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Justices signal deep trouble for health care law

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 21:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The fate of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was cast into deeper jeopardy Tuesday as the Supreme Court's conservative justices sharply and repeatedly questioned its core requirement that virtually every American carry insurance. The court will now take up whether any remnant of the historic law can survive if that linchpin fails....
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Justices signal deep trouble for health care law

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 21:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The fate of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was cast into deeper jeopardy Tuesday as the Supreme Court's conservative justices sharply and repeatedly questioned its core requirement that virtually every American carry insurance. The court will now take up whether any remnant of the historic law can survive if that linchpin fails....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Justices signal deep trouble for health care law

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 21:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The fate of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul was cast into deeper jeopardy Tuesday as the Supreme Court's conservative justices sharply and repeatedly questioned its core requirement that virtually every American carry insurance. The court will now take up whether any remnant of the historic law can survive if that linchpin fails....
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If Microsoft co-founder's ID isn't safe, is yours?

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 21:10
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Even the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft isn't immune to identity theft, it seems....
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If Microsoft co-founder's ID isn't safe, is yours?

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 21:10
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Even the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft isn't immune to identity theft, it seems....
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If Microsoft co-founder's ID isn't safe, is yours?

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 21:10
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Even the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft isn't immune to identity theft, it seems....
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Photos will be required for SAT, ACT tests

MINEOLA, N.Y. — The millions of students who take the SAT or ACT each year will have to submit photos of themselves when they sign up for the college entrance exams, under a host of new security measures announced Tuesday in the aftermath of a major cheating scandal on Long ...

Virginia man injured in gun accident gets new face

BALTIMORE — After 15 years of wearing a mask and living as a recluse, a 37-year-old Virginia man disfigured in a gun accident got a new face, nose, teeth and jaw in what University of Maryland physicians say is the most extensive face transplant ever performed.

Richard Lee Norris of ...

Congress sends startup investment bill to Obama

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 21:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Despite warnings that less government oversight might mean more investment scams, Congress on Tuesday sent President Barack Obama legislation he endorsed making it easier for startups to raise capital without running afoul of federal regulations....
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Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly: "Lawyer settles cell phone suit against city, cops for $170K"

FourthAmendment.com - News - Tue, 2025-05-20 21:10

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly: Lawyer settles cell phone suit against city, cops for $170K by Matt:

The attorney arrested for using his cell phone to record Boston police officers during an arrest has reached a settlement with the city for $170,000.

After a judge threw out criminal charges of illegal wiretapping, aiding the escape of a prisoner, and disturbing the peace against Simon Glik, he filed a civil rights suit against the city and the arresting officers in U.S. District Court, aided by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and Boston attorneys Howard Friedman and David Milton.

The settlement follows a landmark decision last August by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that the First Amendment protects the right to record police carrying out their duties in a public place. In Glik v. Cunniffe, The 1st Circuit affirmed that an arrest for openly recording the police also violates the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee against false arrests.

Trayvon Martin's parents go to Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON — Trayvon Martin's parents went before a congressional panel and thanked those who turned their 17-year-old son's death into a rallying cry against racial profiling.

Martin's parents spoke briefly Tuesday at a Capitol Hill forum that began with a moment of silence for their son, who was shot and ...

Coroner: Vt. prep school teacher was killed

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 21:10
ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) -- The Vermont prep school teacher whose toddler was found alone in her idling SUV over the weekend was killed, a medical examiner ruled Tuesday as an autopsy confirmed a body found along an isolated stretch of road was indeed hers....
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2 dead at burned home in Colo. wildfire area

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 21:10
CONIFER, Colo. (AP) -- The bodies of a man and a woman have been found at one of 16 homes destroyed by a wildfire that has forced hundreds to flee the mountainous area southwest of Denver, authorities said Tuesday. A third person was missing from the same area where the man and woman were found....
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Passenger: Captain disrupts diverted JetBlue plane

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 21:10
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) -- The captain of a JetBlue aircraft yelled about a bomb and had to be locked out of the cockpit and restrained Tuesday as the Las Vegas-bound flight was diverted to Texas, passengers said....
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Gay-marriage foes sought to split gays and blacks

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 21:10
The leading national organization opposing same-sex marriage has sought to split the Democratic Party base by pitting African-Americans and Hispanics against gay-rights groups, according to confidential strategy memos made public by court officials in Maine....
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Ex-doc dumps abortion files in Kan. recycling bin

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 21:10
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) -- Anti-abortion lawmakers want the Kansas Legislature to investigate after a former abortion provider discarded hundreds of patients' medical records in a recycling bin outside a Kansas City-area elementary school....
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Great Lakes residents clash over water levels

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 21:10
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) -- Brian Ramler longs for the days when his marina on Lake Huron's Georgian Bay could handle 50 boats - before water levels began dropping steadily more than a decade ago. He can accommodate fewer than half as many now and wants the government to help bring the water back....
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Judge blocks importation of drug used in execution

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 21:10
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the importation of a drug used in executions on grounds the Food and Drug Administration ignored the law in allowing it into this country....
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Tighter security for SAT, ACT in wake of cheating

AP - U.S. News - Tue, 2025-05-20 21:10
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) -- The millions of students who take the SAT or ACT each year will have to submit photos of themselves when they sign up for the college entrance exams, under a host of new security measures announced Tuesday in the aftermath of a major cheating scandal on Long Island....
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Ex-doc dumps abortion files in Kan. recycling bin

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — More than 1,000 private abortion records from a defunct clinic have been found discarded in a recycling bin outside an elementary school near Kansas City, Kan., prompting a police investigation and outrage from people on both sides of the abortion debate.

The patient records found ...

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