Yahoo News | With the U.S. facing annual deficits of $1 trillion (or more) for the next decade, the recent sell-off in the bond market could be cause for alarm. Are foreigners finally calling Ben Bernanke's bluff? Is America the 'new Greece'? Have the deficit chickens finally come home to roost?

AP | In a repudiation of the Bush administration's now-defunct terrorist surveillance effort, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that government investigators illegally wiretapped the phone conversations of an Islamic charity and two American lawyers without a search warrant.