SPB News for Saturday.

Sen. Kennedy Gets $2M Advance For Memoir

Taxpayers Have Reaped 7.5% Return On Citi Investment

3 Guantanamo detainees sent to Saudi Arabia U.S. officials say three Guantanamo Bay prisoners have been sent home to Saudi Arabia. The Justice Department say the trio will be subject to judicial review in Saudi Arabia before they participate in a rehabilitation program administered by the Saudi government. With the latest transfer, the U.S. has removed 10 prisoners from Guantanamo in the past week... That leaves 229 prisoners still at the U.S. military detention center in Cuba.

DoD awarded development money and contracts for flu vaccine --Swine flu declaration will speed work on vaccine One immediate effect of the declaration of an H1N1 flu pandemic will be to speed the production of a vaccine with the new virus, but it will be fall at the earliest before the first doses are available. Kathleen Sebelius, the new secretary of Health and Human Services, said May 22 that the department would devote nearly $1 billion toward vaccine development and manufacturing. The Department of Defense has also awarded development money and contracts for vaccine.

Feds give SFO $15 million for security project San Francisco International Airport got first dibs on federal stimulus money aimed at airport safety Thursday when Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano flew into town to announce that $15 million will go to build a new baggage system with advanced explosive-detection abilities.

Japan Probes Report Two Seized With $134 Billion In U.S. Bonds Japan is investigating reports two of its citizens were detained in Italy after allegedly attempting to take $134 billion worth of U.S. bonds over the border into Switzerland. The Asahi newspaper reported today Italian police found bond certificates concealed in the bottom of luggage the two individuals were carrying on a train that stopped in Chiasso, near the Swiss border, on June 3.

US ‘kept Guantanamo deal from UK’ — The US made a secret deal with Bermuda - a British overseas territory - to accept the Uighur detainees — A senior US official has told the BBC Washington decided not to tell London ahead of time about a deal to resettle four Guantanamo detainees in Bermuda.

Former President GHW Bush stands up for Sotomayor — (CNN)-Former President George H.W. Bush stood up for his former judicial nominee Sonia Sotomayor Friday, telling CNN Anchor Robin Meade that GOP critics who called President Obama's Supreme Court pick a racist were off-base, and unfair.