The most important news for Monday, February 22nd, 2010.....
Barack Obama has unveiled his new $950 billion health plan that seeks to reconcile existing House and Senate bills. Democrats are hoping to use Senate rules to avoid a Republican filibuster and ram this legislation down the throats of the American people.
A senior Obama administration official says that the White House will propose new legislation that would allow the U.S. government to block excessive rate hikes by health insurance companies.
According to a new survey conducted by The Barna Group, only 35 percent of born-again Christians are satisfied with the job Barack Obama is doing.
More than 1 million Americans could lose their unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidy in March if Congress doesn't intervene.
It has now come out that many nations across Europe used complex financial transactions to hide the true size of their debts and deficits.
One major U.K. newspaper has published an article with this stunning headline: "Our World Balances On A Sea Of Debt".
California "Republican" Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is publicly defending the effectiveness of Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan.
The U.S. government has massively increased spending at a time when U.S. government revenues are dramatically falling.
It turns out that U.S. unemployment is hitting poor and working class families much harder than it is hitting wealthy Americans.
Israel's air force has introduced a fleet of huge pilotless planes that can remain in the air for a full day and could fly as far as the Persian Gulf. In fact, one of these "super drones" is reportedly as wide as a Boeing 737.
Iran announced on Monday that it plans to start constructing two new uranium enrichment facilities next month in the heart of the Iranian mountains.
U.S. intelligence sources are warning that civil war could break out again in Sudan at any time.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently said that terrorists who are U.S. citizens or who live in the United States legally and plot against the U.S. are just as big of a concern as international terrorists.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano also recently met covertly with a group of extremist Arab, Muslim and Sikh organizations to discuss national security matters.
According to a report released on Friday by the Office of Professional Responsibility, the chief author of the Bush administration's "torture memo" told Justice Department investigators that the president's war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional power to order civilians to be massacred.
Donald Trump is now saying that global warming is a scam on American business.
The president of Haiti is saying that the official death toll for the Haiti earthquake could end up being around 300,000.
An ancient temple complex in Turkey that supposedly predates even the pyramids is causing many archaeologists to say that we now need to "rewrite" history.
The FBI has opened an investigation into allegations that a Pennsylvania school official used webcams to remotely monitor students at home.
Lastly, the head of NASA says that Barack Obama has asked him to "find ways to reach out to dominantly Muslim countries" as the White House pushes the space agency to become a tool of international diplomacy.
