The most important news for Thursday, February 18th, 2010....
A small plane has crashed into a seven-story office building in Austin, Texas. Federal officials are now saying that the pilot of the plane had set his house on fire beforehand and then crashed the plane intentionally into the building.
The name of the pilot is reportedly Joseph Andrew Stack and it is being claimed that he left behind a rambling anti-government suicide note.
More than 75,000 computer systems at nearly 2,500 companies in the United States and around the world were recently hacked in what appears to be one of the largest and most sophisticated attacks by cyber criminals ever discovered.
The chief of Russia's General Staff, Nikolai Makarov, is warning the United States not to attack Iran.
Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Tuesday that Hezbollah would hit Israel's Ben Gurion airport if the Jewish state struck Beirut's international airport in any future war.
The FDIC is opening up a massive new satellite office in the Chicago area that will be dedicated to managing receiverships and liquidating assets from the tidal wave of failed Midwest banks that the FDIC is expecting.
A South Carolina lawmaker has introduced legislation which would replace all paper money in that state with gold and silver coins.
It is being reported that a hedge fund run by billionaire investor George Soros more than doubled its bet on the price of gold during the fourth quarter.
In an attempt to keep the price of gold down, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that it plans to sell 191.3 metric tons of gold on the open market.
The U.S. government is still spending $32 billion in stimulus funds every single month.
Now even ABC News is admitting that the U.S. government is drowning in debt.
A new study is warning that many U.S. states may soon be forced to reduce benefits, raise taxes or cut government services in order to address a $1 trillion funding shortfall in public sector retirement benefits.
It turns out that when many Americans call up for information about their local food stamp programs, they are being answered by operators in India.
It is being estimated that there are 6 unemployed Americans for every 1 job opening in America right now.
U.S. bank lending in the U.S. has contracted so far this year at the fastest rate in recorded history.
Do you still think the housing industry is going to recover quickly? If so, perhaps you should check out this article: 5 Factors That Will Drag Housing Down in the Next Ten Years.
The liberal elite must be very concerned - now the New York Times has published a very long article that tries desperately to link the Tea Party movement to white supremacists.
A Tea Party organizer has officially won a seat in the New York state assembly.
The Dalai Lama's visit to the White House is seriously straining U.S. relations with China.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia must improve its space defenses as well as modernize its nuclear arsenal by 2020.
The lower house of the French parliament has approved a draft bill that would give the French government unprecedented control over the Internet.
Is Google making 500 million dollars a year from typos?
Best selling author Kevin Trudeau has been ordered by a federal judge to serve 30 days in prison even though he has not committed any crimes.
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocked the region where China, Russia and North Korea meet on Thursday.
A huge X-shaped object with trailing streamers is cruising across the sky just 90 million miles from earth and astronomers have no idea what it is.
Researchers at Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, have successfully used genetically modified pig lungs to pump human blood. Since pig organs are essentially the same size and shape as human organs, the researchers are claiming that this "advance" could drastically increase the number of lungs available for transplant.
A study released Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life indicates that the current generation of young Americans is much less religious than their parents.
Lastly, Italian state television has suspended a cooking show host after he shocked the nation by admitting that cat stew is a Tuscan delicacy that he has enjoyed many times.
