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Averting a custody battle, the two sides reached an agreement: while Katherine Jackson will remain the guardian of the three children, who have been living in her Encino, Calif., home since Jackson's death, the statement says that Rowe will "exercise" visitation rights for her biological children Prince Michael, 12, and Paris Michael, 11. The mother of Jackson's third child, 7-year-old Prince Michael II (a.k.a. Blanket), is unknown. (See pictures of Michael Jackson's family...
...interview, Obama noted correctly that there is broad agreement about how to fix the inequities and inefficiencies of the current system: new insurance rules to make certain that people won't lose their coverage if they get sick; a marketplace or "exchange" where small businesses and those without coverage could purchase what suits them best; research that would show which treatments were effective and which were wasteful; a payment system that would give health-care providers incentives to focus on the quality rather than the quantity of care. And Obama has laid down a marker that any bill that passes...
...second area where we still haven't arrived at agreement had to do with the public option, and we've already started to discuss that. There is just a - not only an ideological suspicion of the public option on the part of many Republicans, but many of them also saw it as an opportunity to try to resurrect the old scare tactic of government-run health care, socialized medicine, eliminating your ability to choose your own doctor. That was going to exist regardless of whatever tactics we employed...
...Although Iraq has repeatedly said it is in its own national interest to remove the group, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in late February, left little doubt as to what he expected the Iraqis to do. "We await the implementation of our agreement regarding the expulsion of the hypocrites," he was quoted as saying...
...each week - aim to protect domestic workers better by providing opportunities to build support amongst friends and ensure proper payment. This is not the first time where tensions have boiled between the two neighboring states over migrant abuse, but this time, they hope to reach a full agreement by early August...