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Cluster munition talks reject US proposal (AP)

GENEVA ? A group of 50 nations led by Norway, Austria and Mexico has defeated a U.S. effort to enact a worldwide ban on cluster munitions produced before 1980. Two weeks of diplomatic talks ended late Friday night with the U.S. government saying it was “deeply disappointed by the failure.” The U.S. mission to the [...]

Both Dems, GOP pleased: Supreme Court taking up Obama health-care law (The Christian Science Monitor)

There isn?t much these days that can spread unanimity across party lines in Washington. But that?s what happened following the US Supreme Court?s announcement on Monday that it will examine the constitutionality of President Obama?s health-care reform law. The news was greeted across the ideological spectrum as a positive development ? but for different reasons. [...]