According to poll, 6 in 10 US citizens believe depression is coming.
Citing $6.5b Taiwan arms sale package, China scraps some diplomacy with US.
U.S. Treasury's Kashkari to Lead Bank Bailout Office The U.S. Treasury will name Neel Kashkari, assistant secretary at the department, to run the $700 billion Wall Street rescue program on an interim basis, according to a Treasury official. Kashkari, a former vice president at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., is currently assistant secretary for international economics and development. He has been one of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's key advisers on housing issues.
Mishaps mark John McCain's record as naval aviator --Three crashes early in his career led Navy officials to question or fault his judgment John McCain was training in his AD-6 Skyraider on an overcast Texas morning in 1960 when he slammed into Corpus Christi Bay and sheared the skin off his plane's wings. The 23-year-old junior lieutenant wasn't paying attention and erred in using "a power setting too low to maintain level flight in a turn," investigators concluded. The crash was one of three early in McCain's aviation career in which his flying skills and judgment were faulted or questioned by Navy officials.
Protesters rally for Omar Khadr's return to Canada Shouting "Omar in, Harper Out," close to a hundred protesters rallied outside Toronto's U.S. consulate Sunday to demand that Canada bring Guantanamo prisoner Omar Khadr home. Conservative leader Stephen Harper has vowed not to interfere in the upcoming war crimes 'trial' of Khadr who was 15 when captured in Afghanistan in 2002.
Former CIA official: 9/11 could not be averted --CIA had over 100 Afghans acting as spies before Sept. 11 terror attacks A top former CIA official said the intelligence agency had more than 100 Afghans acting as spies before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but told a magazine in a rare interview that nothing could have averted the attacks. Cofer Black, the former head of the CIA's counterterrorism center, said that looking back, he can't think of a thing "we could have done that would have changed anything." Black, a top executive with Blackwater Worldwide, the mercenary firm, made the comment in an interview published in November issue of Men's Journal.
Government spies could scan every call, text and email --Critics describe plan as "sinister". Ministers are considering a £12 billion plan to monitor the e-mail, telephone and internet browsing records of every person in Britain. MI5 currently has to apply to the Home Secretary for warrants to intercept specific email and website traffic but, under the new plan, internet and mobile phone networks could be monitored live by GCHQ, the Government listening post.
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