The most important news for Friday, December 4th, 2009.....
The Obama administration is hoping to reach a treaty agreement with Russia soon that would reduce U.S. strategic nuclear stockpiles to less than 10 percent of what they used to be.
According to one report, German intelligence says that Iranian scientists have successfully simulated the detonation of a nuclear warhead under laboratory conditions.
A top Iranian official has announced that Iran will not answer to the U.N. nuclear watchdog beyond the barest minimum required under the international nonproliferation treaty.
At least 45 people were killed and 83 were injured on Friday when Islamic suicide attackers stormed a mosque near army headquarters in Pakistan's Rawalpindi city.
An Iranian doctor who exposed the torture of jailed protesters in Iran died after his salad was apparently poisoned.
Despite rumors to the contrary, Japan says that it has no plans for a mess sell-off of U.S. Treasurys.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke tried to defend himself in front of the Senate Banking Committee at a confirmation hearing on Thursday.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to push for "a global financial transaction fee".
California officials have announced that nearly 800 people in California were hospitalized with the H1N1 swine flu last week alone, the largest one week number of hospitalizations since swine flu cases began escalating this fall.
One of the top health officials in the U.K. says that his greatest fear is that the H1N1 swine flu virus could mutate into a more dangerous strain this winter.
It turns out that most of the people who died from the 1918 Spanish flu died from bacterial pneumonia that was caused when bacteria that normally inhabit the nose and throat invaded the lungs along a pathway created when the 1918 Spanish flu virus destroyed the cells that line the bronchial tubes and lungs.
Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 swine flu has now shown up in Tennessee, Georgia and Spain.
General Motors and Chrysler have announced that they will reconsider decisions to close thousands of dealerships as part of a compromise meant to stave off federal legislation that would require them to keep those showrooms open.
Al Gore says that the Copenhagen Treaty carbon emission targets are not nearly tough enough.
There is new research that once more shows that Al Gore faked his findings in An Inconvenient Truth.
It turns out that Goldman Sachs made huge bets against the U.S. housing market just before the current real estate crash began.
There were 36 million prescriptions issued for antidepressant drugs in the United Kingdom in 2008 - nearly one for every adult in the entire population.
It's about time - the Justice Department is investigating allegations of fraud and corruption against Johnson & Johnson.
Some patients in the U.K. are having their eyes fitted with an artificial lens that allows them to see in high definition.
Vladimir Putin is now openly praising Stalin for creating a superpower and for winning the Second World War.
Are the youth of America increasingly becoming seduced by vampirism?
There are dozens of movies about "aliens" in development. Are we all being conditioned to accept something in the future?
Is 2012 more than just a doomsday movie?
It turns out that Barack Obama has known the "White House party crashers" for at least five years.
A California judge has attacked parents, suggesting that they are bigots for seeking to opt-out their elementary-age children from a mandatory controversial pro-homosexual curriculum at school.
A gay love scene in a newly released video game is creating a huge uproar.
Did you know that when entering Freemasonry, initiates must take an oath known as "The Oath of Nimrod".
Lastly, one of the first written copies of The Declaration of Independence will be auctioned off by Christie's on Friday.
