As day broke Thursday, people throughout the South began to survey the wreckage left behind after dozens of tornadoes ripped through six states killing hundreds of people.
The vast majority of fatalities from the tornadoes occurred in Alabama, where well over 100 people perished, said Yasamie August, Alabama Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman.
UK newspapers are reporting that British troops could be deployed to the Libyan border to guard refugees fleeing the Gaddafi regime.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick Thursday says that he hopes the institution will have a role in rebuilding Libya as it emerges from current unrest.
Syrian security forces have killed at least 500 civilians in a crackdown on a "peaceful democratic uprising", Syrian human rights organization Sawasiah said on Thursday.
Radiation readings at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear station have risen to the highest level since an earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems.
In the first quarter of 2011, U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) only increased by 1.8 percent, significantly down from the 3.1 percent of growth in the last quarter of 2010.
The Labor Department says that new claims for unemployment benefits jumped 25,000 to a seasonally adjusted 429,000 for the week ending April 23. That's the highest total since late January.
After sifting through about one million applications, McDonald’s hired more than 60,000 workers nationwide in conjunction with its National Hiring Day earlier this month.
It turns out that it is now easier to get into Harvard than it is to get a job at McDonald's.
Wal-Mart says that their customers are running out of money.
Rampant inflation is starting to show up in a lot of different areas of the economy.
As gas prices approach record highs, gas-related thievery is on the rise.
Declining total gasoline stocks in the critical central U.S. Atlantic Coast region may be putting some in the U.S. Atlantic Coast gasoline market on edge as the country moves toward the high-demand summer gasoline season.
Gold settled at a fresh record high above $1,531 on Thursday, while silver soared to an all-time high, as a falling dollar and signs that the Federal Reserve would maintain a loose monetary policy boosted precious metals' appeal as a hedge against inflation and economic uncertainty.
Is the decline of the U.S. dollar about to accelerate?
House prices are falling again—and the decline is accelerating.
The battle over debit card fees is turning ugly.
If the U.S. economy get rid of all debt there would literally be no money.
If you break down the U.S. national debt, it comes to more than $45,000 per citizen, or almost $127,000 per taxpaying American.
State budget cuts will force Philadelphia's schools to lay off 3,820 employees - including 12% of the district's teachers - to close a gaping budget shortfall next year.
55% of Americans believe that the U.S. economy is either in a depression or a recession.
More Americans than ever are stockpiling food and emergency supplies.
In many areas, sales of guns and rifles are setting new records.
Standard and Poor's, one of the top credit rating agencies, is warning that the cost of rebuilding Japan could hit 50 trillion yen, and it has downgraded the outlook for Japan's debt rating from "stable" to "negative".
Are you against raising the debt ceiling? If so, according to former Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill you are actually part of al-Qaeda.
In an effort to enhance online security and privacy, the Obama administration has proposed Americans obtain a single ID for all Internet sales and banking activity. But a new Rasmussen Reports poll finds most Americans want nothing to do with such an ID if the government is the one to issue it and hold the information.
Navigation device maker TomTom has apologized after getting busted for selling user data to local police in Europe.
It turns out that there are all kinds of problems with the "birth certificate" that Barack Obama has released.
Now Donald Trump wants Barack Obama to release his college records.
Fox News host Glenn Beck says that some of the so-called “birthers” are actually supporters of Barack Obama.
California’s AB 354 was passed in September of last year, making proof of whooping cough vaccinations mandatory for both public and private school students starting in the 2011-12 school year. However, health representatives told Mercury News that the law makes most students ineligible for attendance.
Superman renounces his U.S. citizenship in a new issue of Action Comics.
Belief in a god, or a supreme being, and some sort of afterlife is strong in many countries around the globe, according to a new Ipsos/Reuters poll.
A Methodist church in Ohio is publicly declaring that being gay is a gift from God.
Last week a group of pro-abortion activists vandalized and desecrated a Christian pro-life display students at Clarion University put up at their Pennsylvania campus.
