The most important news for Thursday, April 29th, 2010....
The oil spill from last week's deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico has increased to 5,000 barrels a day - 5 times more than the original estimate.
In her new book, Laura Bush is suggesting that she, her husband and several aides may have been poisoned during a 2007 visit to Germany for the G8 summit.
U.S. military officials said on Wednesday that an Iranian navy plane that approached a U.S. aircraft carrier last week was flying as low as 300 feet as it neared the USS Eisenhower.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says that Iran and Syria are arming Hezbollah with increasingly sophisticated rockets and missiles.
Hezbollah has shot back at U.S. accusations it was stockpiling sophisticated weapons and has vowed to continue to build its artillery.
Is Turkey's anti-Israel alignment becoming increasingly defined?
The North Korean military has recently altered its wartime contingency plans against South Korea to concentrate on attacking the Seoul metropolitan region.
It is being reported that China plans to supply two nuclear reactors to Pakistan.
China's navy is rapidly growing and is becoming more aggressive.
Ukraine's EU affairs minister has said that Ukraine's economy will in the coming years integrate more closely with Russia than with the EU unless the Union becomes more open.
A number of other nations are very concerned about America's new super secret space plane.
It is being reported that a Texas lawmaker will soon introduce immigration legislation comparable to that recently signed into law in Arizona.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 60% of American voters nationwide favor an anti-immigration law like Arizona just passed, while just 31% are opposed.
According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Greek debt crisis is spreading "like Ebola" and Europe must act now to protect the stability the financial markets.
It is being reported that the European Central Bank may soon have to invoke emergency powers to prevent the disintegration of southern European bond markets.
European Central Bank Executive Board member Juergen Stark is warning of the danger that a full-blown sovereign debt crisis could break out.
In fact, many analysts are warning that a "tsunami of red ink" threatens to wash over the entire globe.
New changes slipped into the health care bill will force millions of American businesses to issue hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of additional IRS Form 1099s every year.
A 100-year-old woman who has raised 40 foster kids on her farm is now facing foreclosure.
Many people are getting very upset that the U.S. government is helping some Americans make their mortgage payments.
Are the big banks that were bailed out by the U.S. government now making big money by selling bets that state and local governments will fail financially?
Documents released at a Senate hearing into the role Goldman Sachs played in the financial crisis show the firm strategizing on how to bet against its own clients.
The CEO of Goldman Sachs says that he is "generally supportive" of the Wall Street "reform" bill being pushed by the Democrats.
Hundreds of job seekers in New York recently spent several days sleeping in the street just to be at the front of the line to pick up one of the 750 job applications handed out for a position as an elevator technician apprentice.
Is the U.S. Congress about to pass a bill that will severely restrict dietary supplements?
A new study has found that tiny traces of medical hormones, antidepressants, antibiotics and other drugs are trickling into the drinking water of homes and businesses across Delaware.
What role is the CIA playing in Mexico's bloody drug war?
According to a report by Human Rights Watch, Iraqis held at one secret prison in Baghdad were routinely tortured using whips, electric shocks and rape.
The U.S. military is getting really good at one thing - creating really confusing PowerPoint presentations.
Russian lawmakers are considering extending new powers to the F.S.B., the successor to the Soviet-era K.G.B., allowing its officers to summon citizens and issue verbal or written warnings that their activities are "unacceptable" and leading toward a crime, even if no violation has occurred.
The Anti-Defamation League says that alleged racial slurs by Tea Party protesters against Congress members in March are "hate speech" and not protected by the First Amendment.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group that is widely accused of having ties to terrorists, has called on congressional sponsors of the National Day of Prayer event on Capitol Hill to rescind Franklin Graham's invitation to speak at the May 6 gathering.
If lobbyists in Albany get their way, everyone with a drivers license in New York State will automatically become organ donors, unless they specifically tell the government that they do not want to be.
One team of "researchers" claim that there are genes from over 20 extraterrestrial civilizations in Human DNA.
It turns out that the U.S. government is collecting the DNA of all of our newborn babies - whether we like it or not.
A prominent European human rights group is saying that parents who spank their children should be prosecuted for assault.
A two year old boy in the U.K. was recently banned from eating cheese sandwiches at a council-run nursery unless his parents added a lettuce leaf.
It turns out that more than 50 new surface earthquake faults have been discovered in California over just the last two decades.
The Boy Scouts are offering a new merit pin - for video gaming.
Lastly, it turns out that the niece of Bill and Hillary Clinton is living on food stamps.
