NBC News Dallas: Cuts to the reimbursements given to doctors who treat patients covered by the state’s low-income health care program are raising fears that already declining physician participation will fall even further, according to a published report. The health care and insurance industries fear that a 1 percent cut in Medicaid fees scheduled to [...]
Obama, Reid The Hill: Senate Democrats will be racing against the clock and calendar this week when they return to Washington for a four-week legislative sprint. The majority party hopes to take up and pass a long-stalled package of unemployment insurance benefits this week, as well as the Wall Street reform conference report they’d hoped [...]
New York Times: FRANKFURT — The sovereign debt crisis would seem to create worry enough for European banks, but there is another gathering threat that has not garnered as much notice: the trillions of dollars in short-term borrowing that institutions around the world must repay or roll over in the next two years. The European [...]
Slate: The Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance banned “un-Islamic” Western hairstyles for men earlier this week—in particular, the ponytail, a spiky gelled hairdo known locally as the “rooster,” and the infamous mullet. When did Westerners start wearing mullets? In Ancient Greece. The haircut may have originated in the Middle East, but Alan Henderson, [...]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) – BP’s stock continued to run higher Monday, rising more than 6% in early trading, after reports that the company or some of its assets may be sold off. In addition, the company indicated it is getting closer to containing the Gulf of Mexico spill. In early Monday U.S. trading, BP shares [...]
Washington Post: For environmentalists, the BP oil spill may be disproving the maxim that great tragedies produce great change. Traditionally, American environmentalism wins its biggest victories after some important piece of American environment is poisoned, exterminated or set on fire. An oil spill and a burning river in 1969 led to new anti-pollution laws in [...]
An American aid worker was killed and six members of a Pennsylvania church group were seriously wounded as twin bombers tore through crowds watching the World Cup final at a party in Uganda’s capital Monday, killing at least 74 people. Nate Henn, 25, was killed in Uganda when simultaneous explosions tore through crowds watching the [...]
Politico: The next three weeks represent Democrats’ last, best shot at getting an energy and climate change bill passed this year. In the White House and the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, it’s moment-of-truth time. People on every side of the energy debate say that Reid must unveil a concrete plan backed by [...]
The Hill: An argument between a lawmaker and an audience member at a district town hall meeting this weekend created a scene reminiscent of August’s recess. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas) got into a heated dispute with an attendee who suggested he was not telling the truth about the Democrats’ healthcare reform legislation. In a video [...]
New York Times: WARSAK, Pakistan — The recent graduation ceremony here for Pakistani troops trained by Americans to fight the Taliban and Al Qaeda was intended as show of fresh cooperation between the Pakistani and American militaries. But it said as much about its limitations. Nearly 250 Pakistani paramilitary troops in khaki uniforms and green [...]
Washington Times: Researchers have long known that the Internet has contributed to pornography addiction by making it so easily accessible — no need to go out in a raincoat, pull a hat down over the face, and sneak furtively into the red-light district. But that ease of access also has leveled the playing field between [...]
Fox News: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday said that a border-state governors conference canceled following objections from Mexican officials is the latest sign that Arizona’s immigration law is hurting U.S. foreign policy. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer canceled the conference, set for September in Phoenix, last month after all six Mexican border governors threatened [...]
Guardian: Roman Polanski, the film director who has been under house arrest in Switzerland for the past nine months, has been declared a free man after officials decided not to extradite him to the United States. The Swiss justice ministry said it had decided against handing the fugitive director to the US, where he is [...]
