The most important news for Wednesday, December 16th, 2009.....
Time magazine has named Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as its Person of the Year.
Barack Obama's recent meeting with the CEOs of the major investment banks revealed hints of who is really the boss.
Iran has successfully test-fired a long-range missile that can reportedly hit targets 1,250 miles away - putting it in reach of Israel as well as U.S. bases in the Gulf, and most of southeast Europe.
In a move designed to deter Iran from pursuing its nuclear program, the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved legislation to impose sanctions on foreign companies that help supply gasoline to Iran.
Several Arab states in the Persian Gulf region have agreed to launch a single currency modeled after the Euro.
A new poster campaign sponsored by the United Nations depicts humans as evil horror movie monsters intent on viciously slaughtering wildlife.
Pope Benedict said on Tuesday that industrialized nations must recognize their responsibility for the "environmental crisis", shed their consumerism and embrace more limited lifestyles.
One organization has published a list of 100 reasons why climate change is natural.
Is there a population control agenda behind the global warming movement?
A new wave of H1N1 deaths is being reported in Ukraine.
School officials in Kansas City say that hundreds of kids face suspension if they don't get their required immunizations.
800,000 doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine for children have been recalled because they were not "strong enough".
Russian authorities are saying that Western forces in Afghanistan are to blame for the flood of heroin that is coming into Russia.
A new video shows members of the Muslims Of America participating in paramilitary style training on their compound in upstate New York, near the town of Hancock.
In response to a Swiss vote banning the construction of new mosque minarets, a group of Muslims recently went into a church in eastern Turkey and threatened to kill a priest unless he tore down its bell tower.
The United States are hoping to restart Israeli-Palestinian talks on the basis of the June 4, 1967 borders and a complete freeze of construction beyond the Green Line, including East Jerusalem. So what are the Palestinians going to give up?
A new bill has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
A new poll has revealed that more than half of America's unemployed workers have borrowed money from friends or relatives since losing their jobs.
Recent polling data suggests that unmarried, unchurched, poor and inexperienced Americans are more likely to be pro-Obama.
Are some European nations beginning to stand up to the IMF?
Former presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin has posted a great article that contains a list of things that we will all need if disaster strikes.
Does the CIA have an elite army of assassins?
Are Satanists much more prevalent and much more organized in the United States than most Americans would dare to believe?
A new study says that only half of all Britons now consider themselves to be Christians after a "sharp decline" in religious belief over the past quarter of a century.
It turns out that the U.S. Army is once again using depleted uranium in new weapons that it is developing.
A group of activists dedicated to bringing Jews to the Temple Mount is hoping to see hundreds of participants take part in a planned "mass pilgrimage" to the site scheduled for Thursday morning in honor of Hannuka.
The national health care system in the U.K. is in a state of meltdown.
Thefts of video game systems, digital cameras, computers and other high-end consumer electronics have soared in the past three years.
The D.C. Council has voted to legalize same-sex marriage in Washington D.C.
Tiger Woods finds himself in the middle of a fresh controversy after it was reported in the United States that a Canadian doctor who helped Woods recover from knee surgery is being investigated by the FBI under suspicion of supplying athletes with performance enhancing drugs.
The Yellowstone volcano is inflating with molten rock at a record rate.
Researchers have revealed the first photos from the Caribbean sea floor of what they believe are the archaeological remains of an ancient civilization.
Deforestation is revealing signs of what could be a previously unknown ancient civilization in the Amazon.
A second grade student in Massachusetts who drew a picture of Jesus on the cross was forced to undergo a psychiatric test.
Lastly, the biggest mutual fund sponsor in the United States and one of the world’s largest providers of financial services has fired four executives for playing fantasy football.
