SPB News for Saturday

Sen. Kyl To Obama: Don't Fire Bank CEOs

WH Military Director Resigns After Botched NYC Air Force One Flyover

AIG Exec Staying On With 'Honorary' $250K Salary

Auto Suppliers To Congress: We Need Help

Report: 2 Firms Withdraw From Dissident Chrysler Group

Networks take stand vs. Obama

Toyota posts worst annual loss

Vice President Biden to Deliver Syracuse University Commencement Speech; Visit Local Elementary School

Palin “Supports” Prejean, Dad Claims — Carrie Prejean and Sarah Palin go together like lipstick and pigs. — So says Prejean's father, at least, who tells E! News in an exclusive interview that the Alaska governor has already been in touch with his lightning-rod spawn.

Obama renews sanctions on Syria Despite recent attempts to improve relations with Damascus, a senior official says the Obama administration has extended US sanctions on Syria. Denouncing Damascus as a security threat which continued to dabble in "arms trade" and espouse "terrorism", President Barack Obama signed an executive order renewing the five-year-old sanctions for another year, the State Department said Friday.

Statue of Liberty's crown to re-open July 4 The Statue of Liberty's crown, closed to the public since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, will reopen on July 4, U.S. Independence Day, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Friday.

Chavez seizes oil service firms Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has sent troops to take over companies that provide services for the oil industry. "This is a revolutionary offensive," he told workers near Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela's main oil-producing area. Military vehicles were used as the state oil company seized supply boats and two US-owned gas facilities.

Bush EPA hid data on coal-ash risks, study shows The Bush regime kept secret for nearly five years data that showed increased cancer risks from drinking water polluted by coal-ash impoundments, according to a new report issued Thursday. Under President [sic] Bush, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials never made public an October 2002 study that outlined increased risks of as high as 1 in 50 additional cancer cases.

Holder cautious on U.S. interrogations probes Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday vowed to move cautiously and avoid partisan politics in deciding whether any Bush-era officials should be prosecuted for justifying harsh interrogation techniques .

Interior will keep Bush's polar bear rule --Interior now forced to defend rule in court Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that he will retain the Bush regime's controversial rule [eliminating] polar bear protections, rejecting special authority given to him by Congress and the pleas of Democratic lawmakers, environmentalists and scientists to overturn the regulation.