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| Two new bird flu cases in China amid poultry crackdown Saturday, Apr 06, 2013 10:08 AM PDT  By Adam Jourdan SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Two more people have contracted bird flu in Shanghai, China's health ministry said on Saturday, as authorities closed live poultry markets and culled birds to combat a new virus strain that has killed six people. State-run Xinhua news agency said authorities planned to slaughter birds at two live poultry markets in Shanghai and another in Hangzhou after new samples of the H7N9 virus were detected in birds at the three sites. More than 20,000 birds have been culled at another Shanghai market where traces of the virus were found this week. ... Full Story | Top |
| Kansas set to enact sweeping anti-abortion law Saturday, Apr 06, 2013 08:27 AM PDT  By Kevin Murphy KANSAS CITY, Kansas (Reuters) - Kansas lawmakers sent the governor a sweeping anti-abortion bill that bans Planned Parenthood from providing sex education materials in schools and defines life as beginning at conception. The 70-page bill passed 90-30 in the Kansas House of Representatives late on Friday night after easily clearing the Senate earlier in the day. Governor Sam Brownback, a Republican strongly against abortion, was expected to sign it. Opponents of the measure say it contains numerous provisions that limit a woman's right to an abortion. ... Full Story | Top |
| South Africa's Mandela leaves hospital after pneumonia Saturday, Apr 06, 2013 07:14 AM PDT  By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela left hospital on Saturday after more than a week of treatment of pneumonia that raised global concern about the health of the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader. "(He) has been discharged from hospital today ... following a sustained and gradual improvement in his general condition," the South African presidency said in a statement. A military ambulance pulled into Mandela's spacious Johannesburg home before the statement was released. ... Full Story | Top |
| California prisons still too crowded, judge rules Friday, Apr 05, 2013 06:20 PM PDT  By Sharon Bernstein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal judge has rebuffed California Governor Jerry Brown's effort to undo a court order requiring the state to reduce its prison population, saying he did not trust officials to improve conditions for inmates. Brown, a Democrat, is under political pressure to scale back a program under which state prisoners are sent to local jurisdictions to ease crowding. That move has led to the early release of thousands of non-violent offenders from lower-level county jails as municipalities struggle to make room for them. ... Full Story | Top |
| White House fights Catholic Church subpoena on birth control Friday, Apr 05, 2013 05:15 PM PDT  By David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has gone to court to try to block a subpoena from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York seeking White House documents about the government's requirement of insurance coverage for birth control. The subpoena requesting documents from President Barack Obama and his senior advisers would be burdensome to fulfill, the administration said in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Citing U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama seeks to hike veterans' funding despite budget pressure Friday, Apr 05, 2013 05:13 PM PDT  By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will request a 4 percent increase in discretionary spending next year for the Department of Veterans Affairs, a move officials said on Friday demonstrated his commitment to veterans and their families despite intense fiscal pressure. Obama will also seek to make permanent two tax cuts for businesses that hire veterans, an effort meant partly to help drive down unemployment among former service members from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Their jobless rate has been higher than the national average. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. judge widens 'morning-after' pill access for young girls Friday, Apr 05, 2013 03:20 PM PDT By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to make "morning-after" emergency contraception pills available without a prescription to all girls of reproductive age and criticized the Obama administration for interfering with the process for political purposes. The ruling in a Brooklyn court is the latest step in the years-long legal saga over the pill known as "Plan B," a drug that has also sparked political and religious battles. ... Full Story | Top |
| Obama tries to woo Republicans with cuts in budget Friday, Apr 05, 2013 02:59 PM PDT  By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will offer cuts to Social Security and other benefit programs in a budget proposal next week aimed at winning over enough congressional Republicans to pass a broad deal to reduce the deficit. While Obama's previous budgets have largely been ignored in Congress, the White House wants to use this year's proposal, to be released on Wednesday, to move beyond the fiscal fights that have consumed Washington since 2010. ... Full Story | Top |
| Twelve school football players die each year: study Friday, Apr 05, 2013 02:00 PM PDT By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Each year in the U.S. an average of a dozen high school and college football players die during practices and games, according to a new study that finds heart conditions, heat and other non-traumatic causes of death are twice as common as injury-related ones. Researchers reviewed data from the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research and found 243 football deaths recorded between July 1990 and June 2010. ... Full Story | Top |
| U.S. issues advisory to doctors to help identify bird flu Friday, Apr 05, 2013 01:26 PM PDT  By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday it has issued an advisory to U.S. doctors that may help them identify any cases of the new bird flu virus known as H7N9, but stressed that no cases have been found in the United States. So far, the new strain of bird flu that has infected 16 people in China and killed six has not been shown to be capable of transmission from person to person, CDC's Dr. Thomas Frieden told reporters on a teleconference. ... Full Story | Top |
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