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...Insurance Exchanges Perhaps the least understood aspect of federal health reform is how private insurance would be sold on the open market if and when the legislation becomes law. Under the Senate bill, states would be responsible for creating and running new insurance marketplaces, also known as exchanges. There, individuals and small businesses would purchase private health insurance, receiving federal subsidies if they qualified. The House bill would establish a national exchange, which states could opt out of if they had the capacity to run their...
...Thursday, a BBC television program called Spotlight issued a report accusing First Minister Peter Robinson's wife Iris of breaking the law by failing to disclose her financial interest in a 2008 business deal that helped launch the café. The report alleged that Iris Robinson - then age 59 and, like her husband, a well-known politician in Northern Ireland - had obtained $80,000 from two property developers for a 19-year-old man, Kirk McCambley, with whom she had been having an affair. According to the report, the teenager allegedly used most of the money...
...Protestant parties. Peter Robinson and his Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness of the Sinn Fein party, have failed to reach an agreement over the devolution of policing and justice powers from London to Northern Ireland, despite months of negotiations. Catholic republicans have for years accused the British-run law-and-order system of having a pro-Protestant bias, while Protestant unionists have been reluctant to alter the current setup. The impasse has added to the public's frustration over a perceived lack of progress on a host of key issues. (Read "Site of IRA Hunger Strike Haunts Northern Ireland...
...Gregory McNeal, a visiting assistant law professor at Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law and a former adviser to military prosecutors at Guantánamo Bay, however, argues that the two options are not mutually exclusive. The Administration could have designated Abdulmutallab as an enemy combatant for a very short duration to allow for his interrogation, and then moved the case back to federal court, which he believes is the proper place for such a trial...
...scientific purposes, according to a Reuters report. Though their boats are emblazoned with the word "Research," much of their catch ends up on the plates of Japanese consumers, not in labs. Japan's ICR says that the income from whale-meat sales funds scientific research and that international law mandates that it not waste the meat...