Charlie Veitch, who many of you will know as the leader of the Love Police activist group, has been arrested by British police in a pre-crime raid on charges of “conspiracy to cause a public nuisance” at tomorrow’s Royal Wedding.
Lastly, Rev. David Wilkerson, founding pastor of Times Square Church in New York City and author of the well-known book The Cross and the Switchblade, was killed Wednesday in a head-on collision in Texas. He was 79.
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France and Italy announced Wednesday that they will send military officers to advise rebels fighting for the ouster of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime.
Britain has announced that it is expanding its presence in Libya with military advisers while the European Union said it is prepared to send troops for humanitarian assistance if requested by the United Nations.
NATO military commanders conceded Tuesday they are unable to stop Muammar Gadhafi's shelling of the rebel-held city of Misrata, where hospitals are overwhelmed with casualties.
American and European diplomats are warning that if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to present a new peace initiative soon, the Quartet may be compelled to recognize a Palestinian State within the 1967 borders, with east Jerusalem as its capital.
According to Debka, Saudi Arabia has gone out on a limb against the Obama administration to place itself at the forefront of an independent Gulf campaign for cutting down the Islamic Republic's drive for a nuclear bomb and its expansionist meddling in Arab countries.
The Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency has reported to a Cabinet Office safety panel that nuclear fuel pellets in the Nos. 1 and 3 reactors at the quake-hit Fukushima power station are believed to have partially melted.
Japanese authorities are reportedly considering implementing a mandatory evacuation zone around the Fukushima Nuclear Plant.
Cesium-137 from Fukushima has been detected in drinking water and milk here in the United States. Cesium and Tellurium were found in Boise, Las Vegas, Nome and Dutch Harbor, Honolulu, Kauai and Oahu, Anaheim, Riverside, San Francisco, and San Bernardino, Jacksonville and Orlando, Salt Lake City, Guam, and Saipan while Uranium-234, with a half-life of 245,500 years has been found in Hawaii, California, and Washington.
The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant has laid out a blueprint for stopping radiation leaks and stabilizing damaged reactors within the next six to nine months as a first step toward allowing some of the tens of thousands of evacuees to return to the area.
Oil prices jumped more than $3 Wednesday, to above $111 a barrel, as the dollar weakened and a government report said U.S. crude supplies fell last week.
Gas prices reached five dollars per gallon at a gas station in Washington, DC on April 19, 2011.
One economist believes that we could see gas prices as high as $6 a gallon or more by summertime under the right conditions.
Gold prices topped $1,500 an ounce Tuesday as investors looked for more stable assets because of worries about U.S. government debt, European financial problems and inflation.
Will silver reach $50 an ounce soon?
Even though Standard & Poor’s has threatened to downgrade the nation’s credit rating, and well-known bond managers have sold their Treasury bonds, the U.S. debt market continues to thrive — and even rally.
American Airlines lost $436 million in the first quarter as it battled rising jet fuel prices, likely foreshadowing huge losses at other major U.S. airlines.
Late Tuesday, Southwest Airlines raised all of its round-trip fares by $10. Delta initiated this latest round of price increases on Monday, and as of midday Wednesday American Airlines, JetBlue and United Airlines had matched it.
Investors drove up home sales last month, paying cash to grab cheap homes at risk of foreclosure. But purchases by first-time homebuyers, crucial to a housing recovery, fell.
U.S. commercial property prices slipped for the second straight month in January, as distressed real estate sales weighed on values, according to Moody’s Investors Service.
Government now provides 35% of all wages in the United States.
The average American family is having a really tough time right now. Only 45.4% of Americans had a job during 2010. The last time the employment level was that low was back in 1983.
U.S. multinational corporations cut their work forces in the U.S. by 2.9 million during the 2000s while increasing employment overseas by 2.4 million, new data from the U.S. Commerce Department reveals.
