Author: By Steve Holland, Reuters
Obama concentrated on the healthcare debate in his weekly radio and Web
address at the end of a week dominated by foreign policy challenges in Iran
and Afghanistan and a quick trip he made to Copenhagen in a losing effort to
get the 2016 Summer Olympics for his adopted hometown, Chicago.
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Author: By David Usborne, US Editor
But even as the first hints began to surface that the White House could consider dropping its insistence that a new healthcare system includes some kind of public entity offering insurance to consumers, the liberal wing of his party was rising up yesterday to denounce any such retreat.
Author: By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
In a unanimous ruling the five members of the state’s highest court rejected Mr Coleman’s appeal that a previous lower court ruling be overturned. A few hours later he acknowledged the inevitable. “The Supreme Court has made its decision and I will abide by the results,” he said. “Sure I wanted to win and I thought we had a better case, but the court has spoken.”
