By Kara Rowland The same Supreme Court justices whom President Obama blasted during his State of the Union address this year may ultimately decide the fate of his crowning achievement as more than a dozen states have called on the courts to strike down the health insurance mandate of Democrats’ health care overhaul –... 

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Governor Jim Gibbons is considering his options to move forward with legal action over the new federal health care law. Gov. Gibbons released the statement following Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto’s decision not to pursue litigation. “I am disappointed the Attorney General has refused to fight for the rights... 

Caroline Hunter, a Bush-appointed Federal Election Commissioner who remains in office, provided misleading statements under oath in an effort to conceal Republican National Committee involvement in vote suppression activities during the 2004 presidential election, a Raw Story investigation has found. Legal experts say Hunter’s... 

Failing US financial institutions must face the credible threat of government closure if reforms are to succeed, a key adviser to President Barack Obama said Tuesday. Paul Volcker, a former Federal Reserve chairman, said reforms being discussed by Congress hit on the “essential elements” of financial reform, but... 

U.S. private employers shed 23,000 jobs in March, missing expectations for an increase in jobs although fewer than the adjusted 24,000 jobs lost in February, a report by a private employment service said on Wednesday. The February fall was originally reported at 20,000. The median of estimates from 35 economists surveyed by... 

Some people in New York are wondering whether the presence of police officers toting machine guns through the city’s subway tunnels is really a necessary response to the subway bombings in Moscow on Monday. “I think it’s ridiculous,” Torey Deprisest, a tourist from Ohio, told the New York Post. “The... 

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By Sasha Issenberg AMES, Iowa — Mitt Romney offered an enthusiastic defense last night of the comprehensive health care law he helped create four years ago in Massachusetts, even as he pointed to crucial distinctions between it and a similar national program enacted last week by Democrats. “Overall, ours is a model that... 

MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) – Two suicide bombers including one impersonating a police officer killed 12 people in southern Russia on Wednesday, two days after deadly suicide bombings blamed on the region’s militants tore through the Moscow subway system. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday’s blasts in... 

MOSCOW – The old Vladimir Putin is back, confronting a terrorist attack in Moscow by using the same kind of coarse and colorful language that helped him win the presidency a decade ago. A day after twin suicide bombings in the subway that killed 39 people, the powerful prime minister told Russians that he is certain the masterminds... 

For many decades, U.S. government securities have been the epitome of safe, dull investments. If you wanted to be absolutely positive you’d get your money back and then some, Treasury bills were the way to go. Right now, lots of Americans who put their money into big mortgages or stocks a decade ago wish they had gone... 

By Andrew W. Griffin OKLAHOMA CITY – Late last week, Red Dirt Report featured a story about reports indicating that there was somewhat of a resurgence in Ku Klux Klan membership in Oklahoma. That story, which was among the most-viewed stories on the site this past week, triggered some discussion online, on the radio and with... 

By Andrew Steele Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center was asked to join yet another on-air discussion this week, this time with CNN, which continues the sound the panic alarm against informed Americans the same way the mainstream media did against Islamic people after 9/11. The Southern Poverty Law Center is an organization... 

DETROIT, Mich. (CBS/AP) The leader of the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia, Michael Lackomar, is distancing his organization from Hutaree, the Christian militia group that was the focus of multiple raids by the FBI Saturday, saying they are neither Christian nor a militia. Despite multiple quotes from the bible on a website... 

The sweeping reform of the US health-care system could exact a high price on some businesses and deprive two million Americans of health insurance, industry and union leaders say. President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a final, adjusted version of the health care reform bill into law, capping a historic overhaul that extends... 

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama wants Israel to freeze construction in East Jerusalem for four months in exchange for an attempt to renew stalled Israeli peace talks with Palestinians, an Israeli newspaper said on Wednesday. Washington hopes such a deal could persuade Palestinians to renew direct negotiations... 

By MATTHEW COLE An award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist, who disappeared last year under mysterious circumstances, has defected to the CIA and been resettled in the United States, according to people briefed on the operation by intelligence officials. The officials were said to have termed the defection of the scientist,... 

An eastern Pennsylvania hospital says it plans to stop hiring new employees who are smokers. St. Luke’s Hospital & Health Network in Bethlehem says it hopes to improve the health of its 7,000 employees and reduce health costs. Beginning May 1, all prospective employees will be screened for nicotine and will be ineligible... 

PARIS (Reuters) – Robbers tunnelled their way into the vault of a Parisian bank at the weekend and cracked almost 200 private safes, police said. The gangsters tied up the security guard at a Credit Lyonnais branch on Paris’s Avenue de l’Opera on Saturday night, before digging through a series of cellars to...