GAINESVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - An obscure U.S. Christian pastor whose plan to burn copies of the Koran on September 11 has sparked an international outcry said on Wednesday he would go ahead with the event despite warnings it would endanger American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Pastor Terry ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New U.S. reforms are poised to dramatically shift the nation's healthcare spending, not only curbing Medicare costs but also pumping more money toward the private sector as roughly 32 million people gain coverage.
Although the law has little impact on overall healthcare ...
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth last month ruled that the research violated U.S. law because it involved destroying human embryos, a setback for President Barack Obama who had tried to expand research in hopes it would lead to new cures of diseases.
On Tuesday, Lamberth refused to put his ...
EAGLES MERE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - In the rush to develop America's biggest new source of domestic energy, one community is fighting to protect its rural way of life from the environmental strains that accompany shale gas drilling.
Residents of this wealthy north-central Pennsylvania vacation ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge refused on Tuesday to lift a ban on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research despite Obama administration warnings it would set back key research and cost more than a thousand jobs.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth rejected the Obama ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Families of September 11 victims are arguing whether to call a truce on the anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the United States as debate rages over plans for a Muslim center near the World Trade Center site.
The Muslim cleric leading the project reasserted on Tuesday that ...
Igor was bringing "squally" weather to the Cape Verde Islands, packing winds of 40 miles per hour as it moved west at just 6 mph. Early computer models showed the system strengthening into a hurricane in about three days as it moved west to northwest in the open Atlantic.
In addition, a ...
The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco dismissed the lawsuit against Jeppesen Dataplan Inc, finding that rules protecting state secrets made it impossible for the litigation to proceed. The U.S. Department of Justice intervened in the case on behalf of Jeppesen.
A group of ...
The study published on Friday in the journal "Health Affairs" recommended policy reforms and broader efforts to get uninsured children into government medical programs, including the use of income tax data for automatic enrollment.
An estimated 7.3 million children were uninsured on an ...
"The agreement cuts state spending, attacks the state's structural deficit, and continues reforms in government," the Democratic governor said in a statement. "These changes are essential if we are to maintain our critical investments in job-creation and education and provide the ...
