Cote d'Ivoire standoff deepens: World Bank stops loans to West African nation as disputed president insists on asserting his leadership.
WikiLeaks Joins Forces With Lebedev's Moscow-Based Newspaper Novaya Gazeta: Novaya Gazeta, the Moscow newspaper controlled by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and billionaire Alexander Lebedev, said it agreed to join forces with WikiLeaks to expose corruption in Russia.
Argentina to sentence ex-leader: Charges concern Videla's role in the murder of at least 31 political prisoners during the 1970s' Dirty War.
Mass kidnapping of migrants alleged in Mexico: El Salvador's foreign ministry said that around 50 immigrants of various nationalities, mostly women, had been kidnapped during the attack in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, also citing interviews with witnesses.
Judge orders feds to pay $2.5M in wiretapping case: U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker said the attorneys for the Ashland, Ore., chapter of the now-defunct Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation should receive $2.5 million for waging its nearly five-year legal challenge to the Bush administration's so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program.
Government liabilities rose $2 trillion in FY 2010: Treasury: The Financial Report of the United States, which applies corporate-style accrual accounting methods to Washington, showed the government's liabilities exceeded assets by $13.473 trillion. That compared with a $11.456 trillion gap a year earlier.
Banks accused of illegally looting homes: 'When a burglar goes in, they don't take your photos and your husband's ashes,' says alleged victim of wrongful foreclosure
11 Ways Bank of America Practices Hurt Americans: Today's front page New York Times story about Bank of America illegally breaking into people's homes and taking their possessions is a painful reminder that many American families are spending the holiday season desperately trying to save their homes.
51 million, mostly lower-income, will do worse under new tax law: The federal tax bill passed by Congress yesterday includes some extras for the middle class and lots of goodies for the wealthy. But individuals making less than $20,000 and households making less than $40,000 a year will actually get less tax relief in 2011 than they got in 2010 and 2009.
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