The Hill: Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.) and Republican Sen. Scott Brown (Mass.) may have found a way to take the partisan venom out of the healthcare reform debate, according to some state officials and policy experts. The senators introduced legislation on Thursday that would accelerate, by three years, a little-known provision that Wyden included [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — With one of the year’s busiest traveling days fast approaching, the Obama administration’s top transportation security official on Monday urged passengers angry over safety procedures not to boycott airport body scans. John Pistole said in nationally broadcast interviews he understands public concerns about privacy in the wake of the Transportation Security Administration’s [...]
Fox News: With grueling university entrance exams finally behind them, exhausted South Korean students are now choosing their reward — plastic surgery. A number of plastic surgery hospitals have taken advantage of a recent trend by some parents to reward their children for years of hard study with plastic surgery, offering substantial discounts for eye [...]
Fox News: Newsweek’s depiction of President Obama on its latest cover has irked some Indian Americans who, fresh off Obama’s visit to the world’s largest democracy, are not happy with the image of the U.S. president as the Hindu deity, Lord Shiva. The Newsweek cover shows Obama with several arms carrying policy issues while balancing [...]
ABC News: NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. – Antonia Riggs Miernik reluctantly rolls up her left pant leg, revealing a scar that runs down her knee. When Miernik was 27 years old, she was injured in a car crash, and “basically destroyed the knee.” Now, she has a metal knee implant. One of the effects of [...]
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Fox News: After three decades of public service, retiring Senator Judd Gregg R-Nh., isn’t pulling any punches when it comes to his assessment of the economy, which he classifies as headed for an “inevitable fiscal meltdown.” Gregg, the Ranking Member on both the Senate Budget and Banking Committees, has long been recognized as an expert [...]
TV Newser: TVNewser learns that “America Live” anchor Megyn Kelly is in the 2010 GQ Men of the Year issue, which hit newsstands this week. Kelly is the only tvnewser to be selected for the 2010 media personality. Megyn Kelly GQ Men of the Year Issue The magazine says about the anchor: “Abhorred by the [...]
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: by Salena Zito The U.S.-Mexico border has become a “battlefield” in the war between rival Mexican drug cartels and a beleaguered Mexican government, according to one Texas law enforcement official. And the state’s governor, Rick Perry, says the U.S. government must do more quickly to “stabilize” the border before even more of Mexico’s [...]
