SPB News for Saturday.

Bush Hosts $25K A Plate RNC Lunch In OK

Honduras Snubs US Envoy In Support of Bolivia, Venezuela

Changes grant FBI expanded powers

More than 12k agents can now conduct surveillance without approval

Biden's son quits lobbying business

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Obama mocks McCain as computer illiterate

Iraq ditches plans for no-bid oil contracts An Iraqi plan to award six no-bid contracts to Western oil companies [Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell, Total, BP and other smaller businesses] has been withdrawn, those involved in the negotiations say. Iraq's Oil Minister, Hussain al-Shahristani, told reporters at an OPEC summit meeting in Vienna on Tuesday that talks for one-year deals, which were announced in June and subsequently delayed, had dragged on for so long that the companies could not now fulfill the work within that time frame.

UN: 4 new cholera cases confirmed in Iraq Iraqi and U.N. officials say four cholera cases have been confirmed in Karbala, a holy Shiite city south of Baghdad. The new cases come in addition to 36 previously announced by the Iraqi Health Ministry, and show that the latest outbreak of the gastrointestinal disease has spread to a new area.

Military Judge In Guantanamo Bay Postpones Omar Khadr's Trial The U.S. military judge in Guantanamo Bay postponed the Oct. 8 trial of half-Canadian, half-Afghan youth Omar Khadr. An earlier hearing slated Wednesday was also canceled because the flight of Khadr's lawyers, prosecutors and military judge did not push through due to Hurricane Ike.