Friday, April 22, 2011

Tunisian court drops case at heart of protests

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) -- A Tunisian court dropped charges Tuesday against a policewoman whose dispute with a fruit vendor who killed himself sparked a chain of events that unleashed uprisings around the Arab world.

The state news agency TAP says the case against Fedia Hamdi was closed after the vendor's family withdrew its original complaint. The family says it acted in a gesture of tolerance and an effort to heal wounds suffered in Tunisia's upheaval of recent months.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

New climate change case headed to Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration and environmental interests generally agree that global warming is a threat that must be dealt with.

But they're on opposite sides of a Supreme Court case over the ability of states and groups such as the Audubon Society that want to sue large electric utilities and force power plants in 20 states to cut their emissions.

The administration is siding with American Electric Power Co. and three other companies in urging the high court to throw out the lawsuit on grounds the Environmental Protection Agency, not a federal court, is the proper authority to make rules about climate change. The justices will hear arguments in the case Tuesday.

Friday, April 8, 2011

A Consumer's Guidebook to Health Care Modernise

The six-month anniversary age 26 on your health plan if he or she can't get coverage through a job. New policies can't deny coverage for children capable age 19 based on pre-existing medical circumstances. "Grandfathered" plans can, even so, they as well can fix yearly dollar circumscribes on coverage and call for patients to aid invite a few cautionary avails.

Nearly people in the private market are awaited to move to recently plans by 2014. Analysts tell nearly plans in the group market will likely have suffered their "grandfathered" condition because of modifies prepared to it.