Over the past decade, the U.S. manufacturing industry has shed 5.5 million jobs while around 50,000 factories have shuttered.
Thousands of people showed up to McDonald’s restaurants nationwide to apply for jobs on the hamburger giant’s first National Hiring Day, creating lines in some places.
Is China about to revalue the Yuan?
China is heavily investing in troubled Spanish banks.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is not impressed with the U.S. economy at all.
Even Ben Stein is warning that an economic collapse may be coming.
There are a lot of reasons why the price of gold keeps hitting new record highs.
Roughly one in four dollars the federal government borrows goes to pay the interest on the debt.
Did you know that our federal government spent $413 billion on interest payments just last year? Which means in 2010 alone we spent more in interest payments than we spent on the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Energy, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Justice and Homeland Security, the Department of Agriculture, the Treasury Department, the Department of Labor and the small business administration — combined.
The United States lacks a credible plan to cut its deficit over the medium term, the International Monetary Fund's chief economist Olivier Blanchard told French daily Le Monde in an interview published on Wednesday.
Standard & Poor’s has decided to slap U.S. government debt with a negative ratings outlook.
It is being reported that Barack Obama begged Standard & Poor's not to lower the outlook on U.S. government debt.
A credit rating downgrade for the United States would spell even more financial trouble for the U.S. government, hampering its ability to borrow money as investors demand higher yields to make up for the increased risk. That would cause its national debt to balloon further and increase the need to hike taxes or make even more painful cuts in spending.
Donald Trump says that he will show his tax returns if Barack Obama shows his birth certificate.
Google searches for Donald Trump have gone way up recently.
Only a quarter of Republicans in critical caucus-state Iowa believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) is reportedly following the lead of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) by preparing a plan that would allow him to possibly take over municipalities that don’t pass a financial stress test.
The San Francisco Entertainment Commission wants to require all venues with an occupancy of over 100 people to record the faces of all patrons and scan their ID’s for storage in a database which they must hand over to law enforcement on request.
Several conservative bloggers are accusing Glenn Beck of stealing their content without giving credit. Worse, there is evidence that Beck takes steps to hide the true source before using content on his show.
73% of Americans say they waste time at work -- at least one hour per day.
77% of workers that have access to Facebook at work check it daily.
27% of U.S. workers actually watch porn while at work.
With the largest rate of teens having sex in the country and the fifth-highest HIV/AIDS rate in that age group, Philadelphia has launched a campaign to reverse those trends with a website that offers mail-order condoms to children as young as 11.
Over the past 13 years, a little-known Philadelphia phone-sex company called PrimeTel Communications has quietly gained control over nearly a quarter of all the 1-800 numbers in the U.S. and Canada, often by grabbing them the moment they are relinquished by previous users.
The New York State Health Department has created a list of what they deem to be “risky recreational activities” and is forcing many summer programs to ban these games unless they shell out extra funds to be recognized as an official summer camp.
It has been discovered that since the introduction of iOS 4, Apple devices have been tracking and storing the user's location along with a time stamp -- essentially logging a user's movements since upgrading to iOS 4.
According to a nationwide study just released by the Flagstaff, Arizona-based Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), meat and poultry from U.S. grocery stores have an unexpectedly high rate of dangerous disease-causing bacteria, including antibiotic resistant superbugs.
According to the ACLU, Michigan police officers are using devices to download all your phone data when they pull you over, including photos and text messages.
Roughly two dozen teens, reportedly chanting the name of an Atlanta gang, invaded a MARTA train early Sunday morning, beating and robbing two Delta flight attendants.
A damning new study conducted by German scientists has found that so-called energy saving light bulbs contain poisonous carcinogens that could cause cancer and should be “kept as far away as possible from the human environment,” but Americans will be forced to replace their traditional light bulbs with toxic CFLs ahead of a government ban set to take effect at the start of next year.
