SPB News for Saturday

Obama's 100 Days Press Conference Draws 28.8M Viewers

Elizabeth Edwards write about husband's affair in book

Senate Votes Down Bill That Would Have Aided Homeowners


House Passes Credit Card Reform Bill 357-70

Meghan McCain: Specter illustrates what's wrong with Republicans

Revealed: Pic local GOP chair used to mock Specter with cancer

ExxonMobil profits plunge nearly 60%
US oil giant says earnings fall to $4.5B amid global economic contraction.

KBR 1st quarter profits fall

GM to furlough salaried workers

Bunning poised to retire — Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning, the most endangered Republican up for reelection in 2010, appears headed for retirement after giving his leading GOP rival the blessing to prepare to run for his seat next year. — Bunning's retirement would be a huge victory …

Donors demand refund from Specter — Political switch gets expensive as lawmaker's support shrinks — Sen. Arlen Specter's switch to the Democratic Party is prompting his campaign donors large and small to demand their money back, including several Republican senators whose political …

Hints That Detainees May Be Held on U.S. Soil — WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates suggested on Thursday that as many as 100 detainees at the prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba would end up held without trial on American soil, a scenario he acknowledged would create widespread if not unanimous opposition in Congress.

Alleged Al Qaeda Sleeper Agent in U.S. Pleads Guilty — Last ‘Enemy Combatant’ Held on U.S. Soil Pleads to Terrorism Charges — The man known for nearly six years as the last “enemy combatant” held on U.S. soil has pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism.

Senate Rejects Bankruptcy Bailout for Troubled Homeowners — ABC's Z. Byron Wolf reports from Capitol Hill: On the same day that the White House announced that overextended Chrysler would go into a “quick” bankruptcy — its loans rewritten by a judge to emerge for life another day …


Robert Byrd Demands Torture Investigation By Bob Fertik Sen. Robert Byrd, the longest-serving Senator in history, Thursday demanded an investigation of torture by the Bush Administration: "The recently leaked report from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), as well as the four released memorandums from the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), confirm our worst fears. These documents point to brutal, inhumane acts which were repeatedly carried out by U.S. military personnel, and which were authorized and condoned at the highest levels of the Bush Administration. These acts appear to directly violate both the U.N. Convention Against Torture and the Geneva Conventions. Spain and the United Kingdom have already initiated investigations of Bush Administration officials who approved these acts. The United States needs to investigate as well. To continue to ignore the mounting evidence of clear wrongdoing is a national humiliation."

David Cameron demands Iraq war inquiry David Cameron, the Conservative Party leader, has demanded an immediate inquiry into the Iraq war as the UK prepared to end its military operations in the country. The only reasons for delay were political, he said, as Prime Minister Gordon Brown welcomed his counterpart Nouri al-Maliki to Downing Street for talks.