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Conservative Democrat Nelson Will Vote to Let Health Bill Proceed
Washington - Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, one of three moderate Democratic senators wavering on whether to allow debate on health care legislation to proceed, said Friday that he'd …

Obama Returns to Greater Middle East Mess
Washington - As Barack Obama arrives home from his weeklong tour of East Asia, he confronts a growing list of ever more urgent problems in the Greater Middle East …

Women’s Reproductive Health Is Not a Social Issue
Language matters, so let's be clear: Women's reproductive health is not a “social issue.” Deciding whether to carry the red purse or the black bag to dinner Saturday night? …

America’s House of Lords Debates Health Care
The health care debate has been like a tennis match, bouncing from the Senate to the House and back again. Now it's back in the Senate, as the United …

New York’s Tough Enough for Terrorist Trials
If you want to royally tick off New Yorkers, try telling us what to do. That's probably why the police stopped trying to enforce the jaywalking laws here years …

Depleted Uranium and the Medical Mismanagement of Gulf War Veterans
The United States insists that weapons containing depleted uranium (DU) pose no health hazards to exposed populations. This charade persists because an artful propaganda matrix has infiltrated and corrupted …

Iraq War Veteran on a Mental-Health Mission
Chuck Luther, who served 12 years in the military, is a veteran of two deployments to Iraq, where he was a reconnaissance scout in the 1st Cavalry Division. The …

Venezuela Blows Up Two Bridges Along Colombia Border
Venezuelan forces destroyed two pedestrian bridges that spanned the border with Colombia, further heightening tensions between the two countries that have been at odds since Colombia agreed to allow …

Robert Reich | Harry Reid, and What Happened to the Public Option
First there was Medicare for all 300 million of us. But that was a non-starter because private insurers and Big Pharma wouldn't hear of it, and Republicans and “centrists” …

Protests Don’t Stop UC Regents’ 32 Percent Fee Hike
Surrounded by campus police dressed in protective riot gear and armed with beanbag guns, hundreds of student protesters at UCLA Thursday chanted “Shame on You, Shame on You” toward …