Atlanta (Georgia, US), Aug. 13: In a major blow to the Obama administration, a federal appeals court has struck down a central provision of the 2010 healthcare law, ruling that Congress has overstepped its authority by requiring virtually all Americans to obtain health insurance.

The divided three-judge panel of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta is the first appellate court to rule against any portion of the statute.

In its ruling, the panel teed up many of the arguments likely to dominate a Supreme Court review.

Atlanta, Jan 1: Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has reportedly pardoned 407 prisoners on New Year's eve.

According to Xinhua, out of the 407 prisoners who were pardoned, 339 were to leave jail on Friday to join their families and friends in time for the New Year celebration.

Presidential pardon documents were already sent to the Minister for Correction and Legal Assistance, Khatuna Kalmakhelidze, who said the other 58 prisoners would have their jail time reduced by more than half.

Athens/Nicosia, March 10 - Cypriot authorities Tuesday arrested two people, including an Indian national, for allegedly stealing the corpse of former president Tassos Papadopoulos from his grave three months ago and said the suspects had earlier demanded a ransom.

Police arrested an Indian national and a Greek Cypriot after they confessed to having removed Papadopoulos' remains from its coffin in December and placing the body in another person's grave.

Justice Minister Loucas Louca said the motive behind the well-organised heist was financial.

The two men said they had called the family of the former president and demanded a ransom of 200,000 euros, Cypriot state television RIK reported. The family has denied ever paying the ransom.

The Research 2000/Daily Kos’ latest McCain vs Obama opinion polls show that John McCain is currently leading Barack Obama in Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, and Wyoming — and McCain and Obama are statistically tied in North Dakota.

DJ AM called himself “the luckiest man alive” as he recalls the tragic plane crash of Sept. 19 that killed four passengers and left DJ AM and rocker Travis Barker severely burned.

“When the plane was on the runway I took my shoes off and fell asleep. The next thing I remember is us crashing into something,” he said.

“I woke up to Travis screaming and the plane engulfed in flames. I remember thinking it was like ‘Miami Vice,’ where a car is on fire and you run before the gas tank explodes — we gotta get out of here!”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics says in a report that the U.S. ranks 29th worldwide in infant mortality. This has the U.S. worsening its ranking tying with Slovakia and Poland but falling behind Cuba. In 1960 the U.S. came in at 12th place and it was ranked 27th in 2004, while Japan which is ranked third has an infant mortality rate of less than half the U.S. at 2.8 per thousand live births.

The CNN/Time Magazine/Opinion Research’s latest McCain vs Obama opinion polls show that the Republican presidential candidate John McCain is presently holding lead over his Democratic rival Barack Obama, in Georgia and Missouri.

Survey USA’s latest Obama vs McCain Georgia, New Jersey opinion polls show that John McCain is leading Barack Obama in the Empire State of the South, while Barack Obama is leading John McCain in the presidential race, in the Garden State.
Let’s check out what the Survey USA’s latest McCain vs Obama Georgia, New Jersey opinion polls show.

Scientists are trying to discover a link between Parkinson’s disease and low blood levels of vitamin D. A U.S. team found that 55 % of patients with Parkinson’s had low levels of vitamin D as compared to 36 % of healthy elderly people. Following this researchers at Emory University are trying to find out if the vitamin deficiency is a cause or the result of having Parkinson's.

Representative John Lewis, a Democratic congressman and a civil rights icon, accused the McCain campaign of “sowing the seeds of hatred and division.”  The Georgia Democrat and Obama supporter said the negative tone of the campaign reminded him of the segregationist era of Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1960s.

John McCain is having respectable lead over his democratic rival Barack Obama, in the presidential race, in the Empire State of the South; well, that’s the recent Obama vs McCain Georgia Polls show.

McCain is leading Obama in the recent GA polls conducted by Research 2000/Daily Kos, Strategic Vision, Rasmussen Reports, and InsiderAdvantage/Poll Position. Let’s check out what these latest McCain vs Obama Georgia polls say.

Federal Health officials said 25 % of teenage girls have been vaccinated with the new vaccine Gardasil, against cervical cancer last year in its first full year of distribution. Gardasil, by Merck & Company protects against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, or HPV that cause about 70 % of cervical cancers.  

Researchers have reported that there is not enough evidence to show that circumcision reduces the risk of AIDS in gay or bisexual men. Previous studies in Africa had shown considerable reduction in AIDS in cases of heterosexual sex.

Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff, one of the nation’s top psychiatric researchers, while working on government-funded drug research, violated federal research rules, by failing to report the $2-million paid to him by pharmaceutical firms, as per university documents furnished to congressional investigators.

Survey USA’s latest Obama vs McCain polls conducted in Georgia, Indiana, and Oklahoma show that the GOP presidential candidate John McCain is having lead over his Democratic rival, Barack Obama, in Georgia, Indiana, and Oklahoma presidential race.