The most important news for Friday, January 29th, 2009....
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to raise the U.S. government debt cap by 1.9 trillion dollars.
So how much is one trillion dollars? To get an idea of the vast amount of money we are talking about, just check out this illustration.
North Korea is like that hyper kid in school who was always misbehaving to get attention - North Korea fired artillery toward a disputed sea border with South Korea for the third straight day on Friday.
Mounting tensions over the status of Jerusalem, Israel's refusal to halt settlement building in the West Bank and a general sense of frustration at the continued failure of the peace process has raised fears of a new Palestinian uprising.
Jordanian Prime Minister Samir Al-Rifai recently told Israel Radio that peace between Jerusalem and Amman is getting "cooler and cooler" due to the impasse in efforts to renew talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
On Friday, Russia unveiled a highly advanced new fighter aircraft touted as a rival of the U.S. F-22 stealth jet.
The face of former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin will adorn bottles of a new soft drink to go on sale next month in Russia.
Criminals are taking advantage of the blackout in Haiti's capital to harass and rape women and young girls.
Haitian officials fear that human trafficking and the sale of human organs will become rampant in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake.
According to one report, orphans in Haiti are being offered for sale to foreigners for as little as 50 dollars.
Nearly 170,000 dead bodies have been recovered in Haiti so far.
Are all of these earthquakes a sign that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled?
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday that Iran's attitude regarding its nuclear program leaves the world community no choice but to increase pressure on Tehran.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that she does not see herself remaining America's top diplomat for a full eight years if President Obama is re-elected and asks her to stay on.
"In-flight services" – including food and liquor, for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trips on Air Force jets over the last two years have cost U.S. taxpayers over 101,000 dollars.
What in the world? Scott Brown is already telling Senate Republican leaders that there are times when he is going to side with the Democrats.
Barack Obama's State of the Union address included a wide array of promises for new spending programs and tax cuts despite a record $1.35 trillion federal deficit projected for the current fiscal year.
During his State of the Union address, Barack Obama was laughed at (and even he had to smile) when he delivered a line about the "overwhelming evidence" for climate change.
On Thursday the United States formally notified the United Nations that it has embraced the Copenhagen Accord that was negotiated last month.
LOL! Now Osama Bin Laden is blaming the United States and the world's other major industrial economies for climate change?
The U.S. Senate has voted to give Ben Bernanke a second four-term as the Federal Reserve boss.
You know things are getting bad when even Reuters is reporting on the secret banking cabal that wields enormous power behind the scenes.
Uh oh - The California State Teachers' Retirement System is reporting a 43 billion dollar shortfall.
A new report says that the number of suicides in the U.K. has risen sharply since the recession began.
The Council of Europe is getting ready to decide whether the World Health Organization colluded with drug companies to exaggerate the threat from swine flu.
A high technology firm in Israel is building a mind-reading scanner that can tell if a given traveler is a potential danger - without the subject's knowledge.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world's poorest countries.
Feminism's violent legacy - violent crimes by women in the U.K. is absolutely soaring.
Sex slavery is so rampant in south Florida that apparently it can even go in in the nicest and trendiest of neighborhoods.
According to an official at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, an "alarmingly high" number of high school students are reporting sexual advances from their adult bosses and other supervisors at some of America's best known fast food operations.
What goes on in North Korea's gulags is almost too horrible to read.
Has NASA found proof of a "war in the heavens"?
Lastly, Sir Richard Branson has unveiled his newest toy - an "underwater plane" designed for a voyage to the bottom of the ocean.
