SPB News for Saturday.

Obama win boosts U.S. gun sales
Gun owner: 'Buy it now or you're not going to have a chance in the future.'

Automakers ask gov't for another $50 bil

Obama says distressed automakers a 'high priority' of transition to Oval Office.

Sen. Craig Raises Only $4,600 To Pay Legal Bills

McCain Urges Supporters To Offer Obama "Good Will"

Shell secures 25-year access to Iraq's oil, gas A joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell and Iraq's state-owned South Gas Co. could give Shell a 25-year monopoly on production and exports of natural gas in much of southern Iraq - the biggest foreign role in Iraq's oil and gas sector in four decades. The planned venture, spelled out in a 16-page document obtained by United Press International, goes well beyond descriptions provided by Iraqi and Shell officials on Sept. 22, when they held a public signing ceremony in Baghdad.

Judge asks media whether to release Guantanamo Bay 'torture' evidence A High Court judge has invited the media for advice about publishing legal evidence in a case concerning a British terror suspect held at Guantanamo Bay. Binyam Mohamed, a British resident... was later secretly rendered to Morocco, where he says he was tortured by having his penis cut with a razor blade. The US subsequently flew him to Afghanistan and he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay in September 2004. Mr Mohamed wants access to documents held by the British Government he believes support his claim that he was subjected to extraordinary rendition and ill-treatment.

Blackwater could face sanctions for improper arms shipments Private security contractor Blackwater Worldwide soon may face new legal problems. A grand jury in Washington is expected to decide soon whether to indict individual Blackwater mercenaries involved in a widely publicized shooting incident in Baghdad last year, two people familiar with the investigation said. And the State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, which is responsible for export controls on some arms, is moving to hit the North Carolina-based firm with what could be millions of dollars in fines for shipping weapons to police training facilities in Iraq and Jordan without proper licensing, according to three officials briefed on the probe.

Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression. Instead, the accounts suggest that Georgia’s inexperienced military attacked the isolated separatist capital of Tskhinvali on Aug. 7 with indiscriminate artillery and rocket fire, exposing civilians, Russian peacekeepers and unarmed monitors to harm.

Lieberman in talks about caucusing with Senate GOP Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is talking to Connecticut 'independent' Sen. Joe Lieberman about the possibility of Lieberman caucusing with the GOP. Lieberman's affiliation with Democrats is up in the air. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, angered by Lieberman's support of Republican John McCain for president, is considering yanking Lieberman's chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee as punishment.

CT Dems' Lieberman resolution: "extraordinary disloyalty" means he must resign from party By Rick Green Connecticut Democrats fed up with Sen. Joe Lieberman are eagerly waiting to hear what happens in Washington, but their own censure resolution now pending before the state central committee is pretty clear about what should be done. Lieberman's "extraordinary disloyalty" means he should resign from the party.

Feinstein in line to chair Senate Intel Committee California Sen. Dianne Feinstein is in line to become the first female chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The opening was created Friday amid a chairmanship shuffle sparked by the announcement that Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia was stepping down as head of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Obama apologizes to Nancy Reagan for ‘careless’ joke — President-elect Barack Obama called Nancy Reagan this afternoon to apologize for a joke about her having held “séances” in the White House, an Obama aide said. — “President-elect Barack Obama called Nancy Reagan…

Breaking News: Obama wins electoral vote in Nebraska — Barack Obama made history yesterday in Nebraska. — The Democratic presidential candidate claimed an electoral vote in the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District — the first time in more than four decades a Democrat won any of Nebraska's electoral votes.

Schumer eyes exit from DSCC