SPB News for Wednesday

Wealthy Fmr. Donor Attacks Obama Over Flyover And Spending

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

GOPers Seize On Memo About Economics Of Climate Proposal

US Gets Seat on UN Rights Council That Bush Opposed

Man steals stamps for mortgage

Postal worker tried to sell $20,000 in stamps on eBay to pay home loan.

Cheney backs Jeb for president

Alaska Governor Palin signs book deal: report

A MESSAGE TO THE PUBLIC: — Each year the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds report on the current and projected financial status of the two programs. This message summarizes our 2009 Annual Reports. — The financial condition of the Social Security and Medicare programs remains challenging.

FDA Blasts General Mills Over Cheerios Claim — Cereal Makers Scolded Because Claim Of Lowering Cholesterol 10 Percent In Month Makes It A “Drug” — Company Fires Back: This Is About Language, Not Science — NEW YORK (CBS) ― The Food and Drug Administration scolded the makers …

Palin distinguishes herself as the only governor to refuse energy conservation funds. — Every single governor except Sarah Palin (R-AK) has written to Energy Secretary Steven Chu accepting millions of stimulus dollars meant to increase energy conservation and efficiency.

Dead Woman Gets Federal Stimulus Check — ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY — Millions of Americans on Social Security are receiving $250 checks as part of the president's stimulus plan — including an Anne Arundel woman who died more than 40 years ago. — The woman's son, 83-year-old James Hagner …

Obama threatens to limit US intel with UK over Guantanamo torture --Justice letter filed in court The Obama administration says it may curtail Anglo-American intelligence sharing if the British High Court discloses new details of the treatment of a former Guantanamo prisoner. A court filing from the British Foreign Office released recently includes a letter from the U.S. government, identified as the "Obama administration's communication." At issue is whether the British courts will disclose a seven-paragraph summary of the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, a former prisoner who was released from Guantanamo Bay prison in February. Mr. Mohamed says he was tortured while in U.S., Pakistani and Moroccan custody.

US to give Iran talks 'only until October' With the US President planning a policy shift on Iran, a report says he will only give the much-awaited talks five months to resolve Tehran's nuclear dispute. According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, the United States has set October as its deadline for engaging Iran in the first round of talks over the country's nuclear activities.

Five convicted in Sears Tower blast plot A US jury Tuesday convicted five of six alleged members of a homegrown terrorist group of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago, a judicial source told AFP. The verdict was handed down after six days of deliberations of charges that the group sought to contact 'al-Qaeda' and plot a series of attacks, including blowing up the Sears Tower in Chicago and FBI buildings, to bring down the US government.