The Washington Examiner – Philip Klein Congressional Budget Office bean counters are taking a fresh look at President Obama’s national health care law, and will have updated figures on key provisions in March, director Doug Elmendorf testified this week in Congress. Though he stopped short of saying there would be a full re-scoring of the [...]

cnsnews.com – Patrick Burke The Republican presidential campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told CNSNews.com today that if elected Romney will rescind in its entirety a regulation finalized last month by the Obama administration that requires all health-care plans in the United States to cover sterilizations and all FDA-approved contraceptives, including those that cause [...]

theblaze.com – Madeleine Morgenstern The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity has reversed its decision to halt fundingof breast-screening grants to Planned Parenthood, the organization announced Friday. In a statement, Komen for the Cure Founder and CEO Nancy Brinker apologized for “recent decisions” and said the organization would continue to fund Planned Parenthood. [...]

World Net Daily – Dave Tombers The council for Baltimore County, Md., is working on a plan that would prevent “discrimination” cases that primarily involve men who dress as women and portray themselves as being female. The idea gained notoriety as the “coed shower” plan when it was adopted several years ago in Montgomery County, [...]

theblaze.com – Liz Klimas According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, adult stem cells — undifferentiated cells found in every human body that can transform into specialized cells with the medial potential to repair certain areas of the body damaged by disease or injury — fall under its jurisdiction for regulation as a drug. [...]

The Telegraph – Martin Evans Around 50 people a year kill themselves on the London Underground, equating to approximately one every week. As well as the tragedy for the individual and their families, suicides on the Tube can create hours of chaos and disruption for millions of other passengers. So to try to get the [...]

The Telegraph – Nick Squires Domnica Cemortan, 25, was interviewed for nearly six hours on Wednesday by prosecutors in a police station in Grosseto, Tuscany, amid reports that divers had found some of her belongings in Capt Francesco Schettino’s cabin. According to Italian press reports, based on interviews with prosecutors, she said she had fallen [...]

BBC – Jason Palmer Researchers have demonstrated a striking method to reconstruct words, based on the brain waves of patients thinking of those words. The technique reported in PLoS Biology relies on gathering electrical signals directly from patients’ brains. Based on signals from listening patients, a computer model was used to reconstruct the sounds of words that [...]

World Net Daily – Jack Minor The Council on American-Islamic Relations is defending four Michigan high-school football players who ignored a referee and allegedly assaulted the opposing team’s quarterback, saying the resulting charges against the four are based solely on their race. It was during an Oct. 21 football game between Star Academy and Westland [...]

San Francisco Chronicle – Victoria Colliver Federal regulators Monday approved the first drug for people with advanced forms of basal cell carcinoma, the most common kind of skin cancer, as well as the most common cancer in general in the United States. The drug, made by South San Francisco’s Genentech, a subsidiary of the Swiss [...]

BBC – James Gallagher Skin cells have been converted directly into cells which develop into the main components of the brain, by researchers studying mice in California. The experiment, reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, skipped the middle “stem cell” stage in the process. The researchers said they were “thrilled” at the [...]

Reuters - Walter Brandimarte Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s warned it may downgrade “a number of highly rated” Group of 20 countries as of 2015 if their governments fail to enact reforms to curb rising health-care spending and other costs related to aging populations. Developed nations in Europe, as well as Japan and the United States, are likely [...]

By Cliff Kincaid My Catholic priest, Father Larry Swink, delivered a homily on Sunday that I told him would make headlines. In the toughest sermon I have ever heard from a pulpit, he attacked the Obama Administration as evil, even demonic, and warned of religious persecution ahead. What was also newsworthy about the sermon was [...]