SPB News for Sunday.

In racially exclusive neighborhood, residents worry Bush's new home will make it a 'target'

Obama: Lobbyist docs go online

Special interest meetings will see full disclosure on Web, says President-elect.

15 Blackwater guards indicted

Rice won't deny CIA kidnappings

Justice Dept. Says Pentagon Must Comply With EPA Cleanup Orders The Justice Department dealt a blow to the Pentagon this week, saying it has no legal authority to resist orders from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up Fort Meade in Maryland and two other military sites that have been contaminated by chemicals. In a Dec. 1 letter obtained by The Washington Post, Steven G. Bradbury, principal deputy assistant attorney general at Justice, said that the Pentagon had no legal grounds to resist the cleanup orders from the EPA. The letter was celebrated by critics of the Pentagon, the nation's largest polluter.

Laid-off workers occupy Chicago factory --'We're doing something we haven't since the 1930s,' labor organizer says Workers laid off from their jobs at a factory have occupied the building and are demanding assurances they'll get severance and vacation pay that they say they are owed. About 200 employees of Republic Windows and Doors began their sit-in Friday, the last scheduled day of the plant's operation.

Lousiana voters oust indicted Rep. William Jefferson
AP reports that Rep. William Jefferson (D) has been defeated in his bid for a 10th term by Republican attorney Anh “Joseph” Cao, who will become the first Vietnamese-American in Congress. Jefferson has “pleaded not guilty to charges of bribery, laundering money and misusing his congressional office.”