The most important news for Tuesday, December 8th, 2009.....
The Obama administration has formally declared that carbon dioxide endangers "the public health and welfare of the America people", thus empowering the Environment Protection Agency to regulate it across the country under the Clean Air Act.
The U.N. Copenhagen climate change summit is "in disarray" after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the U.N.'s role in all future climate change negotiations.
Representatives at the Copenhagen climate change summit are being warned that there will be "hundreds of millions of refugees" if they do not get this treaty passed.
It turns out that Christmas trees have been banned from the Copenhagen climate change summit.
The Committee on Climate Change in the U.K. says that green taxes will have to rise over the next few decades in order to curb the growing demand for fuel-guzzling air travel.
Saudi Arabia is calling for an independent investigation of Climategate.
It turns out that the upcoming cap and trade carbon credit trading scheme will make substantial use of derivatives.
On Tuesday, European Union foreign ministers passed a resolution which recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of both Israel and of a future Palestinian state.
A series of coordinated bomb attacks killed at least 118 and wounded at least 261 in Baghdad on Tuesday - including three car bombs that blew up near Iraqi government sites.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims that the United States is attempting to thwart the return of "mankind's savior".
Saudi Arabia is reportedly in "panic mode" as Shi'ite rebels move north from Yemen.
President Hugo Chavez said on Monday that Venezuela has received thousands of Russian-made missiles and rocket launchers as part of the military preparations for a possible armed conflict with neighboring Colombia.
Results from 34 H1N1 swine flu victims in New York were released by the National Institutes of Health in a December 7th bulletin. The swine flu symptoms and effects on the lungs of the victims were similar to the effects of the 1918 Spanish flu.
A 33 year old woman in West Virginia has died from bacterial pneumonia that was brought on by the H1N1 swine flu.
According to Danish and Swedish newspapers, World Health Organization scientists are suspected of accepting secret bribes from vaccine manufacturers to influence the U.N. organization's H1N1 pandemic declaration.
When the H1N1 swine flu vaccine was most scarce, it turns out that health officials gave thousands of doses to corporate clinics at Walt Disney World, Toyota, defense contractors, oil companies and cruise lines.
Sarah Palin and Barack Obama now have approval ratings that are almost equal.
A man in Minnesota has been arrested for throwing a tomato at Sarah Palin.
Google's CEO says that if you are concerned about Google retaining your personal data, then you must be doing something you shouldn't be doing.
It turns out that Yahoo sells all of its users private email correspondence to U.S. agencies for a relatively small price.
Has Google turned from a friend into a foe?
The Knesset passed a bill on Monday to establish a biometric database that could require all Israelis to have a chip installed in their ID cards and to carry passports that contain their fingerprints and facial scans.
The most recent development at the U.S. Mint is a sign of the times: the one-tenth ounce American Eagle inventory at the mint has been depleted, almost instantaneously after the coin was made available for purchase.
According to EPA data, the amount of radium detected in drinking water in some areas of the United States is 2,000 percent higher than the legal limit.
What are we doing to the environment? It turns out there our discarded computers are poisoning Africa's kids.
One of the "must have" Christmas toys this year contains a chemical which has been linked to cancer.
Israeli Justice Minister Yaacov Neeman is under fire for apparently expressing hope that the state's current legal system will soon be dictated by the Torah.
It turns out that Barack Obama's "safe schools czar" has promoted some of the most deviant sexual acts imaginable to 14 year old children.
The presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is suggesting that the Bible is not the last word on homosexuality.
More than 20,000 women in the U.K. under the age of 25 had an abortion for at least a second time last year.
Will a growing number of technical problems bring down the Internet?
The Parliament of the World's Religions has brought together representatives from 80 nations and more than 220 faith traditions for seven days of debate and dialogue.
Lastly, a lion, a tiger and a bear have formed one of the most unique friendships in the world.
