The most important news for Friday, May 28th, 2010....
According to new government estimates, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has easily eclipsed the Exxon Valdez disaster as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
BP's attempt to cap its undersea gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, a spill now estimated at twice the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster, was suspended for more than 16 hours before it was restarted late Thursday afternoon.
BP's oil spill is creating a complete and total underwater nightmare.
Is there another much larger leak "5 or 6 miles away" from the current oil leak that everyone has been watching in the Gulf of Mexico?
A dire report prepared for Russian President Medvedev by Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources is warning that the BP oil and gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico is about to become the worst environmental catastrophe in all of human history threatening the entire eastern half of the North American continent with "total destruction".
The Obama administration has totally suspended planned exploratory oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska until at least 2011.
South Korea fired artillery and dropped bombs in military exercises off the west coast of the divided Korean peninsula on Thursday.
According to North Korean state-run media, North Korea reacted to a South Korean anti-submarine exercise on Thursday by saying it would meet "confrontation with confrontation" and war with "all-out war".
North Korea has also announced that it will scrap an agreement aimed at preventing accidental naval clashes with South Korea.
According to an internal Department of Homeland Security report, the number of attempted terror attacks against the U.S. over the past nine months has surpassed the number of attempts during any previous one year period.
The U.S. House and a Senate committee approved amendments to a military bill on Thursday that would repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy barring openly gay and lesbian soldiers from military service.
New information obtained by a member of Congress indicates that the Obama administration has spent $10 million illegally promoting a pro-abortion constitution in Kenya.
Israel is facing unprecedented pressure to abandon its official policy of "ambiguity" on its possession of nuclear weapons.
The M3 money supply in the United States is contracting at an accelerating rate that now matches the average decline seen from 1929 to 1933, despite near zero interest rates and the biggest fiscal blitz in history.
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Bank of America and Citigroup incorrectly accounted for billions of dollars in debt over the past three years.
Lehman Brothers and a group of unsecured creditors have sued JPMorgan Chase for more than 5 billion dollars, accusing the bank of siphoning billions of dollars of critically-needed assets, and hastening its bankruptcy.
Bob Chapman of the international forecaster says that the global elite are deliberately trying to cause an economic meltdown.
It is being reported that prices at which the Greek Central Bank is selling one ounce gold equivalents are as high as $1,700, and prices on the black market are even higher.
The number of food stamp recipients has more than doubled since 2000, and the cost of the program has more than tripled.
Many 2010 college graduates are finding that there simply aren't any good jobs available for them.
Senior congressional Democrats and the Obama administration are scrambling to line up support for $23 billion in federal aid to avert an estimated 100,000 or more teacher layoffs in a brutal year for education budgets coast to coast.
A court in the U.K. has ruled that a cancer sufferer is to be forced to have "life-saving treatment" against her wishes.
Researchers have found that playing video games before bedtime may give people an unusual level of awareness and control in their dreams.
Strikes across France have delayed flights, closed schools and frustrated commuters as workers protest government plans to raise the retirement age past 60.
The State Department says that the troops being sent to the Mexican border will not be used to stop illegal immigration.
In Pakistan, Islamists armed with pistols and rifles waited for two Christian couples to return to their rented home this week, seeking to kill them after the newlyweds complained to police that the radical Muslims had falsely accused them of desecrating the Quran.
A plague of rats has gobbled up vast swathes of grasslands in north China.
Scientists have identified four new strains of the Ug99 wheat-killing fungus that could endanger the global food supply.
Scientists are warning that a second, much larger volcano in Iceland is showing signs that it may be about to erupt.
A tsunami warning was canceled Friday for Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean after the threat from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake had passed.
Lastly, for something completely different, check out this video of a bear at a Japanese zoo twirling a branch as if the bear was a Kung Fu master.