Angry opposition supporters in Nigeria's Muslim north set fire to homes bearing ruling party banners Monday and heavy gunfire rang out in several towns as election officials released results showing the Christian incumbent had gained an insurmountable lead.
Protesters led by hardline Islamists in southern Egypt held their ground Monday, saying they won't end their campaign of civil disobedience until the government removes a newly appointed Coptic Christian governor.
Women who do not wear headscarves are being threatened with violence and even death by Islamic extremists intent on imposing sharia law on parts of Britain.
Did news footage recently capture images of a giant UFO hovering over Fukushima?
Incredible footage has emerged of what a group of Russians claim is the remains of a mangled alien.
An increasingly larger number of gays and lesbians at Christian colleges are starting to "come out of the closet".
Lastly, does a new book entitled "Where's The Birth Certificate?" finally reveal all the details surrounding the birth of Barack Obama?
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Many in the Tea Party movement are absolutely furious about the $38.5 billion budget deal that he agreed to with the Democrats and are calling for his resignation.
The budget deal is not going to cut an additional $38.5 billion. That headline number includes $12 billion in cuts that were included in three prior short-term funding resolutions. That leaves lawmakers looking for $26.5 billion to cut from agencies and programs.
A magnitude 6.6 aftershock has just rattled Japan This comes nearly a month after the magnitude 9 earthquake that spawned a deadly tsunami.
The situation at the Fukushima nuclear complex in Japan just seems to get worse by the day.
Japan's government called for evacuations Monday from several towns beyond the danger zone already declared around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, warning that residents could receive high doses of radiation over the coming months.
Uranium-234 has been detected in Hawaii, California and Seattle.
New EPA milk samples in Hawaii show radiation in milk at 800% above limits for C-134, 633% above limits for C-137 and 600% above EPA maximum for I-131 for a total of 2033%, or 20.33 times, above the federal drinking water limits.
The crisis at Fukushima is likely to continue for years.
Forces stormed the president's residence in Ivory Coast on Monday and arrested self-declared president Laurent Gbagbo, whose refusal to accept the results of a presidential election last year plunged the West African nation into civil war.
Libyan rebels rejected an African Union peace plan on Monday because it did not address their main demand that Muammar Gaddafi quit and because it proposed reforming a ruling system they want removed.
NATO said on Monday it took note of reports of an African Union proposal for a cease-fire in Libya, but an official said the alliance would target Muammar Gaddafi’s forces as long as they threatened civilians.
Around 2,000 protesters defied an army demand to leave Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Monday, vowing to stay until Egypt’s ruling military council heeds their demand for civilian rule and a deeper purge of corrupt officials.
Syrian security forces sealed off the coastal city of Banias overnight following sectarian killings by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, witnesses said on Monday.
An Egyptian military court on Monday jailed a blogger for three years for criticizing the armed forces, the country’s rulers since president Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in February, his lawyer told AFP.
An explosion tore through a key subway station in the Belarusian capital of Minsk during evening rush hour Monday, killing seven people and wounding 50 others, officials said.
Unlike Americans, the people of Iceland were allowed to vote on bailing out the banksters. They voted overwhelmingly against the proposal on Saturday despite the intimidation tactics of the globalist loan sharking operation, the International Monetary Fund.
The Congressional Research Service estimates that the U.S. government will need to borrow $738 billion between April 1 and Sept. 30.
Are we going to see $5 gas by Memorial Day?
Gold is at a new record, wheat is surging, corn is at highest since 2008, crude at a new 30 month high, silver is at $41.10 - a new fresh post Hunt high, beans surging, etc, etc, etc.
Just 59 percent of Americans now believe that the "free market economy is the best system on which to base the future of the world."
Is the Federal Reserve attempting to sink the U.S. dollar to goose corporate profits, reinflate asset prices and create "modest inflation"?
Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen is promising that inflation will not "impede the economic recovery".
It turns out that PIMCO is now shorting U.S. government bonds.
PIMCO chief Bill Gross has been warning of a U.S. debt default, while wondering who would stick around to buy Treasuries following the end of QE2.
