The most important news for Thursday, July 28th, 2010....
A federal judge blocked enforcement of key provisions of Arizona's new immigration law on Wednesday.
A city in eastern Nebraska has suspended a voter-approved ban on hiring and renting property to illegal immigrants, less than two days before it was set to take effect.
According to a new poll, 54% of U.S. voters say the Justice Department should take legal action against cities that provide sanctuary for illegal immigrants.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that new EU sanctions against Iran show scorn for the United Nations and the so-called "sextet" working to resolve disputes over Iran's nuclear program.
A secret 36-page memo based on Obama administration statements indicates that Barack Obama warned Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to start direct talks with Israel or risk losing American support for the recognition of the PA as a country.
Hamid Gul, a former Pakistan general accused of helping the Taliban, says that the United States orchestrated the mass leak of war files to scapegoat him for its imminent withdrawal from Afghanistan.
India is using the WikiLeaks scandal to repeat a long-standing demand: that Pakistan stop allowing terrorists and terror operations to use it as a base.
North Korea sold missiles to the Taliban in Afghanistan in November 2005 even as the North was taking part in six-party nuclear disarmament talks, a U.S. intelligence report claims.
According to a new report, Russia continued to violate provisions of the 1991 START nuclear-arms treaty up until the agreement expired in December.
An explosion, possibly caused by an attack, damaged a Japanese oil tanker on Wednesday near the mouth of the Persian Gulf, Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has reported.
One hundred days after an oil well operated by BP ruptured in the Gulf of Mexico, and 13 days after crews finished capping the well to contain the gushing crude, the man who is overseeing the federal response is optimistic that steps planned for the coming days will permanently seal the well.
Millions of small dead fish are washing ashore along beaches in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Michigan's governor on Wednesday sharply criticized attempts to contain a large oil spill making its way down the Kalamazoo River after the company responsible for the spill said it had redoubled its efforts to clean up the mess.
The U.S. Coast Guard dispatched emergency teams Tuesday after a boat crashed into an oil well off the coast of New Orleans, reportedly sending crude spewing some 20 feet into the air.
Why is there such an epidemic of oil spills all over the world all of a sudden?
Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act.
Another little-noticed section of the new Wall Street reform law grants the federal government broad new powers to compel financial firms to hire more women and minorities.
About 18.9 million homes in the U.S. stood empty during the second quarter of 2010 as surging foreclosures helped push ownership to the lowest level in a decade.
Today, 19 percent of Americans receive some form of Social Security benefits. In 1970, only 12 percent of all Americans received some form of Social Security.
A record 4.39 percent of the work force - or 46.2 percent of the unemployed - have been out of work for 27 weeks or more.
Princeton University economist Alan S. Blinder estimates that 22% to 29% of all current U.S. jobs will be offshorable within two decades.
Authorities in one California town decided on a drastic approach to their budget deficit – they sacked every single municipal worker.
India has raised interest rates and issued a stark warning on inflation dangers, joining China, Brazil, and other "tiger economies" in concerted moves to tighten monetary policy.
It turns out that "doomsday shelters" are making a big comeback.
RFID technology is becoming integrated into virtually all aspects of American life.
A small team of Australian scientists has secured a $57 million contract to supply "Terminator-style" robots to the U.S. Marine Corps.
Seven people around the globe have been entrusted with "the keys" of the Internet.
The People's Liberation Army has unveiled its first department dedicated to tackling cyber war threats and protecting information security, Chinese media have reported.
Leaders of the Democrat Party have announced a plan to demonize the Tea Party via a national campaign to associate the GOP and the Tea Party as one and the same.
Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank caused a scene when he wouldn't give up on demanding a $1 senior discount on his ferry fare to Fire Island's popular gay haunt, The Pines, last Friday.
Republican Ron Ramsey has come under fire for likening Islam to a cult and casting doubt about whether it is even a religion.
The Massachusetts Legislature has approved a new law intended to bypass the Electoral College system and ensure that the winner of the presidential election is determined by the national popular vote.
It looks like H1N1 is trying to make a comeback in India.
The sun is moving toward the next solar maximum, expected in 2013, and experts say that we should be preparing for the worst.
Scientists are mulling over why part of the Earth's atmosphere recently suffered its biggest collapse since records began, and is only now starting to rebound.
Supply concerns are pushing wheat prices around the world much higher.
Farmers in Australia are bracing for the worst locust plague on record.
Amazon has completely sold out of its least expensive Kindle, providing further evidence of the e-reader's surging popularity.
A mysterious cardsharp who fancies himself to be a modern day "Robin Hood" uses his skills as a professional gambler to win money from Las Vegas casinos and then gives his winnings to hard-up families.
Lebanon’s ruling party on Monday issued a formal call to save the Christian communities of the Middle East.
A number of hospitals in the U.K. are banning Bibles from the bedside lockers of patients.
Lastly, a judge in Spain has been suspended for ten years and ordered to return his salary of about $127,000 to the government because he delayed a decision to allow a lesbian to adopt her partner’s child.
