SPB News for Tuesday

6.9-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Baja, California

Gibbs: Obama Won't Raise Taxes On Middle Class

New Corzine Ad Features Obama Endorsement In NJ

Sen. Brownback: We Don't Want Gitmo Detainees In Kansas

Report: AIG Taps Former MetLife Chief Benmosche As New CEO

Cable providers nix anti-birther ad



Deutsche Bank spy scandal widens



Jackson mom granted custody of kids

Sen. McCain to vote against Sotomayor
The Senate is expected to begin debate on Judge Sotomayor’s confirmation tomorrow [Tuesday]. More than 20 Republican Senators have expressed that they will vote against Judge Sotomayor.

New Anti-Obama ‘Joker’ Poster — A new poster depicting President Obama as a version of Heath Ledger's Joker character in The Dark Knight has appeared in Los Angeles, according to rightwing sources. Blog posters to such online sites as American Thinker and Tammy Bruce are predictably in the throes of political orgasm.

White House Cybersecurity Chief Quits — WASHINGTON — The White House's acting cybersecurity czar announced her resignation Monday, in a setback to the Obama administration's efforts to better protect the computer networks critical to national security and the global economy.

U.S. Weighs Iran Sanctions if Talks Are Rejected

Israelis arrested for laundering US tax monies Israeli police arrested seven Israeli and American citizens Monday on suspicion that they laundered tens of millions of dollars in U.S. tax dollars to Israeli bank accounts. According to the charges, the men forged tax documents in order to steal money intended for U.S. federal prisoners and transferred them to bank accounts in Israel.


Barack Obama faces 30 death threats a day, stretching US Secret Service US President Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched and under-resourced Secret Service, according to a new book. Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President [sic] George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President's Secret Service. Some threats to Mr Obama have been publicised, including an alleged plot by white supremacists in Tennessee late last year to rob a gun store, shoot 88 black people, decapitate another 14 and then assassinate the first black president in American history.

US asks Iran to help locate missing Americans US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed concern over the case of the three missing Americans near the Iran border and called for their quick return. Three US nationals were reportedly arrested on Friday after crossing into Iran via Iraq's northern Kurdistan region. She added that Washington had asked the Swiss Ambassador who represents US interests in Iran to help determine the status of the three.


Leader endorses President Ahmadinejad Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has endorsed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his second term in office. Ahmadinejad was declared the victor of the June 12 election with almost two-thirds of the vote.


Banks defend bonus culture as profits jump Barclays and HSBC made a passionate defence of the City's bonus culture yamid a growing public backlash about the return to a big pay bonanza barely a year after the government bailed out the financial system. As criticism of bonuses crossed the traditional political divide, the banks compared their high-flyers to footballers and Hollywood stars to try to explain the need for the hundreds of thousands of pounds individuals are expected to receive this year.

Half of all the fruit and veg you buy is contaminated Almost half of the fresh fruit and veg sold across the UK is contaminated with toxic pesticides, according to the latest scientific surveys for the government. Nearly every orange, 94% of pineapples and 90% of pears sampled were laced with traces of chemicals used to kill bugs. High proportions of apples, grapes and tomatoes were also tainted, as were parsnips, melons and cucumbers. Alarmingly, as much as a quarter of the food on sale in 2008 - the date of the latest figures - was found to contain multiple pesticides.
Bill Clinton in North Korea to Seek Release of US Reporters
WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton went to North Korea on Monday to negotiate the release of two American television journalists who were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor for illegally entering North Korean ...