- Challenge to CIA renditions dismissed
Handing a victory to the Obama administration, a sharply divided federal appeals court dismisses a lawsuit involving the CIA's secret program to imprison suspects abroad.
- Petraeus: Quran burning is like Abu Ghraib
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan tells NBC News that a Florida church's plan to burn the Quran would fuel anti-U.S. hatred rivaling the backlash against the U.S. abuses at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
- Transocean: BP probe is 'self-serving,' deceptive
Transocean Ltd., the owner of the doomed rig leased by BP, says BP's internal investigation into the explosion and Gulf oil spill covered up the critical factor leading to the tragedy: the well design.