The most important news for Thursday, February 25th, 2010....
Are Democrats plotting a post-summit health care coup?
Uh oh - Syria has turned down a planned visit to a research reactor in Damascus by U.N. nuclear inspectors.
A new logo for the Missile Defense Agency is strikingly similar to the one that Barack Obama used during his 2008 campaign.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that the Russian government expects a new nuclear arms reduction treaty between Russia and the United States to be linked to Washington's plans to deploy missile shield elements in Europe.
North Korea is threatening to "attack" if the U.S. and South Korea go ahead with joint military drills later this month.
There are reports that Syria and Iran are in discussions about how to implement the secret military pact their two governments signed in December 2009.
Israel and the United States are holding a one-day, high-level strategic dialogue on Thursday which was expected to focus on sanctions against Iran.
Do the violent riots in Greece indicate that this will be a "summer of discontent" across Europe?
Is John McCain's Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 an attempt to implement Codex Alimentarius in the United States?
Scott Brown, the new Republican senator for Massachusetts, is being called a traitor for supporting Barack Obama's recent spending bill.
Only 10% of American voters say that Congress is doing a good or excellent job.
General Motors has announced that they will begin shutting down Hummer now that a proposed deal to sell the brand to a Chinese company has collapsed.
The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment insurance "unexpectedly" increased last week.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Congress on Wednesday that the United States could soon face a debt crisis like the one in Greece.
The U.S. Senate has passed a one year extension of the Patriot Act.
More than 300 U.S. soldiers have died in Afghanistan since May 15, 2009, which was the day when the first major wave of new troops ordered by Barack Obama arrived in the country.
Pakistani Taliban militants have beheaded three men charged with spying for the United States in Pakistan's northwest tribal region.
Vaccine manufacturer Merck Frosst Pharmaceutical has announced that they have approval from Health Canada for the use of the human papilloma virus vaccine Gardasil in boys and young men.
Intel has revealed that it was targeted by a "sophisticated" hacker attack this year at about the same time that Google was being attacked in the same manner.
Reports of flu cases at U.S. universities has increased 52% over last week.
According to newly released research, there is no scientific evidence that flu shots are safe or effective for elderly Americans.
Agricultural scientists say that the hope to boost world food supplies in the future by exploiting advances in biotech, nanotech and synthetic biology.
A group of U.S. farmers is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture for improperly allowing Monsanto to sell an herbicide-resistant alfalfa seed while failing to analyze the public health, environmental, and economic consequences of that action.
Restaurants across the country have been running out of tomatoes sporadically over the past week, and that is likely to continue in the aftermath of the freeze that devastated Florida's tomato crop last month.
A strong 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck off Nicaragua's western coast on Wednesday night.
Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler has released a long-awaited opinion saying that same-sex marriages performed in other states could be recognized by Maryland's legal system.
Pastor Mark Driscoll says that Avatar is "the most demonic, satanic film I've ever seen."
The Japanese government apparently plans to officially admit that it signed two secret defense pacts with the U.S. in 1960 and 1972.
Parasites in Cambodia are reportedly developing resistance to one of the most important anti-malaria drugs.
Lastly, the northeast U.S. is bracing for a massive "snowicane" that could dump another two feet of snow on many areas of the region.
