Short Takes

The U.S. launches a major assault on the Taliban in Afghanistan.

California is still broke.

They were warned -- An investigator for the SEC warned his office about Bernie Madoff in 2004.

India decriminalizes consensual gay sex. Namaste.

Where there's a will... there's a custody battle.

A python killed a two-year-old child in her crib.

R.I.P. Harve Presnell.

Tigers lose to Oakland.