The most important news for Wednesday, July 28th, 2010....
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says that he has "precise information" that the United States plans to attack at least two countries in the region within the next three months.
Ahmadinejad also says the United States and Israel plan to launch a "psychological war" on Iran.
Russia has angrily slammed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's criticism of Moscow in the nuclear crisis as unacceptable and irresponsible, as tensions spiral with its traditional ally.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday sent Barack Obama a major war-funding increase of $33 billion to pay for his troop surge in Afghanistan.
According to a newly released audit, the Defense Department is unable to properly account for $8.7 billion out of $9.1 billion in Iraqi oil revenue entrusted to it between 2004 and 2007.
The U.S. government has once again reaffirmed that it has no intention of engaging in military action against Venezuela.
The discovery of large natural gas reserves under the waters of the eastern Mediterranean could potentially mean a huge economic windfall for Israel and Lebanon.
BP has posted a massive quarterly loss of $17.2 billion due to costs stemming from the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
The amount of securitized credit that has vanished since the credit bubble burst two years ago is $1.4 trillion – that means that 40% of this market is gone.
The Conference Board, a private research group, announced on Tuesday that its Consumer Confidence Index slipped to 50.4 in July, down from the revised 54.3 in June.
An increasing number of Americans are living in their homes with the electricity and water turned off.
A majority of small businesses will face significantly higher taxes under Barack Obama's tax plan.
A congressional subcommittee has been asked to investigate the growing backlog in and foreign procurement of U.S. bullion and collectors' precious metals coin blanks manufactured by the U.S. Mint.
A member of a German quintet of professors that is currently challenging the legality of Europe's recently-devised support measures has said they threaten to create enormous tensions between EU citizens if allowed to stand.
Could economic conflict between the U.S. and China reappear at any time?
According to a recent Washington Post investigation, 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.
It is being reported that the White House was "very pleased" with how the New York Times dealt with its semi-exclusive access to the documents.
Pentagon officials looking into the leak of thousands of classified documents to an online whistle-blower already have at least one potential suspect in mind - an Army intelligence analyst under suspicion in an earlier leak to the same website.
Los Angeles County, in response to rural non-compliance of environmental ordinances, has formed what they call the "Nuisance Abatement Team".
Thousands of illegal immigrants are fleeing Arizona ahead of the coming crackdown there.
In a move that complicates Republican efforts to take back the Colorado governor's office, former GOP congressman Tom Tancredo said Monday that he plans to change parties and run on the American Constitution Party ticket.
A Kentucky Democrat running for U.S. Senate says former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is tarnishing his family legacy by appearing at a fundraiser on behalf of Republican Rand Paul.
Barack Obama's new health care law has created 183 new agencies, commissions, panels and other bodies.
Two people were killed and one was seriously injured when a rare tornado struck a family ranch in northeastern Montana on Monday.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to live a healthy lifestyle: 7 Secret Ways We Are Being Poisoned.
Health officials say that a lethal tropical fungus is behind at least 15 deaths in the U.S. Pacific Northwest over the past six years.
A new poll shows that 62% of Catholics want to keep California’s liberal abortion laws - or make getting abortions even easier.
A 7 year old boy that was being treated with three different psychotropic medications recently committed suicide by hanging himself.
Some feedlots are losing cattle by the hundreds, as hot weather and high humidity bears down across Kansas.
A blistering summer heat wave in Japan has sent 15,000 people to the hospital with heat stroke and caused at least 66 deaths in the past two months.
Wreathed in smoke from underground fires, Moscow recorded its hottest day ever on Monday as large parts of Russia endured severe drought.
In Russia, seven self-confessed members of a Satanist sect were sentenced Monday by the Yaroslavl Regional Court to prison terms for killing four teenagers and desecrating their bodies in a 2008 initiation ritual.
The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is considering a recommendation to extend spousal and dependent benefits to same-gender domestic partners.
A dairy cow has defied the odds to give birth to triplets of different breeds.
Lastly, archaeological research in East Timor has unearthed the bones of the biggest rat that ever lived, with a body weight around six kilograms.
