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What prompted the Senate Majority leader's drive to push for an "opt-out" public option plan? Labor unions want at least that much

Harry Reid, the US Democratic Senate leader, announces that the impending Senate bill will give states the ability to opt out of the federal public option if they did not agree with it

Health care legislation heading for the Senate floor will give millions of Americans the option of purchasing government-run insurance coverage, Majority Leader Harry Reid announces.

Strict conservation, new dams and a peripheral canal are all on the table after six weeks of closed-door negotiations to solve the state's water crisis and restore the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta ecosystem. Leaders in the state Senate and Assembly are...

Same religious leader proclaimed Jews could not wear Crocs shoes on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, because they were deemed too comfortable

For more than 14 years Zumra Sehomirovic has waited for justice for the murder of her son and husband. So at the crack of dawn in Sarajevo on Sunday, the Muslim widow from the east Bosnian hill town of Srebrenica boarded a bus and travelled 1,200 miles for 26 hours through six countries to get to an old office building in The Hague to see Radovan Karadzic in the dock.But not for the first time, the 64-year-old former Bosnian Serb leader got the better of his victims. 'I note that the accused, Mr Karadzic, is not present,' announced Judge O-Gon Kwon of South Korea, just after 9am as he opened case IT-95-5/18 at the UN's Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.The dock was empty. The judge's laconic remark signalled a Karadzic boycott.'I'm totally shocked. This looks like deliberate politics. How can he get away with this? When you're a criminal like that, you've got to face your punishment,' said Sehomirovic, who lost her husband, Omer, and her son, Samir, when Karadzic's Serbian forces overran wh

For more than 14 years Zumra Sehomirovic has waited for justice for the murder of her son and husband. So at the crack of dawn in Sarajevo on Sunday, the Muslim widow from the east Bosnian hill town of Srebrenica boarded a bus and travelled 1,200 miles for 26 hours through six countries to get to an old office building in The Hague to see Radovan Karadzic in the dock.But not for the first time, the 64-year-old former Bosnian Serb leader got the better of his victims. 'I note that the accused, Mr Karadzic, is not present,' announced Judge O-Gon Kwon of South Korea, just after 9am as he opened case IT-95-5/18 at the UN's Yugoslav war crimes tribunal.The dock was empty. The judge's laconic remark signalled a Karadzic boycott.'I'm totally shocked. This looks like deliberate politics. How can he get away with this? When you're a criminal like that, you've got to face your punishment,' said Sehomirovic, who lost her husband, Omer, and her son, Samir, when Karadzic's Serbian forces overran wh

Afghan leader Hamid Karzai rejects calls by his presidential rival to sack the chief of the country's election commission.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the Senate's merged health care bill will include a government-sponsored program in the insurance market. But it remains unclear whether Reid has locked in the 60 votes needed to guarantee passage of a final bill with a public option.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic leader Harry Reid said on Monday the U.S. Senate's healthcare overhaul will include a government-run insurance plan that lets states opt out, handing liberals an early victory on the bill's most contentious issue.