Politico: Supporters and opponents of health reform continue to duke it out ahead of next week’s expected final House vote, but both sides are already laying the groundwork to effectively implement reform should it pass. Families USA executive director Ron Pollack has chartered a non-profit group, tentatively named Enroll America, that would create a major, [...]
The Hill: House Democratic leaders don’t have the votes to pass healthcare reform.
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s wife has been transferred out of a Virginia hospital’s intensive care unit and is improving after she was seriously injured in an accident on an interstate highway near Washington. Jon Summers, a spokesman for the senator, says Landra Reid’s condition was upgraded on Saturday to [...]
“Time to rip the band-aid off”….Reconciliation dismissed as not a concern to voters, just “inside baseball”… Politico: The advice went out to freshman and sophomore House Democrats, blunt talk to help them through a tricky vote on health reform. “At this point, we have to just rip the band-aid off and have a vote — [...]
Fox News: A GOP lawmaker says that the White House committed a “crime” if it offered Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak a federal job in exchange for dropping his primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa. “That would be a crime to offer anybody a federal job,” Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) – A coalition led by Iraq’s prime minister held a comfortable lead Saturday in the crucial contest for the nation’s capital, bolstering his chances in an election deciding who will lead the country as U.S. forces go home. The province that includes Baghdad accounts for almost a fifth of parliament’s 325 seats and [...]
VATICAN CITY (AP) – The Vatican on Saturday denounced what it called aggressive attempts to drag Pope Benedict XVI into the spreading scandals of pedophile priests in his German homeland. It also insisted that church confidentiality doesn’t prevent bishops from reporting abuse to police. The Vatican’s campaign to defend the pope’s reputation and resolve in [...]
CAIRO (AP) – Muslims attacked a community center and burned several homes belonging to Coptic Christians in northwestern Egypt over the weekend, injuring 23 people, in a rampage that a local bishop said was incited by a radical Muslim preacher. The rioting began Friday when a group of young men hurled rocks at the church [...]
Times Online: The Afghan president has backed down and agreed to include two foreigners on the elections’ watchdog panel, after concerns were raised over corruption. Hamid Karzai has reversed a decree which allowed him to appoint all five members of the Electoral Complaints Commission. Afghanistan’s ECC was responsible for stripping a third of Karzai’s votes [...]
AP News Alert: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) – Afghan president’s half-brother says four suicide attackers kill at least 30 in Kandahar. Easrlier story: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) – Four suicide bombers struck different parts of the dangerous southern city of Kandahar in attacks Saturday evening that collapsed buildings and caused casualties, officials said. The explosions occurred near [...]
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran says it has dismantled several U.S.-backed cyber warfare networks that were gathering information on nuclear scientists and provoking unrest in the country. A judiciary statement says the networks were set up by Iranian opposition groups, including the armed People’s Mujahedeen, and that 30 of their members were arrested. Iran has [...]
SAN’A, Yemen (AP) – An American al-Qaida suspect detained in Yemen fooled his hospital guards into unshackling him by asking to join them for prayers, security officials said Saturday. He then killed a guard who laid down his weapons as he went ahead at prayer time. The new details of Sharif Mobley’s failed escape attempt, [...]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Porn Web sites can’t park themselves at a “.xxx” address quite yet.
