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Obama Administration lawyers are likely still scratching their heads over how to respond to an extraordinary ruling in San Francisco. Last week, the chief judge of one of America's most prominent federal courts ordered an Executive Branch agency to stop interfering with a court employee's efforts to secure health insurance coverage for her wife...
...battalion's foot patrols, on the road between the Helmand villages of Bagrabat and Hazarapas. "My men were walking on the road," he told Haji Assidullah and his fellow elder Jon Mohammed. "The car with these men [the detainees] sped up, drove right at them, didn't stop, almost hit two of my men, then the car behind that one stopped. Three men got out and started firing at my men. Two others on the side of the road with RPGs didn't get them off in time, because we fired at them...
...year-old former economist, who in May was sworn in for his second term as leader of the world's second most populous country and its largest democracy. Singh's visit comes on the heels of Obama's first visit to Asia - a trip that did not include a stop in India. The leaders are expected to discuss climate change, the war in Afghanistan and both nations' relationship with Pakistan, India's rival and neighbor. (See pictures of India's history...
...which he pokes fun at "porno-land vs. reality. In porno-land, pizza delivery is a great job." The erotica show may draw the crowds, but there's no danger that Britain will ever be the natural home of eroticism. There's also no danger that Brits will ever stop finding sex a hoot...
...most controversial name raised in the report is that of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a moderate on the BJP spectrum who, while not directly implicated in the attack, was found by Liberhan to have been aware of the demolition and to have done little to stop it. The almost 1,000-page report comes at a particularly inopportune time for the BJP, whose leadership is increasingly fractured and subject to internal power struggles. As it seeks to rebrand itself for a younger electorate that sees communal politics as a thing of the past, the BJP is struggling...