By Mayur Pahilajani | AllHeadlineNews.com | Mar. 9, 2009
Crude is edging towards $50-per-barrel mark level on Monday after rising 6 percent last week on anticipation that OPEC will further cut output to raise global oil prices.

USAToday.com | Mar. 8, 2009
The president has the authority to detain people without charge, the Supreme Court decided today, dismissing a challenge by suspected al-Qaeda operative Ali Al-Marri.

By Dane Schiller | Houston Chronicle | Mar. 7, 2009
The order was clear: Kill the guy in the Astros jersey. But in a case of mistaken identity, Jose Perez ended up dead. The intended target — the Houston-based head of a Mexican drug cartel cell pumping millions of dollars of cocaine into the city — walked away.

FoxNews.com | Mar. 9, 2009
Supporters say it will open up a broad front of research to find better treatments for ailments from diabetes to Parkinson's disease; opponents saying destroying embryos for research is morally wrong. 

By Kelleigh Nelson | Rense.com | Mar. 8, 2009
Has anyone ever thought about us just making Mexico the 51st state? It would be a lot easier.  You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much? Read on... Boy,was I confused. I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is the Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us. I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.

The Associated Press | Mar. 7, 2009
Evidence of the slumping economy is stacking up at an Ohio school which has nearly 700 applications for one open janitorial job.

AFP | Mar. 9, 2009
US pharmaceutical giants Merck and Schering-Plough announced their merger early Monday in a stock-and-cash transaction valued at 41.1 billion dollars.

Margaret Griffis | AntiWar.com | Mar. 8, 2009
At least 61 Iraqis were killed and 84 more were wounded across the country. While a suicide bombing in Baghdad was the most significant incident of the day, a mass grave gave up almost as many dead in Khalis. Meanwhile, 12,000 U.S. servicemembers will be receiving orders to leave Iraq by September. Also, the family of a U.S.-veteran turned security contractor said that a sniper killed him in Baghdad on Wednesday.

CampaignForLiberty.com | Mar. 4, 2009
Momentum continues to build for Dr. Paul's legislation to audit the Federal Reserve!  The title is "The Federal Reserve Transparency Act," and the bill currently has 11 cosponsors.

By Susan Donaldson James | ABC News | March 6, 2009
The parents of an 18-year-old who suffered a brain injury in a 2007 snowboarding accident say his doctors "intentionally killed" him to harvest his organs.

CBC News | Mar. 6, 2009
A Health Canada study of canned pop has found the vast majority of the drinks contain the chemical bisphenol A, a substance that imitates the female hormone estrogen and is banned in baby bottles.

By Carole Lee | Politico.com | Mar. 5, 2009
President Barack Obama doesn’t go anywhere without his TelePrompter. The textbook-sized panes of glass holding the president’s prepared remarks follow him wherever he speaks.

Presstv.ir | Mar. 5, 2009
Top US politicians have reportedly said that Israel is seriously considering taking unilateral military action against Iran.

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By Sean D. Naylor  | Army Times | Mar. 6, 2009
Special Forces soldiers and Central Intelligence Agency operatives could soon be moving seamlessly between the military and intelligence realms if Congress follows advice it received Tuesday. The special operations community and the CIA each would benefit from a much closer integration of their personnel, Roger Carstens, a recently retired Special Forces lieutenant colonel who is a non-resident fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and Robert Martinage, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, told a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee’s terrorism, unconventional threats and capabilities subcommittee.