SPB News for Wednesday.

Paterson to introduce gay marriage bill

NY gov. to announce plans to introduce legislation to legalize same-sex marriage.

Author Richard Wright gets US stamp

eBay plans to sell off Skype

Scarborough to Coleman: 'It is over'

Krugman: Rightwing billionaires behind tea parties

Green Light: JPMorgan Chase Gets Go-Ahead for Corporate Jet Hangar

Poll: Palin 'most untrustworthy'

Judge: Suit against Cheney's security detail may proceed

Iraq war: Gordon Brown aims to delay inquiry report until after election Gordon Brown will announce by the autumn a "long" inquiry into the Iraq war, indicating that the potentially embarrassing report will be delayed until well after the general election expected next year. Ministers have decided that the inquiry should be wide-ranging, possibly dating back to Margaret Thatcher's tacit support for [CIA asset] Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.

Guns, Drugs Seized From Homeland Security Officer --DHS officer was caught with 40 grams of cocaine, 65 grams of marijuana bagged for sale, a shotgun, two pistols, close to 100 rounds of ammunition and more than $6,000 in cash. A Homeland Security employee at Orlando International Airport is in the Brevard County Detention Center on numerous drug trafficking and gun charges. Timothy Monroe, was arrested Wednesday at his Palm Bay home on Coral Reef Road. According to the Palm Bay Police Department, a three month investigation led them to Monroe.

Top Lebanese ex-officer admits to spying for Israel Lebanese media outlets are reporting on Tuesday that a retired senior officer in the Lebanese defense apparatus has acknowledged to authorities that he collaborated with Israeli intelligence services for a period of over ten years. The Beirut-based Arab language newspapers Al-Akhbar and A-Safir are reporting that the officer, who goes by the code name "Adib", is suspected of heading a spy ring that passed along information to Israeli intelligence.

Dream job: $21.5M - to do nothing at all --Port Authority paying Larry Silverstein $21.5 million but has yet to seek 'development' tips The Port Authority is paying Larry Silverstein $21.5 million to develop the Freedom Tower - even though he has absolutely no role in building the 1,776-foot icon, the Daily News has learned. More than two years after the builder lost control of the planned 102-story tower at Ground Zero, he is collecting $500,000 monthly "development fees" - and the checks will keep flowing until mid-2010, documents show. The giveaway - $15.25 million so far and an additional $6.25 million in the pipeline - is costing bridge and tunnel commuters the equivalent of 2.7 million George Washington Bridge tolls or 12.3 million PATH fares.

Vatican vetoes Barack Obama's nominees for US ambassador --Caroline Kennedy deemed unacceptable because of abortion views The Vatican has vetoed three of Barack Obama's potential nominees as US ambassador amid a growing dispute between the White House and the Roman Catholic church over the new administration's support for abortion rights and the lifting of a ban on stem cell research. Vatican sources told Italy's Il Giornale newspaper that among those rejected were Caroline Kennedy and two other Roman Catholics who were unacceptable to the pope because they have publicly stood against church dogma.

Polar Bear to Deliver 50,000 Petitions to Interior Secretary Requesting He Rescind Bush Regulations (Center for Biological Diversity) (Anchorage) At tomorrow’s hearing to gain public input on development of Alaska’s outer continental shelf, a polar bear will be on hand to deliver 50,000 petitions to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar requesting that he rescind two rules passed in the final days of the Bush administration that weaken the Endangered Species Act. One of these rules exempts thousands of federal activities, including those that generate greenhouse gases, from review under the Endangered Species Act, and the other sharply limits protections for the threatened polar bear.

ELIOT SPITZER'S WANDERING EYE ON AG — BEHIND Eliot Spitzer's flaccid attempt at re-erecting his public persona is a plan to run for state attorney general in 2010, sources told Page Six. — After launching a column on Slate.com, and giving interviews to National Public Radio and the