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President Barack Obama Saturday endorsed a bipartisan plan to name a special task force charged with coming up with a plan to curb the spiraling budget deficit, though the idea has lots of opposition from both his allies and rivals on Capitol Hill.

As Gov. Rick Perry spoke to a Capitol anti-abortion rally, a supporter of Republican opponent Debra Medina tried to steal some of the show.

HEADING FOR SHOWDOWN: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at an election rally in Colombo.

As much as 450,000 gallons of crude oil may have spilled in a southeast Texas port when two vessels collided Saturday morning, but it’s unclear whether that much actually leaked from the damaged tank, a U.S. Coast Guard official said.

The U.S. Marines marked the end of nearly seven years in Iraq on Saturday by handing the Army their command of Anbar province, once one of the war’s fiercest battlefields but now a centerpiece of U.S.-Iraqi cooperation.

Yet Blair authorised the September 2002 dossier, saying: “What I believe the assessed intelligence has established beyond doubt is that Saddam has continued to produce chemical and biological weapons, that he continues in his efforts to develop nuclear weapons and that he has been able to extend the range of his ballistic missile programme.” Blair …

President Barack Obama phoned Senate allies Saturday as two key senators predicted that embattled Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will be confirmed for a second term.

By DAVID ESPO and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama’s campaign to remake healthcare is barreling into the final days.Democrats, led by Obama, deployed this weekend to salvage an unpredictable Senate race in Massachusetts, while senior White House and congressional staff members in Washington hurry to finish work on …

… order to make them last longer, That’s going to keep them from staying as healthy as they should be, and lead to more health problems down the road,” said state Rep. Thomas Golden, D-Lowell. Gov. Deval Patrick in October was forced to trim hundreds …

Lowell Weicker, Jr., former three-term U.S. Senator and Governor of Connecticut and President of the Board of the Trust for America’s Health , delivered an address on health reform before The Muslim Coalition of Connecticut.

… the ban, because shops will have to be refitted after removing the displays. The move is part of the Government’s Health Bill, which was given its second reading in the Commons in June. Ministers and health campaigners insist that putting cigarettes …

PETALING JAYA: MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat will decide on his next move after the central committee meeting on Thursday and discussing with his colleagues and supporters.

Sixty years is how long Democrats say they’ve been pushing for legislation that provides health care access for all Americans.

Cuba’s Fidel Castro is the latest world leader to opine on the controversial award of the Nobel peace prize to President Barack Obama.

A Marietta husband and wife are accused of fraudulently billing health care insurers for millions of dollars in physical therapy services that were never provided.

Question mark over the SNP’s role highlights the problem with the idea as a whole 10 October 2009 17:17 There has been a fair bit of chat in recent weeks about the prospect of a televised leaders’ debate in the run-up to the next general election.

… provide people through the country with the choice of a public option,” said Richard Kirsch, campaign manager of Health Care for America Now, which advocates for a government program. “A public health insurance option needs to be: national, public …

… enjoyed serving on this board and have great respect for the way in which Oaklawn Hospital addresses not only the health-care needs of the community, but also supports causes for the betterment of the surrounding area. My involvement on the board …

… than your local grocery store, farm stand, farmers market or apple orchard. Yes, apples have been touted for good health for a long time and rightly so. One of the best health reasons, is for the fiber they contain - not one, but two types. The pale …

The fever has broken. The patient is out of intensive care. But if you’re President Barack Obama, you can’t stop pacing the waiting room.

A Sicilian court on Wednesday acquitted three Germans of charges they aided illegal immigration by picking up a boatload of African migrants stranded in the Mediterranean Sea.

Vice President Joe Biden says New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine has complete and unwavering support from the White House because “it’s critically important he be re-elected.” Biden is appearing with Corzine at an AFL-CIO conference in Atlantic City.

Susan Neiman, author of Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists , roundly rejects the notion that the more you know about life, the less you should expect of it.

Health care legislation is taking shape in the House and Senate as President Barack Obama pushes to overhaul the system to cover millions of uninsured Americans and contain rising costs.

… and nanosafety, helping the Australian manufacturing sector address major national challenges in energy, health, climate and waste.” National Research Flagships CSIRO initiated the National Research Flagships to provide science-based solutions in …

The latest health overhaul plan circulating on Capitol Hill gives health insurers, drug makers and large employers reasons to heave sighs of relief, sparing them the higher costs and more burdensome rules included in other Democratic-written alternatives.

President Barack Obama’s call for an overhaul of the nation’s health care system gained fresh momentum with the introduction of long-delayed Senate legislation to rein in spiraling medical costs and require nearly everyone to be carry health insurance.

Congressa and the presidenta s health care reform efforts are on the wrong track.

… study. About 32,000 suicides occur in the United States each year, but a new study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration indicates that many more give the idea serious thought. The new SAMHSA report is based on a survey of …

Patrick Swayze described his life as an “amazing ride” in his memoirs. Earlier this year the Dirty Dancing star wrote The Time Of My Life with his wife Lisa Niemi, describing his battle against pancreatic cancer, which he lost this week.

… 100 of her poems, to raise money for charity. Pam Pearce, Tewkesbury U3A chairman, said it Is a case of balancing the health and safety of the players with Ms Tombs’ right to play. She denied the club was discriminating against her but said the …

As former CEOs of health insurance cooperatives, we support an expanded role for health care cooperatives in helping to reform and improve our health care system.

Dalton, a squirrel monkey, had gene therapy to correct his colorblindness. The image on the left is digitally altered to simulate what the scene would look like to a person with red-green color blindness.

Black patients with high blood pressure often seem to struggle to communicate with their doctors, potentially leading to worse disease outcomes, a North Carolina study suggests.

Loading… 1 of 4 Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott explains health care reform plans during a town hall meeting in Newport News on Tuesday, Sept.

Summit County Councilman Chris Robinson, a Democrat who was elected last year to a two-year term, said he will likely seek re-election in 2010.

The announcement was made a day before six world powers were expected to hold high-level talks in Germany on what to do about Iran’s contentious nuclear program.

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With only a month left to strike a budget deal, House Speaker Andy Dillon said Tuesday that legislative leaders and the governor are still having trouble because they don’t have enough federal stimulus money to fill large deficits over two years.

… only one in five children at the school had proper parental consent to get immunized. “This school was ready to go,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius declared after touring a makeshift vaccination clinic in the cafeteria at …