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According to a new report, foreclosure filings climbed in 75% of the nation's metro areas during the first half of 2010.

According to RealtyTrac, Florida led the way with nine of the top 20 metro foreclosure rates in the country during the first half of 2010.

According to a new survey of leading economists, the U.S. economic recovery will remain slow deep into next year.

Is the U.S. economy heading straight toward a devastating collapse?

Has the Federal Reserve almost run out of ways to stimulate the economy?

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a fiscal state of emergency - requiring most state employees to take three days of unpaid leave per month until a new budget is enacted.

Investors should be very worried about ultra-loose policy from the Federal Reserve, according to Joachim Fels, the co-head of economics at Morgan Stanley.

European banks have amassed 30 trillion euros in liabilities and face a serious funding threat over the next two years as authorities withdraw emergency support, according to a new report by Standard & Poor's.

It turns out that India has a huge demographic bulge coming which will lead to an enormous labor force spike in the coming years.

46.2 percent of unemployed Americans have been out of work for 27 weeks or more.

Officials say that a Japanese supertanker damaged near the strategic Strait of Hormuz was involved in a collision, but that the cause was unknown.

Barack Obama has signed legislation to fund his troop surge in Afghanistan, even though it was stripped of money for domestic stimulus programs.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently said that continuing the construction freeze in West Bank settlements after it expires on September 26th would be impossible politically and would bring down his coalition.

The Arab League has announced that it has approved direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

The idea of a single state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem is gaining renewed support not only among Palestinians but also among Israeli conservatives.

An Israeli oil prospecting and production firm has formally announced the discovery of a "commercially sized" oil field in central Israel.

It is being reported that Israel is aiding an exiled Arab sheik who is vying to seize control of a strategically important Gulf emirate only 40 miles from Iran.

Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, says that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was risking lives to make a political point by publishing thousands of military reports from Afghanistan.

A California hacker said he doesn't regret going to federal officials to show them alleged confessions an Army private made about leaking more than 90,000 documents that reveal secret information about U.S. war strategy.

Two days after BP said it will write off the cost of the oil spill cleanup against its income taxes, a U.S. senator is calling for a Congressional probe into the company's tax plans.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has blocked an independent investigation into the Gulf oil spill disaster.

Up to 4 million barrels (167 million gallons), the vast majority of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, remains unaccounted for in government statistics.

Crews along the Kalamazoo River in Michigan were busy Tuesday skimming oil and placing booms to prevent further damage from what is likely the largest oil spill in the history of the Midwest.

Growing concern over the worst drought in a century in Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia have rocked world wheat markets in recent weeks.

Analysts are warning that the massive drought in Russia may cut Russian wheat exports in half.

Investors in farmland are targeting countries with weak laws, buying arable land on the cheap and failing to deliver on promises of jobs and investments, according to the draft of a report by the World Bank.

It turns out that the Democrats snuck all sorts of nasty little surprises into the financial reform bill that was just passed.

According to one new poll, 72 percent of Americans do not believe that the U.S. government is enforcing existing immigration laws.

The legal battle over the new Arizona immigration law entered its next stage when Gov. Jan Brewer filed an expedited appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual's Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation.

The House ethics committee has charged U.S. Representative Charles Rangel with 13 violations of House rules involving alleged financial wrongdoing and harming the credibility of Congress.

It turns out that Barack Obama's assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration, Eric P. Schwartz, previously served as the director of a George Soros-funded organization that promoted world government.

Security experts, consumer advocates and privacy campaigners have sounded the alarm over the hundreds of thousands of free smartphone applications that spy on their users.

The Russian security service has been given extended powers to act against people for so-called "thought crime" under a new law which opponents say marks a return to Soviet-era policing.

Time Magazine is asking this question: "Why Are French Women Killing Their Babies?"

One out of every five California adults say that they could use help with a mental or emotional problem.

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Thoughtful House Center for Children in Austin, Texas, have found remarkably similar brain changes to those seen in autism in infant monkeys receiving the vaccine schedule used in the 1990’s that contained the mercury-based preservative thimerosal.

Scientists say that microscopic marine algae which form the foundation of the ocean food chain are dying at a terrifying rate.

U.S. hikers may be locked out of hundreds of caves and 30,000 abandoned mines in the West and Midwest in a government plan to protect bats from disease.

A newborn zedonk, an unusual cross between a donkey and a zebra, is attracting attention at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in north Georgia.

Now some scientists are saying that there probably was no "Big Bang" after all.

As the battle over same-sex unions continues in the U.S., a film dubbed "the lesbian marriage movie" is becoming a breakaway hit.

In a first since it was organized eight years ago, the route of the annual gay pride parade in Jerusalem will end in front of the Knesset.

Dozens of Orthodox rabbis have signed a statement of principles saying that religious communities must accept those of its members who are "active homosexuals" and their biological or adopted children, and that they must not be encouraged to undergo "change therapies" or marry someone of the opposite sex.

A federal judge upheld the right of a counseling program at Eastern Michigan University to kick out a master's student who refused to affirm the morality of homosexuality.

Attorneys with a Christian legal firm have urged mayors in South Carolina and Florida not to give in to the demands of atheists by removing Christian invocations from their council meetings.

A pastor in the Russian republic of Dagestan known for founding the biggest Protestant church in the region and for successfully reaching out to Muslims has been killed by unidentified gunmen.

Jeffrey Thompson is talking about the day when he almost died.

Televangelist Benny Hinn has posted a plea for $2 million in donations on his website.

The United Nations has declared that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right.

Has science adopted an authoritarian tone?

Foxes vs. rats?  Local authorities in China have mobilized an army of specially-bred and trained silver foxes to combat a destructive plague of rats.

Sheikh ‘Abd Al-Muhsin Al-’Obikan, an advisor at the Saudi Justice Ministry, recently issued a fatwa allowing the breastfeeding of adults.

According to a new survey, more than 95 percent of exterminators across the United States are reporting bed bug infestations.

Shocking new research indicates that Christians who call on the name of Jesus can actually stop aliens abductions.

Bar Ilan University archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a Philistine temple in the ancient city of Gath - the city that the Bible says Goliath was from.

Amazon has launched a cheaper, wireless-only Kindle, betting that the $139 price will turn its latest electronic reader into a mass-appeal device as Apple's iPad gains ground.

The Chinese government is denying charges by a U.S. business group that its technology transfer rules for foreign firms constitute "theft" on a massive scale.

Could cyber attacks from China cause the evaporation of all the data and knowledge stored on the Internet?

A cyber mastermind from Slovenia who is suspected of creating a malicious software code that infected 12 million computers worldwide and orchestrating other huge cyberscams has been arrested and questioned.

Lastly, Google is reported to have jointly invested with the CIA in an Internet monitoring project that scours Twitter accounts, blogs and websites for all sorts of information, and can also "predict the future".