The most important news for Wednesday, July 21st, 2010....
WorldNetDaily is reporting that Palestinian Authority officials are saying that the Obama administration has been negotiating the borders of a future Palestinian state that would see Israel eventually withdraw from most of the West Bank and some areas of eastern Jerusalem with the exception of what are known as the three main settlement blocks – Gush Etzion, Maale Adumim and Ariel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bureau on Tuesday firmly denied reports that the Israeli leader had presented Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak with a map delineating the borders of a future Palestinian state during their meeting in Cairo earlier this week.
A report in a Jordanian newspaper suggesting the Palestinians want to see an international force deployed along the borders of any future Palestinian state sent ripples around the diplomatic world over the weekend.
Debka is reporting that the U.S. and Israel are concerned that Iran may be capable of a nuclear test this year.
The Israeli Defense Ministry has reported that tests of the Iron Dome air defense system have been completed and that interceptor missiles will soon be deployed.
Observant and secular Israelis alike crowded places of worship Monday night to mark Tisha Be’av, the day of fasting and mournful contemplation commemorating the destruction of both Temples and Jerusalem, and the ensuing exile of Jews from the Holy Land.
Obama administration officials pushed back on Monday against a lengthy Washington Post report critical of the bloated and sometimes inefficient U.S. intelligence network.
Taiwan tested its readiness to repel a Chinese invasion with a computerized war game on Monday, less than three weeks after signing a historic trade agreement with the communist-run mainland.
The damaged BP well in the Gulf of Mexico can remain closed until at least Wednesday when a decision will likely be made about pouring mud into the top of the well to begin plugging it, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.
The federal government's oil spill chief said on Tuesday that seepage detected two miles from BP's oil cap is coming from another well.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday that he "completely understands "the anger that "exists ... across America" regarding the oil well operated by BP that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico three months ago.
A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research says that it could take an entire decade for the national unemployment rate to come down to pre-recession levels.
A number of big U.S. retailers are trying to get consumers to spend money by offering "Christmas in July" sales.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that his vision for a "big society" bank will be funded through a £60m raid on the money lying dormant in English bank and building society accounts.
Goldman Sachs has angrily defended itself against a public campaign that claims the bank is exacerbating global food crises through its commodity trading operations.
New types of money are popping up across Mid-Michigan and supporters say, it's not counterfeit, but rather a competing currency.
The poorest 20 percent of the world population receive just 1.4 percent of total world income.
10,000 people make 30% of the income in the United States of America today.
Unless Congress acts now to stop a tax hike, the maximum tax rate on dividend income is set to skyrocket at the end of the year — leaping by 164% for some investors.
A recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey has found that just 23% of American voters nationwide believe the federal government today has the consent of the governed.
The state legislature of Massachusetts is poised to give final approval this week to 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.
A religion adviser to Barack Obama has close ties to the imam who wants to build a 13-story Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero.
The White House has been dragged into the controversy over a U.S. Agriculture Department employee fired for comments about a white farmer.
A management consultant on Monday stood by remarks over the weekend in which he compared black Tea Party activists to Jewish guards in Nazi concentration camps.
A Baltimore family is furious that their 12-year-old daughter was pulled out of an airport security line in Tampa and subjected to what they say was an embarrassing and unhealthy full body scan.
Back in December, one Canadian woman had already missed one flight and lost her luggage when she says she found herself in a room at the Vancouver airport, naked and squatting, while two crude border agents strip-searched her.
Across the United States right now, a growing number of Americans are being prosecuted simply for vidoetaping the police.
A Chicago cop who has served in Afghanistan and Iraq is warning that gang members who are serving in the U.S. military overseas are coming home with military training.
Of the approximately 200 villagers in the Indian town of Gaudiyan, around 135 of them have bone deformities. A private doctor who conducts social work in the area termed it as a case of skeletal fluorosis - the result of excess fluoride content in drinking water.
Some drugs firms in the U.K. are being accused of profiteering after it was discovered that they have been raising prices on some products by one thousand percent.
A recent study by Finland's National Institute for Health and Welfare, found that over a 30-year time period, individuals with higher concentrations of vitamin D had significantly lower chances of developing Parkinson's disease.
There is a new craze sweeping the Internet called "i-Dosing" in which teenagers used so-called "digital drugs" to change their brains in the same way as real-life narcotics.
Blogging platform Blogetery.com was cut off by its hosting company last week after U.S. authorities said that al-Qaida terrorist material was found on one of its servers.
Facebook is expected to announce this week that it has reached 500 million users, making it the biggest information network on the Internet.
A team of engineers at the University of Pittsburgh have published computational models that provide a blueprint for developing artificial cells that can communicate, move independently, and transport "cargo" such as chemicals needed for reactions.
Researchers at Bristol Robotics Lab in the UK have created the first "synthetic gut" for use in self-sustaining robots.
A second China UFO sighting has residents on edge, just seven days after an unidentified flying object shut down a Chinese airport.
Christians in Britain are being unfairly targeted by laws intended to prevent religious hate crimes, a new report from Civitas warns.
A school district in Mississippi has agreed to pay $35,000 to a lesbian teen who was originally told by school officials that she and her girlfriend would be ejected if they attended the school-sponsored prom.
Lastly, some of the world's wealthiest and most prominent leaders have begun arriving for the annual meetings at the Bohemian Grove.
