the top brass of the entire U.N. system — spent their Labor Day weekend at a remote Austrian Alpine retreat, discussing ways to put their sprawling organization in charge of the world’s agenda.

The threat posed by al-Qaida and the Taliban is exaggerated and the western-led counter-insurgency campaign in Afghanistan risks becoming a "long, drawn-out disaster", one of the world's leading security thinktanks warned recently.

The brother of the Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a half-million pound profit in eight months on a luxury villa in Dubai bought with a loan from the bank at the center of a financial and political crisis in Kabul.

A Saudi subcontractor has refused to cooperate with a U.S. investigation of bribery in Iraq.

Wildfires have returned to Russia, sweeping through several villages in Siberia and burning down more than 400 homes.

Three Russians with a shovel and wire cutters were recently arrested outside a Georgia power plant.

In May, a team of Chinese scientists announced a successful demonstration of "quantum teleportation", beaming a message more or less instantaneously 10 miles through the air -- a message that's virtually impossible to spy on.

China's top-ranking UN diplomat embarked on a drunken rant against the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, telling his boss he'd "never liked" him, and adding for good measure that he didn't like Americans either.

Farmers in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Queensland are bracing for what could be one of the worst locust plagues in 70 years.

A group of the nation's leading infectious disease experts are demanding forced vaccinations for all healthcare workers.

An expert on the radical environmental movement says James Lee, the gunman and hostage-taker who was shot and killed by police earlier this month at the Discovery Channel building outside Washington, DC, is just the latest contributor in a long line of eco-terrorists.

Two former Planned Parenthood employees-turned-whistleblowers have made stunning allegations regarding the abortion provider's accounting practices.

An insidious email virus remained in the top five Google searches Friday, a day after it snarled traffic and took down servers at ABC, NASA, Comcast, and Google -- and possibly even swamped the Department of Homeland Security's computers.

About 57,000 seemingly legitimate websites booby-trapped by hackers spring up on the Internet each week.

The European Union says the number of children born out of wedlock in the 27-nation bloc has doubled over the past two decades and now accounts for over one-third of the region's births.

A five-year-old boy was sexually assaulted by four of his kindergarten classmates at his elementary school in New York, his mother has claimed.

Lastly, if you attempt to share the gospel with Muslims in Kansas you’ll be hauled off in handcuffs to the local police department. That’s what happened to Pastor Mark Holick of Spirit One Christian Center when he visited the Wichita Islamic Society to speak about the gospel and to distribute religious tracts.