yahoonews | WASHINGTON – The fate of House legislation to freeze the budgets of most Cabinet departments and fund the war in Afghanistan for another year is now in the hands of the Senate, where it faces uncertain prospects. The House passed the bill Wednesday evening by a 212-206 vote. It would ca...

ABCnews | A mile below the surface in the Gulf of Mexico, there is little sign of life. "It looks like everything's dead," University of Georgia professor Samantha Joye said. In an exclusive trip aboard the U.S. Navy's deep-ocean research submersible Alvin, ABC News was given the chance to observe...

theeconomiccollapseblog.com | Did you see Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on 60 Minutes the other night?  Bernanke portrayed the Federal Reserve as the great protector of the U.S. economy, he claimed that unemployment would be 15 percent higher if the Federal Reserve had sat back and done...

rawstory | Deficit commission to begin debate on co-chairs' plan, including Social Security benefit cuts Divisions remain within President Barack Obama's deficit commission on politically explosive budget cuts and slashes in Social Security benefits, even as the panel's co-chairmen go public with a...

dailymail.co.uk | Hollywood star Mark Ruffalo has been placed on a terror watch list by U.S. officials after organizing screenings for a new documentary about natural gas drilling. The Zodiac actor arranged showings for GasLand earlier this year and spoke out about the dangers to the national water...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate, by a convincingly bipartisan 73-25 vote Tuesday, passed a sweeping reform of the nation's food safety laws. "Today's vote will finally give the (Food and Drug Administration) the tools it needs to help ensure that the food on dinner tables and store she...

charlotteconservative.com | In what can only be described as a huge victory for the libertarian wing of the GOP, word is leaking out of Washington that Congressman Ron Paul of Texas is about to be appointed Chairman of the Financial Services subcommittee. The committee has near complete oversight of...

theeconomiccollapseblog.com | As you gather around the table with your family this Thanksgiving, ask yourself this question: are you better off today than you were four years ago?  Unfortunately, most Americans are not.  Both political parties have controlled the White House during the las...

local15tv.com | (BON SECOUR, Ala.) Bon Secour shrimpers say their nets and catch were covered with oil from Gulf floor during a shrimping trip off the coast Louisiana Saturday.  Debra Nelson says her husband and two sons headed offshore, about forty miles from where...

allgov.com | The CIA is being forced to produce specific information regarding secret tests conducted on thousands of soldiers over a 25-year period.   In response to a lawsuit filed by three veterans groups and six individual veterans, a federal judge, James Larson, ordered the CIA and other...

dailymail.co.uk | Protesters called for George W. Bush to be arrested for his role in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as he opened his presidential library in Dallas.   Demonstrators staked hundreds of white crosses into the ground to represent troops killed in both wars and carried banners say...

breitbart.com | ATLANTA, Nov. 13, 2010  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States Supreme Court will soon issue a landmark decision on the validity of the Constitution.  The Supreme Court will consider three petitions filed by William M. Windsor, a retired Atlanta, Georgia grandfather. ...

theeconomiccollapseblog.com | Even with all of the massive economic problems that the United States is facing, if the government would just get off our backs most of us would do okay.  In America today, it is rapidly getting to the point where it is nearly impossible to start or to operate a sm...

nypost.com | First California. Now they're shooting at Queens! Two days after a mysterious vapor trail appeared at sundown off the Los Angeles coast -- triggering fears of an enemy missile attack -- a stunning replay occurred in the sky over Far Rockaway. A passer-by snapped a photo of a billowing...

floridaoilspilllaw.com | Dr. Soto also says he’s seeing more patients who are testing positive for toxic agents associated with the oil spill in excess of the 95th percentile. If they’re spreading beyond the shoreline, could we all be at risk?… [W]hen you get a huge load of toxins and chemicals, t...

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The Pentagon is unable to explain images of what appears to be a high-altitude rocket or missile launched off the coast of southern California at sunset Monday, officials said. The Pentagon and the North American Aerospace Defense Command were investigating video sh...

yahoonews | Another American icon has bit the dust: Pontiac. GM is canceling the 84-year-old brand after winding down production over the past few years. Like other American automakers, it is restructuring and rebranding to compete with foreign companies.   Pontiac joins a long list of ico...

(NaturalNews) Not even six months after the first reports about the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico made headlines, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) joined together with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to announce that virtually all Gulf seafood is no...

examiner.com | An oil "clean-up worker" described to a reporter his vomiting foamy matter with brown colored matter in it that he later learned was probably blood. The Gulf operation involves the greatest crime against humanity and environment plus the greatest government cover-up in history, an atr...

huffingtonpost.com | A memo obtained by the Huffington Post confirms that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort of wide-ranging deal that both parties have been denying over the past week. The memo, which according to a knowledgeable health care lobbyist...