The most important news for Monday, December 28th, 2009....
Prominent Democrats are saying that the final version of the health care reform version will look very similar to the version that the Senate just passed.
Hundreds of flights were cancelled or delayed on Sunday as new security procedures implemented for flights to the United States caused absolute chaos.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted on Monday that the aviation security system completely failed when an Islamic radical on a terrorist watchlist was allowed to board a fight from Amsterdam to Detroit with an explosive device on his person.
According to one report, authorities fear that there are 25 British-born Muslims who are plotting to bomb Western airliners.
These new developments have many airline passengers saying that they would have no problem with controversial new "whole body scan" machines that give screeners an undressed view of travelers.
Barack Obama has issued an amendment to Executive Order 12425, designating the international law enforcement agency Interpol as a "public international organization", thus extending diplomatic immunity to the international law enforcement group.
Telecom firms are accusing the U.K. government of acting like the East German Stasi over plans to force them to store the details of every phone call for at least a year.
Some analysts are claiming that new protests in Iran are a sign that the government of Iran is at a breaking point.
A maverick Iraqi politician says that Iran could "go nuclear" within weeks.
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon said on Saturday that the year 2010 will be a decisive year with regards to Iran and its nuclear plan.
Barack Obama now has the lowest approval rating for any president at this point in his first term.
The Chinese economy has overtaken the Japanese economy and is now the second biggest economy in the world.
1400 truckers who worked for Arrow Trucking suddenly found themselves unemployed and found their paychecks bouncing when their employer suddenly went out of business.
One financial expert believes that there is now no way that the United States can avoid hyperinflaton.
Goldman Sachs is being investigated for betting against the mortgage-backed securities that they created.
Is the United Nations poised to implement a massive gun grab?
Global warming? 877 snowfall records were set or tied in the United States last week.
A dangerous new strain of bacteria is emerging in U.S. hospitals.
Scientists have discovered that Vitamin C boosts the reprogramming of adult cells to give them the properties of embryonic stem cells.
The first U.S. case of a contagious, aggressive and highly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis has been discovered.
New research has revealed that Earth's north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles a year due to magnetic changes in the planet's core.
Scientists are now saying that a restricted calorie diet can help humans live longer.
We are now being warned that a third wave of the swine flu is on the way.
A Rockland County couple is suing the New York Archdiocese for barring their daughter from attending a Catholic preschool because she has not been "fully vaccinated".
It turns out that just before the recent swine flu vaccination campaign, the European Commission issued a directive giving pharmaceutical companies total immunity from liability for any damages caused by the untested swine flu jab and Tamiflu, even when the drugs were used inappropriately.
Is it possible that DNA is the next Internet?
Was Democrat Senator Max Baucus drunk and/or intoxicated on the floor of the U.S. Senate recently?
Lastly, Breckenridge, Colorado is being dubbed the "Amsterdam of the Rockies" now that it has legalized marijuana.
