SPB News for Friday

Renovated Carter Museum Reopens Today -- His Birthday

BoA CEO: $53M retirement score

US promises deeper ties with China

Sanford Asks SC Supreme Court To Block Release Of Ethics Report

Senior Obama NSC Aide Quits To Return To Active Duty

Ally Of Fired UN Diplomat Resigns From Afghanistan Mission

Madoff Trustee Seeks $7.2B From Florida Investor

Bernanke Suggests Board Of Regulators In Testimony To Congress

Letterman Says Someone's Extorting Him

Senator's Aid to Mistress's Husband Raises Ethics Flags — WASHINGTON — Early last year, Senator John Ensign contacted a small circle of political and corporate supporters back home in Nevada — a casino designer, an airline executive, the head of a utility and several political consultants …

Lawmakers ban transfer of Guantanamo detainees to US The US House of Representatives have voted to ban the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the US, and the release of abuse photos in Iraq and Afghanistan. The measure, sponsored by Republican Representative Harold Rogers as part of the 2010 Homeland Security Department budget, passed by a vote of 258 to 163, attracting support from nearly all the chamber's Republicans, as well as 88 Democrats.

Iran to Send Enriched Uranium to Russia Iran agreed on Thursday in talks with the United States and other major powers to open its newly revealed uranium enrichment plant near Qum to international inspection in the next two weeks and to send most of its openly declared enriched uranium to Russia to be turned into fuel for a small reactor that produces medical isotopes, senior American and other Western officials said. Iran’s agreement in principle to export most of its enriched uranium for processing -- if it happens -- would represent a major accomplishment for the West, reducing Iran’s ability to make a nuclear weapon quickly and buying more time for negotiations to bear fruit.

U.S. lawmakers vote to punish Iran's fuel suppliers As Washington and Tehran began talks over Iran's nuclear program, U.S. lawmakers approved legislation to bar foreign companies exporting gasoline to Iran from also delivering crude oil to America's emergency petroleum stockpile. Thursday's action by the U.S. House of Representatives marks the first time lawmakers imposed economic sanctions on Iran since Tehran disclosed it was building another uranium enrichment plant and U.S. and Iranian officials met in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss the country's nuclear program.