The indictment, unsealed Thursday by federal prosecutors in San Francisco, is the culmination of a four-year federal probe into whether he lied under oath to a grand jury investigating steroid use by elite athletes.

NPR: Bonds Faces Perjury Charges in Steroids Case

The probe has cast a shadow over the four-star general's distinguished military career, and delayed his appointment as Nato's next supreme allied commander, set for early 2013.

BBC: Gen John R. Allen

Back in New York, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has garnered banner headlines and much praise for his pay-to-play pension fund probe that has already led to four guilty pleas by investors and politicians.

WSJ: Pay-to-Play and the Tort Bar

The probe was built with four reaction wheels and needs three of them -- one for each axis -- to aim its telescope precisely at a distant star, deputy project manager Charlie Sobeck said.

CNN: Planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft in trouble

The U.S.-led probe into the attacks has detained 80 people for questioning and has four people under arrest as material witnesses.

CNN: Ashcroft: Terrorists likely received support from other governments