Many on Wall Street are absolutely convinced that PIMCO has made exactly the right move.
There are several counties in America, each with more than 10,000 homes, which have vacancy rates above 55%.
The outgoing chairman of the nation’s third-biggest health insurer exercised stock options worth more than $50.3 million and pulled in $18.4 million in pay, stock and other compensation, according to the company’s 2011 proxy filing.
In America today, the top 1% control 40 percent of the nation's wealth.
The United States has increased its military spending by 81 percent since 2001.
It didn't take Donald Trump long to respond to the comment by White House adviser David Plouffe that he has "zero chance" to be president and that his prospective campaign is a "sideshow."
Republicans Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney lead Barack Obama in Florida, according to a new poll out today on the 2012 presidential race.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 19% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president, which was a brand new low.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says taht U.S. troops could remain in Iraq for years to come.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said that Iran has recently accelerated its nuclear program as it appeared to sense a reduction in international pressure
In Israel, the success of the Iron Dome missile defense system so far - nine interceptions including the system's first one on Thursday night - has surprised even the air defense troops who have been training to operate the device for several months.
In California, what started out as a program to hold unclaimed property, such as the contents of safety deposit boxes owned by people who have moved away without a forwarding address, has gone wildly out of control. The program is now using the flimsiest of excuses to drill safe deposit boxes and sell the contents, often for below-market value, the proceeds going to the state’s general revenue.
Are "mega earthquakes" on the rise?
The evidence in support of Andrea Rossi's "cold fusion" or "LENR" (low energy nuclear reaction) based Energy Catalyzer continues to grow.
Blueberries, which have already been lauded as a superfood for their ability to help prevent heart disease and Type-2 diabetes, contain high levels of polyphenols – groups of chemicals with potential health benefits.
Girls in the United States are now reaching puberty earlier than ever.
Environmental pollution, plastic chemicals, pharmaceutical drugs, pesticides, unhealthy diets, radiation-emitting technologies — these and many other factors are contributing to an epidemic decline in sperm counts among modern men.
In a 70-28 vote, the Tennessee House of Representatives passed HB 368, a bill that encourages science teachers to explore controversial topics without fear of reprisal.
A Mississippi state judge has issued an order to public school attendance officers in his judicial district to provide the names of all homeschoolers there.
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A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Japan on Thursday, triggering a tsunami warning for one prefecture and advisories in others.
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake was felt across Mexico about an hour before the 7.1 earthquake hit Japan.
The new earthquake in Japan was accompanied by a very strange blue light show.
TEPCO has begun discharging 11,500 tons of highly radioactive water into the surrounding ocean. A marine consulting and research firm has developed a model to predict the spread of the contaminated material.
Concerns about radiation fallout from Japan's nuclear disaster prompted some schools in South Korea to shut on Thursday as rain fell over most of the country.
After the radioactive cloud emanating from Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant reached Europe last week, French authorities have detected radioactive iodine-131 in rainwater and milk.
The EPA says that eating fish caught in Japan, with radiation levels 2400% above Federal limits, does not pose any health risks.
Japan's economy is "under strong downward pressure" due to the devastation caused by the earthquake and tsunami, the Bank of Japan says.
Barack Obama is meeting again today with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders who blame each other for the budget impasse that threatens to shut down the federal government at midnight on Friday.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid indicated Thursday that there is likely to be a government shutdown at the end of the week -- an outcome the Nevada Democrat blames wholly on his Republican colleagues.
Even if the government does shut down, not that much is actually going to change.
House Budget Chairman Congressman Paul Ryan says that Barack Obama’s budget strategy is to “do nothing, punt, duck, kick the can down the road” while the debt remains on track to eventually hit 800 percent of GDP. Ryan also says that the CBO is saying it “can’t conceive of any way” that the economy can continue past 2037 given its current trajectory.
