Celebrity website TMZ has posted racy Scotty Lago pictures, causing trouble for the snowboarder, who had just won bronze Wednesday night – and was hoping for a White House invite.
The debacle in Turin turned many Americans against Bode Miller, despite his historic success in alpine skiing. Winning silver in the men's super-G Friday – along with his earlier downhill bronze – has given Americans a better measure of the skier.
AP - Justice Department lawyers showed "poor judgment" but did not commit professional misconduct when they authorized CIA interrogators to use waterboarding and other harsh tactics at the height of the U.S. war on terrorism, an internal review released Friday found.
AP - The FBI sought to close the book on its long, frustrating hunt for the killer behind the 2001 anthrax letters Friday, formally ending its investigation and concluding a mentally unhinged scientist was responsible for killing five people and unnerving Americans nationwide.
AP - Missing his smile and aura of invincibility, Tiger Woods finally showed his face to a waiting world Friday and apologized again for cheating on his wife, without revealing the scope of his infidelity or when he will return to golf.
A younger brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani, one of the strongest Afghan Taliban commanders whose fighters concentrate on Kabul and eastern Afghanistan, was killed when a missile fired by a CIA drone struck a car in which he was travelling, according to a Pakistani intelligence officer and a local resident. The drone strike occurred Thursday in North Waziristan, the base for the Haqqani network and for many Arab and Taliban militants who fight in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The headlines get more lurid. Friday's Israeli paper Maariv declares on its front page "Dubai Plans Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu." Thursday the head of the Dubai police investigation General Dahi Khalfan Tamim said he was almost certain Israel's intelligence organization Mossad was responsible for the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al Mabhouh. Meanwhile despite the continuing official silence over the affair in Israel analysts believe no lasting damage will be caused by the diplomatic fallout.
A Florida woman has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of a lottery millionaire whose body was found buried under fresh concrete, authorities said.
Tiger Woods apologized for his behavior today, admitting, "I had affairs. I cheated." The golf star said he would play again but only after more rehab.