SPB News for Tuesday

Gay partnership makes Washington ballot

Biden: If GOP Stumbles In '10, Country Will Be Changed For 20 Years

Newsweek Reporter: CIA Is 'Freaking Out' Over Holder Probe

White House: Dick Cheney is wrong

Chuck Grassley Fundraises Against Health-Care Reform — Chuck Grassley is facing a potentially difficult primary challenge in 2010. As such, he's been working hard to cover his right flank. That would all be fine except for one thing: As ranking member of the Finance Committee …

Governor sets date for special Senate election, presses for interim appointment — Governor Deval Patrick continued today to press for a change to state law to allow him to appoint an interim replacement for Senator Edward M. Kennedy as he announced that a special election for the seat will be held on Jan. 19.

As Banks Repay Bailout Money, U.S. Sees a Profit — Nearly a year after the federal rescue of the nation's biggest banks, taxpayers have begun seeing profits from the hundreds of billions of dollars in aid that many critics thought might never be seen again.

Cheney wanted to bomb Iran

Pushed for a military strike to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons program.

$3.1B set aside for jobless unclaimed

US officials cancel contract to profile reporters U.S. military authorities in Afghanistan have terminated a contract with a public affairs company that was producing background profiles of reporters covering a war that's becoming increasingly unpopular with the American public. The work being done by The Rendon Group had become a "distraction to our main mission here," Rear Adm. Gregory Smith, director of communications for U.S. Forces Afghanistan, said Monday in an e-mailed statement.

Ex-Rep. Jefferson Files For Bankruptcy

Disney To Buy Marvel For $4 Billion