The American Civil Liberties Union today sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the DHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for refusing to turn over thousands of public documents in their possession detailing the deaths of immigration detainees held in U.S. custody.
The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. [...]

Reed Elsevier, the UK-listed publisher, has delayed the posting of the information memorandum on its Reed Business Information (RBI) division because it is still finalising its financing package, sources close to the situation told dealReporter.
Reed Elsevier wants to offer staple finance to prospective buyers, and so far, JPMorgan is at the most advanced stages of [...]

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) has been boasting his state’s health insurance reform initiative has reduced the number of uninsured by half, with nearly 300,000 more people added to the state’s health insurance rolls. What he doesn’t mention is that four out of five of them are relying heavily on taxpayer subsidies for their health [...]

Some uninsured Florida residents may get easier access to health care coverage under legislation signed Wednesday by Gov. Charlie Crist.
The new law lets insurance companies offer scaled-back health plans without all the usually required coverages. That might make insurance available to some people for as little as $150 a month, Crist said.
Under the law, some [...]

delivered a speech entitled “The Government by the Governed” where I said that our government was being run not by the public officials themselves but by the people they were governing. I said it was we ourselves, the sovereign people as the Constitution described us, who were the real rulers of our country through the [...]

The Tel Aviv Family Court rejected on Sunday the domestic violence suit of a man who claimed his male partner harassed him, on the grounds that according to the court’s interpretation, Israeli law does not define same-sex couples as a lgitimate family.
The judge based his decision on the wording of Israel’s Declaration of Independence, which [...]

Here’s what’s not in dispute: The United States spends 16 percent of its national income on health care, more than any other country in the world. In return, we get lower life expectancy than most other Western countries, uneven care, and enormous anxiety about how to pay for it.
Who’s to blame? Not the hospitals and [...]

Workers with job-based coverage for their families saw earnings rise 3% from 2001 to 2005, while their health insurance premium contribution increased 30%, according to the study by researchers at the State Health Access Data Assistance Center at the University of Minnesota.
The average cost nationally of family coverage during the period increased nearly $2,500, to [...]

Starbucks Corp says it is the latest victim of the US mortgage meltdown.
Blaming consumers in hard-hit housing markets of California and Florida, the coffee shop chain slashed its quarterly and 2008 profit forecast below Wall Street targets and said it faced the “weakest economic environment” in its history.
The company’s shares tumbled 12 percent on the [...]

A %26quot;Global Fund to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases,%26quot; say Professor Hotez (Sabin Vaccine Institute and George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA) and colleagues, would %26quot;satisfy an urgent need to support NTD control and elimination.%26quot;
The NTDs, such as intestinal worms, schistosomiasis, elephantiasis, and river blindness, represent the most common infections of the world’s poorest–the bottom billion. [...]