LITTLE ROCK — Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., delivering his party's weekly radio address, faulted President Barack Obama's health-care agenda, saying the president and congressional Democrats are rushing to pass "a massive overhaul that will raise [Americans'] taxes, lower their quality of care and put government between them and their doctor."
President Barack Obama
visited a soccer field in northwest Washington where his 11-year-old daughter, Malia, was playing soccer, staying on the field sidelines with other onlookers for about 30 minutes.
R. Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire accused of bilking investors of the nowdefunct Stanford Financial Group of more than $7 billion, was being treated at a hospital after being injured during a fight with another inmate at a private lockup in Conroe, Texas.
Mark Rutland, 61, the former president of Southeastern University of Lakeland, Fla., was inaugurated as the third president of Oral Roberts University, nearly two years after Oral Roberts' son resigned the presidency amid a financial scandal.
1st Lt. Ehren Watada, a Honolulu-born soldier who argued that the war in Iraq is illegal and was court-martialed for refusing to deploy there with his Fort Lewis, Wash.-based unit in 2006, will be granted a discharge "under other than honorable conditions," his attorney said.
Shahin Kashanchi
of Telluride, Colo., faces charges that he helped his brother-in-law Hassan Nemazee, a wealthy Democratic fundraiser, cheat banks out of hundreds of millions of dollars, federal prosecutors said.
Charles E. Bennison Jr ., a defrocked Pennsylvania bishop, who argued that recently discovered letters contradict witness testimony, lost his bid for a new Episcopal Church trial in his case in which he was accused of covering up his brother's sexual assaults of a teenage girl in the 1970s.
Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Egypt's foreign minister, speaking on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, urged Israel to release 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Cpl. Gilad Schalit, an Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hamas-allied militants in 2006.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Republican governor of California, was cleared by the state's ethics enforcement agency in its review of a complaint over a consulting contract he reached with a muscle magazine publisher days before he took office in 2003.
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