SPB News for Friday

Ex--trainer: Gov't officials think interrogation is like TV's '24'

Meghan McCain to Cheney: 'You had your 8 years. Go away.'

Tiger Woods In The White House

Goss: Obama Decision “Crossed a Red Line” — Porter Goss, former CIA Director and past chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, blasted the Obama administration for releasing Justice Department memos on harsh interrogation techniques. “For the first time in my experience we've crossed …

Sources say Tedisco concession likely — A finish line could be in sight in the race for the 20th Congressional District. With the numbers not looking good for Republican Jim Tedisco, sources tell Capital News 9 that Tedisco could concede to Democrat Scott Murphy as soon as Friday afternoon.

Palestinian leader Abbas to visit Obama on May 28

ND student groups support Obama visit

Blagojevich's Ex-Chief of Staff Pleads Not Guilty

NY-20 GOPer Tries To AxeRadio Host Sam Seder's Ballot

Bloomberg: "The trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's defunct money management firm told 223 investors to return as much as $735 million or face legal action, said a person familiar with the matter."

Obama at 100 Days: Strong Job Approval, Even Higher Personal Ratings — Better Ratings for Foreign Policy than Domestic Issues — As he approaches the 100-day mark of his presidency, Barack Obama's job approval ratings are higher than those of his most recent predecessors.

British soldiers 'tortured and murdered 20 Iraqis, then covered it up with firefight claim' British soldiers tortured and murdered up to 20 Iraqis in cold blood, the High Court was told yesterday. It happened after a three-hour gun battle at an Army checkpoint near Basra, a lawyer claimed. Rabinder Singh said a group of local men were taken prisoner and transported to an Army camp where they were beaten with a rusty tent pole, punched, slammed against walls, denied water, blasted with loud music and forced to strip naked in the presence of a woman -- a humiliation for Muslim men.

Sources: GM to shut most US plants up to 9 weeks General Motors Corp. is planning to temporarily close most of its U.S. factories for up to nine weeks this summer because of slumping sales and growing inventories of unsold vehicles, three people briefed on the plan said Wednesday. Analysts say the company could be seeing sales decline because of talk about a potential bankruptcy.

Rice gave nod to suspect's water torture US national security adviser Condoleeza Rice approved a CIA request to subject alleged al-Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubaydah to waterboarding in July 2002. A few days later, the Justice Department approved the use of the torture technique in a secret memo that the Obama administration declassified last week. Rice's role was detailed in a narrative released today by the Senate Intelligence Committee. It provides the most detailed timeline yet for how the CIA's torture program was conceived and approved at the highest levels in the Bush White House.

Chicago booting cars with two unpaid tickets, 65,000 seizure notices mailed --Crackdown: City has slapped boot on 415 vehicles under new policy Chicago is lowering the boom on motorists with two unpaid parking tickets older than one year after lowering the threshold for applying the Denver boot: 65,318 seizure notices have been mailed and 415 vehicles have been booted. Desperate for dollars to erase a threatened $300 million budget shortfall, City Hall has embarked on a booting blitz sparked by the City Council's decision to drop the booting threshold from three unpaid tickets to two.

Jury begins deliberations in mob leak trial
As federal jurors began deliberating Thursday in the trial of Deputy U.S. Marshal John Ambrose, one of many questions they faced was the value of a revealed secret.
In their final pitches of the nine-day trial, attorneys argued over whether Ambrose shared minimal information while bragging to a family friend or spilled sensitive details that might have crippled the Family Secrets mob investigation in its infancy.