The most important news for Monday, January 4th, 2010....
Have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. envoy George Mitchell unofficially reached an agreement on the terms of negotiations for a Palestinian state in the entire West Bank?
Israel will begin distributing gas masks to its entire population in the next two months, though no reason has officially been given by the Israeli government.
A new anthrax scare? Today, letters with white powder were sent to the offices of Senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions and Congressman Jo Bonner in the state of Alabama.
A gunman opened fire in the lobby of a federal building in downtown Las Vegas on Monday, killing one court officer and wounding a second one before he was shot to death.
Barack Obama is ordering U.S. government agencies to prepare for the possibility of a biological attack.
Iran is warning that the West has until the end of the month to accept Iran's counterproposal to a U.N.-drafted plan on a nuclear exchange, or they will start producing nuclear fuel on their own.
The CIA has reportedly caught an Iranian businessman trying to purchase weapons for "war against the U.S."
The H1N1 swine flu mutations that have been killing so many people in Ukraine are now spreading in Russia.
Under the proposed health care reform bill in Congress, the I.R.S. would be the one to check whether Americans have health insurance or not.
U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has given the okay for the controversial body scanners that see "everything" to be installed at all U.K. airports.
A record 20 million-plus Americans collected unemployment benefits at some point in 2009.
Do the numbers indicate that another big housing crash is coming in 2010?
The city of Detroit is in ruins. Is your city next?
Will the next "perfect economic storm" begin in February?
Will China someday have the power to "switch off the lights" in the West?
Genetically modified rice is moving through the approval process and could be growing on Chinese farms as early as next year.
Global warming? We could use some about now - record-setting freezing temperatures have been sweeping North America, Europe and Asia.
The Pope is warning that we all need to "go green" in order to save the planet.
The Vatican has apparently decided to open up their "secret" archives.
Candidates for certification to teach in public schools in the state of Texas are being told that they will be held accountable for any "heterosexist" leanings and that they must become agents working to change society.
NASA is warning that the protective bubble around the sun that helps to shield the Earth from harmful interstellar radiation is shrinking and is getting significantly weaker.
Lastly, Hawaii's state legislators are lining up a string of new holidays, parks and memorials to honor Barack Obama.
