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• The nine Supreme Court justices and more than three dozen other people have kept quiet for more than two months about how the high court will rule on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
• This is information that could move markets, turn economies and greatly affect this fall's national elections, including the presidential contest between Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. But unlike the Congress and the executive branch, the Supreme Court appears to truly value silence when it comes to upcoming court opinions.
• No one talks, and that's the way they like it.
• Contrast this with the rest of the government, which couldn't keep secret Obama's role in supervising an unprecedented U.S. cyberattack on Iran's nuclear facilities or the existence of a double agent inside al-Qaida's Yemen branch who tipped the U.S. to a new design for a bomb to put on a jetliner.
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Report: Turkey calls for NATO meeting over downing of plane by Syria in international airspace
• ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- State television says Turkey has called for an extraordinary NATO meeting over the downing of its plane by Syria in international airspace.
• TRT television reported Sunday that Turkey has sought the NATO meeting for Tuesday.
• Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told State TV that Turkey would seek the meeting over article 4 of the NATO charter concerning Friday's incident.
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