- Roger Ebert dead at 70 after battle with cancer
- A Critic for the Common Man NYT
- Roger Ebert's most memorable quotes on life, death, and the movies
- I do not fear death—"I will pass away sooner than most people who read this, but that doesn't shake my sense of wonder and joy." Salon
- Friends reunited
North Korea
- U.S. reducing rhetoric that feeds North Korean belligerence
- UK: North Korea missile reach shows need for Trident nuclear deterrent – PM
- Map: This is how far those North Korean missiles can actually reach
- S. Korean official predicted N. Korea urging embassy evacuations, said attack would follow
- China 'shifts position' on North Korea—"There are clear signs that China is losing patience with North Korea, America's former top diplomat in Asia has said."
- Who really killed bin Laden?
- Omission Accomplished: President Bush Hopes to Use Library to Rewrite History
- Camp Nama: British personnel reveal horrors of secret US base in Baghdad—"Detainees captured by SAS and SBS squads subjected to human-rights abuses at detention centre, say British witnesses."
- Officer who oversaw destruction of CIA torture evidence might get major promotion
- Pentagon ponders Gitmo overhaul amid growing detainee unrest
- Guantanamo hunger strike stems from frustration: U.S. general
- Guantanamo hunger strikers 'denied water'
- The fun-filled ocean resort at Guantánamo Bay—"A growing hunger strike among detainees is mocked by gullible journalists spouting familiar Potemkin Village propaganda."
- Frankie Boyle donates £50,000 to help Guantanamo inmate sue MI6—"The comic uses his libel victory cash to fund landmark legal bid."
- U.N. rights chief calls for closure of Guantanamo prison
- Kuwait Parliament Approves Death Penalty for Insulting God—What's to stop someone framing another person of this "crime"?
- Pakistani youth 'prefer Sharia to democracy'—And by all means keep it in Pakistan.
- The LEGO Group's reaction to criticism of LEGO Star Wars product: 'Jabba's Palace'—"The Austrian Turkish Cultural Community has criticized a LEGO Star Wars product for looking similar to a mosque in Istanbul. The product is however not based on any real building but on a fictional building from a scene in the movie Star Wars Episode VI."
- Stewart: Veterans Administration's Backlog of 900,000 Claims is 'F***ing Criminal'
- No Wonder Why Claims With Veterans Affairs Take Several Hundred Days to Process
- Veterans Disability Claims Backlog, Setting the Record Straight
- DOD Inspector General finds $900 million stockpile of Stryker parts
- Prison looms over $32M Army Corps bid-rigging scam
- British businessman 'sold golf ball finders as bogus bomb detectors'
- Marine claims humiliation by Sky Harbor TSA agents—"A group of disabled Marines was flying home to California after a week at Spring Training games in the Valley when they say they were mistreated by TSA agents."
- TSA agent 'plays around' with pepper spray, shoots other screeners
- Problems with the TSA
