The most important news for Sunday, March 7th, 2010....

Polls have closed in Iraq's parliamentary elections, but the elections were marred by horrific violence that left at least 38 people dead.

The Iranian Defense Ministry started mass production of Nasr 1 (Victory 1) cruise missiles on Sunday.

In the past two months alone, CIA Director Leon Panetta, National Security Adviser Jim Jones, NSC strategist Dennis Ross, Deputy Secretaries of State Jim Steinberg and Jack Lew, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John Kerry and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen have all made trips to Israel to discuss the situation brewing in the Middle East.

Republican senators are demanding that the Obama administration cancel the appointment of a new U.S. ambassador to Syria.

The Congressional Budget Office is projecting that Barack Obama's proposed budget plan would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.

The U.S. Postal Service, facing a $238 billion budget deficit by 2020, is being urged to consider cutting delivery to as few as three days a week.

Federal regulators on Friday shuttered banks in Florida, Illinois, Maryland and Utah, boosting to 26 the number of bank failures in the U.S. so far this year.

It is being reported that Russia may scrap the ruble and introduce a common currency with Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Will the Obama administration soon help Wall Street get a hold of Social Security?

Barack Obama has released a statement in which he once again affirmed his commitment to reduce the U.S. nuclear arsenal and his goal of seeking "a world without nuclear weapons".

Meanwhile, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is urging Russia's armed forces to speed up the upgrading of their aging military arsenal.

A reporter says that he counted more than 200 dead bodies after renewed religious violence erupted between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria.

Christian debt-elimination programs, which use the Bible as a framework to encourage financial responsibility, are surging in popularity all across the United States.

An NYPD officer has broken his silence and has admitted that innocent people are set up and falsely arrested and ticketed in order to meet quotas.

Islam is tolerant?  A husband and wife in Pakistan were recently sentenced to 25 years in prison for touching the Quran without washing their hands.

The former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency claims that the United States is seeking to create and train terrorist groups in the region.

According to research presented to the American Heart Association's annual conference, drinking sugar-sweetened soft drinks has been linked to an increase in new cases of diabetes and heart disease.

The CDC has issued a new report showing that one out of every 110 children in America today has some form of autism.

A pet charity in the U.K. is claiming that vaccines being given to dogs are making them ill, while vets are cashing in on all of the vaccines.

Is there a "worldwide war" on baby girls?

Has a lost group of people with Jewish ancestry been found in Zimbabwe?

MSNBC recently ran an article with this surprising headline: "5 ways your TV is slowly killing you".

A 70-year-old Chinese grandmother in the central province of Hubei was recently beaten and buried alive by property developers eager to get their hands on her land.

Lastly, Washington D.C. will become the first city in the United States to make female condoms available for free.

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