SPB News for Tuesday.

U.S. Banks To Make $38B From Customer Overdraft Fees

FBI looks at Tiller killer's visitors
'Who's who of anti- abortion militants' visit, speak to Roeder.

Obama to high court: Suppress torture photos

Offering the first personal account of “his dramatic rescue of two jailed journalists from North Korea,” former President Bill Clinton said, “I was asked to do a job. I did it to the best of my ability.” Clinton added that he did not want “to say anything that could in any way play any role in the maximum freedom that I want my President and our government and the national security team to have in charting the way forward.”

Judge sentences man to 6 months in jail for yawning — 6-month term given by judge who has doled out the most charges of contempt in Will — Clifton Williams arrived at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet and sat in the fourth-floor courtroom where his cousin was pleading guilty to a felony drug charge.

Another 45,000 US troops needed in Afghanistan, military adviser says The United States should send up to 45,000 extra troops to Afghanistan, a senior adviser to the American commander in Kabul has told The Times. Anthony Cordesman, an influential American academic who is a member of a team that has been advising General Stanley McChrystal, now in charge of Nato forces in Afghanistan, also said that to deal with the threat from the Taleban the size of the Afghan National Army might have to increase to 240,000.

Pay Is Scrutinized at U.S. Contractors --KBR Inc., will be asked about its executive compensation billing policies. Executive pay at government contractors is drawing scrutiny from federal auditors, who have questioned some companies about compensation and pensions they have charged taxpayers. The questions come amid a broader examination of executive pay, especially at financial companies receiving taxpayer-funded bailouts. Contractors also receive government money, though until recently the question of how much of it has gone to executive pay hasn't been a big issue for lawmakers or auditors.

Mexican cartels tied to stolen oil sold in U.S. --Head of Houston oil company pleads guilty to conspiracy, U.S. officials say U.S. refineries bought millions of dollars worth of oil siphoned from Mexican government pipelines and smuggled across the border, the U.S. Justice Department told The Associated Press -- illegal operations now led by Mexican drug cartels expanding their reach. Criminals tap remote pipelines, sometimes building pipelines of their own, to siphon off hundreds of millions of dollars worth of oil each year, the Mexican oil monopoly said. At least one U.S. oil executive has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in such a deal.