[The Onion]
Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture? [video]

[Guardian.co.uk]
The US attorney general, Eric Holder, is poised to order a special criminal investigation into CIA agents who may have gone too far in the interrogation of al-Qaida and other suspects taken after the 9/11 attacks.

[Reuters]
A federal judge has ruled against an effort by the U.S. Federal Reserve to block disclosure of companies that participated in and securities covered by a series of emergency funding programs as the global credit crisis began to intensify.

[CNN]
The IRS has reached a deal with the Swiss government, gaining access to thousands of bank accounts that Americans might have used to avoid paying taxes.

[BBC News]
The CIA hired contractors from the US private security firm Blackwater as part of a secret program to track and kill top al-Qaeda figures.

[The Independent]
However strange it seems, the Republican Party really is spinning off into a bizarre cult who believe Barack Obama is a baby-killer plotting to build death panels for the grannies of America.