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Has Israel already conceded East Jerusalem to the Palestinians before negotiations have even begun?
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak made the following statement just this week: "West Jerusalem and 12 Jewish neighborhoods that are home to 200,000 residents will be ours. The Arab neighborhoods in which close to a quarter million Palestinians live will be theirs."
Barack Obama says that he is optimistic his team would succeed in jumpstarting direct talks aimed at ending Israel’s "occupation" and leading to the formation of a new Palestinian state.
Israeli troops sealed off swaths of the southern West Bank today in the aftermath of the killing of four Israeli settlers in a drive-by ambush.
Debka is reporting that on August 30, Hezbollah put its forces on a state of war alert and issued a partial call-up of reservists.
A Florida group has caught on video an Orlando mosque in the act of raising money for a supporter of Hamas.
Hurricane Earl is a powerful Category 3 storm packing 125-mph winds, and coastal residents in its path need to take action now, FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate told reporters on Thursday.
A well connected to an oil and gas production platform caught on fire in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, engulfing the vessel in flames about 100 miles off the central coast of Louisiana and forcing 13 people overboard, Governor Bobby Jindal said.
A very large amount of U.S. government debt is due to rollover this fall.
Are government finances so bad in Greece at this point that default is only a matter of time?
As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in beleaguered Kabul Bank called on Thursday for intervention by the United States to head off a financial meltdown.
The U.S. housing market is already in a double-dip recession, Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi told CNBC on Monday.
China's auto sales jumped 55.7 percent in August from a year earlier, boosted by Beijing's new subsidies scheme for energy-saving vehicles, state media said Thursday.
Are U.S. investors actually hoping for gridlock in Washington D.C.?
Now even some "conservative Republicans" want to impose a carbon tax on the nation.
The number of "preppers" in the United States is growing very rapidly.
Justice Department civil rights lawyers filed suit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona on Thursday after talks collapsed on a deal to provide federal investigators with requested documents.
It has now been discovered that in its 1984 World Development Report, the World Bank threatened nations who are slow in implementing the Bank’s "population policies" with "drastic steps, less compatible with individual choice and freedom".
A lawsuit has been launched against the sheriff's office in Marin County, Calif., over an episode in which deputies barged uninvited into a 64-year-old man's home and shot him three times with a Taser, screaming "stop resisting" while the incapacitated victim writhed in pain on the floor.
Is there no surveillance power too intrusive or unaccountable for our political class provided the word “terrorism” is invoked to “justify” those powers.
The mentally and morally “unfit” should be sterilized, Professor David Marsland, a sociologist and health expert, said this weekend on BBC Radio.
Al Gore’s Church of Climatism has claimed a new glorious martyr. His name is James Lee – the Discovery channel attempted eco-suicide-bomber – and if he’d had his way he wouldn’t have been the only one who ended up in the great recycling bin in the sky.
Southern Hemisphere sea ice is now approaching record high levels.
Russia has already seen it’s first snow accumulation of the season.
The Christian Medical Association blasted the Obama administration Tuesday for trying to lift an injunction blocking the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
The Obama administration has shifted more than $1 billion out of its nuclear, biological, and chemical defense programs to underwrite a new White House priority on vaccine development.
Two New York lawmakers want farmers to vaccinate their chickens against salmonella.
The aluminum content of a range of the most popular brands of infant formulas remains high, and particularly so for a product designed for preterm infants and a soya-based product designed for infants with cow's milk intolerances and allergies, researchers have found.
A recent study published online in the journal Biology of Reproductionfurther reveals the disruptive nature of bisphenol-A (BPA) in gene expression. According to the data, pregnant mice exposed to BPA experience significant genetic changes in their fetal ovaries, indicating that the next generation of their offspring will likely be born with serious genetic defects.
A product survey conducted by The Independentfound that the toxic chemical bisphenol-A (BPA) is used in 18 on the 20 top-selling canned food products in the United Kingdom.
Researchers from the University of Liverpool have discovered new benefits to eating both broccoli and plantains -- two high-fiber foods -- that may help people with Crohn's disease and other digestive disorders.
According to a study by the California Integrated Waste Management board, 63 percent of the average supermarket's waste stream is food. This comes out to 3,000 pounds per store per year.
Time Magazine has published an article with this stunning headline: "Will Human Cloning Cause the Next Financial Crisis?"
A large percentage of Americans believe in ghosts and UFOs.
Indonesia's Mount Sinabung continued erupting yesterday, two days after it sprang back into life after over 400 years of inactivity.
Millions of killer giant squid are not only devouring vast amounts of fish. There are disturbing reports that they have now even started attacking humans.
Righthaven LLC has struck a deal with Arkansas-based WEHCO Media to expand its copyright litigation campaign, in which bloggers and aggregators across the country are being sued on allegations of infringement.
The U.K. has seen a 24 percent increase in the number of homes infested by bedbugs.
Pest control company Terminex released a list Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010 of the 15 most bedbug-infested cities, and New York, Philadelphia and Detroit have scratched their way to the top.
Lastly, world famous physicist Stephen Hawking argues that God did not create the universe in a new book that aims to banish a divine creator from physics.