Oil prices jumped above $110 a barrel, a fresh 2-1/2 year high, after news broke that Japan was hit with another major earthquake.
Oil prices will soar above $130 a barrel by late 2011, a new Reuters poll has found, and one in five traders said they expected oil to hit $150 this year, levels some economists say could trigger recession.
Inflation fears in Europe have prompted the European Central Bank to raise interest rates for the first time since 2008. The bank hiked their key rate by 25 basis points to 1.25%.
Portugal's prime minister said Wednesday his country has asked for financing assistance from the European Union due to its high debts and difficulty raising money on international markets.
Is the U.S. government debt crisis even worse than the Greek debt crisis?
Two and a half years ago 66% of foreign central bank assets were in U.S. dollar investments. Before that it was 70% and today it is just 61.3%.
According to the CoreLogic HPI, national home prices, including distressed sales, declined by 6.7 percent in February 2011 compared to February 2010 after declining by 5.5 percent in January 2011 compared to January 2010.
Over the past several months regulators have finally noticed what consumer attorneys have been saying for years: the big banks have routinely committed fraud in their foreclosure filings and their records of how much people owe are too often wrong.
Internationalist billionaire George Soros is holding an international conference April 8 to April 11 at Bretton Woods, N.H., the noted birthplace of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, where he plans to “rearrange the entire financial order”.
China is growing increasingly assertive in its foreign policy, especially in the way it handles the U.S., because officials there believe that China is on the rise while America is in the midst of a steady decline.
A highly contagious "AIDS-like disease" is spreading in China.
25,000 people die each year from superbugs in Europe and there are a number of bacteria which are now resistant to all drugs.
NBC’s Tom Brokaw says that the Saudi Arabian monarchy is “so unhappy with the Obama administration for the way it pushed out President Mubarak of Egypt” that it has sent senior officials to the Peoples’ Republic of China and Russia to seek expanded business opportunities with those countries.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney appears to be the early front-runner in the largely unformed race for the Republican nomination for president, but real estate magnate Donald Trump may be a surprise contender, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
Donald Trump continued to question Barack Obama's American citizenship during an appearance on NBC's Today show, saying "there is a big possibility" the president may have violated the Constitution.
The former Hawaii elections official who maintains there's no long-form birth certificate for Barack Obama in the Aloha State is now saying the president and his aides have been "caught fibbing" about Obama's background, and the "embarrassing" situation is making it difficult to fess up to the truth.
The rationing that so many warned was coming under Obamacare has already begun.
The Pentagon says NATO will have to adjust the way it operates in Libya to keep up with changing tactics by forces of Moammar Gadhafi.
Tens of thousands of protesters defied a government crackdown and took to the streets of Yemen's second largest city on Wednesday in the latest demonstrations against the long-serving president, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
According to Debka, the Syrian uprising took a new turn Tuesday, April 5, when armed protesters ambushed and shot dead two policemen in the Damascus suburb of Kfar Batna. Syrian troops then opened fire and killed 15 inhabitants.
The UN air strikes in the Ivory Coast suggest Libya was no fluke: the West's appetite for military action has recovered robustly from the diplomatic trauma of the Iraq war.
A U.S. senator says President Barak Obama’s administration “got it wrong” in its handling of the ongoing crisis in Ivory Coast following violent clashes between rival forces, which has left hundreds dead and tens of thousands fleeing the West African conflict.
The drought may be over in California, but large portions of the Southwest, southern Plains, Florida and the Southeast are all still enduring severe to extreme drought conditions.
Depletion of the ozone layer over the Arctic has reached record levels, and Nordic countries will have to watch for higher than normal ultraviolet radiation in coming weeks, the UN weather agency said Tuesday.
Glenn Beck and the Fox News Channel are giving up on his nightly show. Later this year - a specific date was not disclosed - the controversial host will leave the show, and instead, work on unspecified projects down the road.
Lastly, Google is planning to significantly revamp YouTube to "compete with broadcast and cable television."
