Saturday, January 02, 2010

SPB News for Saturday




White House defends nominee to head TSA, says delay is based on politics


Obama Palin Shoe Shining Email Could Get Colorado State Worker In Trouble


Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients — Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little.

Iraq 'to appeal Blackwater verdict' The Iraqi government will push to appeal a US court ruling dismissing charges of murder against five security guards of the private Blackwater firm, an official has told Al Jazeera. Saad al-Muttalibi, an adviser to the Iraqi council of ministers, said on Friday that if the guards did not receive a just sentence for the killing of 14 Iraqis in 2007, the issue would complicate relations between Iraq and the United States.

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