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FROM TODAY'S BOSTON GLOBE
Romney set to offer his own proposal on health care
Mitt Romney, whose emerging candidacy for president has been clouded by GOP doubts over his health care plan in Massachusetts, is planning a bit of political jujitsu tomorrow: taking the biggest perceived negative of his campaign and attempting to turn it into a positive. (By Matt Viser, Globe Staff)
Obama goads GOP on immigration
(Charles Dharapak/Associated Press)
President Obama came to this border city yesterday to argue that he is doing his part to crack down on illegal immigration, and that Republicans must now join him in overhauling the nation’s immigration laws for the millions of workers already here illegally. (By Jackie Calmes, New York Times)
New York mosque neighbor’s sign offends Muslims
Muslim leaders are upset that a homeowner who lives next door to a newly opened mosque has posted a sign on his front lawn that reads “Bomb Making Next Driveway.’’ (Associated Press)
Presbyterians agree to allow gay clergy
After decades of debate, the Presbyterian Church (USA) yesterday struck down a barrier to ordaining gays, ratifying a proposal that removes the celibacy requirement for unmarried clergy. (Associated Press)
NRC faults Ala. plant over valve failure
Federal regulators ordered an in-depth inspection yesterday at a nuclear power plant in northern Alabama after deciding that the failure of an emergency cooling system could have been a serious safety problem. (Associated Press)
Court orders overhaul for veterans’ care
Noting that an average of 18 veterans a day commit suicide, a federal appeals court yesterday ordered the Department of Veterans Affairs to dramatically overhaul its mental health care system. (Associated Press)
US to revise endangered-species protocol
The Interior Department, facing an avalanche of petitions and lawsuits over proposed endangered-species designations, said yesterday that it had negotiated a settlement under which it will make decisions on 251 species over the next six years. (New York Times)
Historic flooding threatens the Delta
The bulging Mississippi River rolled into the fertile Mississippi Delta yesterday, threatening to swamp antebellum mansions, wash away shotgun shacks, and destroy fields of cotton, rice, and corn in a flood of historic proportions. (By Holbrook Mohr and Shelia Byrd, Associated Press)
Judge denies bail for passenger who roiled California flight
A Yemen native who disrupted a San Francisco-bound flight was portrayed by prosecutors yesterday as a dangerous and erratic passenger who tried to barge into the cockpit twice, did not carry any luggage, and yelled “God is great’’ in Arabic. (Associated Press)
Peace Corps criticized over rapes
Jess Smochek arrived in Bangladesh in 2004 as a 23-year-old Peace Corps volunteer, with dreams of teaching English and “helping the world.’’ She left six weeks later a rape victim after being brutalized in an alley by a knife-wielding gang. (By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times)
Simpler heart treatment ignored
Landmark research that should have changed the way doctors treat millions of heart patients with clogged arteries has had little effect — many still don’t first try medicines that sometimes eliminate the need for costly, invasive procedures, a study suggests. (By Lindsey Tanner, Associated Press)
Democrats say oil subsidies add $21b to deficit
Senate Democrats unveiled their plan yesterday to eliminate federal tax breaks to the five biggest oil companies and use those savings, estimated at $21 billion over the next 10 years, to help cut the deficit. (Boston Globe)
Report warns of impact on Medicaid
The House Republican budget would leave up to 44 million more low-income people uninsured as the federal government cuts states’ Medicaid funding by about one-third over the next 10 years, nonpartisan groups said in a report issued yesterday. (By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press)
Appeals court in Va. hears health care cases
A federal appeals panel dominated by appointees of President Obama heard arguments yesterday in two Virginia lawsuits challenging his health care overhaul. (By Larry O’Dell, Associated Press)
LATEST NATIONAL NEWS FROM AP
Ala. poultry growers face devastation after storms
Tom Parker shook his head and seemed near tears as he talked about all that he lost in an April 27 tornado that ripped apart the northern Alabama farm where he grew up and had spent much of his adult life raising chickens, cows and three children. (Associated Press, 3:30 a.m.)
Flooded river taking aim at Mississippi Delta
William Jefferson paddles slowly down his street in a small boat, past his house and around his church, both flooded from the bulging Mississippi River that has rolled into the Delta. (Associated Press, 3:20 a.m.)
US judge hears dispute tied to Oklahoma City blast
A judge is being asked to decide whether the FBI has complied with federal freedom-of-information laws as part of a Utah attorney's inquiry into the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building. (AP, 3:30 a.m.)
Utah's immigration law joins Arizona's -- in court
Utah insists its new immigration law is different than Arizona's, but the 1-day-old statute is similarly stuck before a federal judge who will hear arguments in two months about its constitutionality. (Associated Press, 3:10 a.m.)
How the poll was conducted
The Associated Press-GfK Poll on President Barack Obama and politics was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Corporate Communications from May 5-9. It is based on landline and cellphone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,001 adults. Interviews were conducted with 700 respondents on landline telephones and 301 on cellphones. (AP, 3:10 a.m.)
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