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Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations including reports that Virginia's attorney general is asking the Supreme Court to expedite its review of the state's challenge to the health law.
World food prices reached a new record high in January, continuing a trend for the seventh consecutive month, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday, the Guardian reports (Kollewe, 2/3).
A shortage of healthcare workers in developing countries may hold developing countries back from achieving the U.N. Millennium Development Goal to achieve universal access to HIV/AIDS treatment by 2015, according to a report by the WHO/Global Health Workforce Alliance, IRIN/PlusNews writes.
On Thursday, House Republicans are expected to "announce fiscal 2011 spending caps," CQ reports. "Budget Chairman Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., is slated to reveal the top-line discretionary spending limits ... for the remainder of the fiscal year under unprecedented power that the GOP majority gave him in January. House leaders have said they are aiming to make $55 billion to $60 billion in cuts, while a more conservative faction is pushing for $100 billion in cuts. It is unclear where Ryan's numbers will fall," the publication reports.
As part of a week-long meeting with U.S. diplomats from around the world taking place in Washington, D.C., this week, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday gathered with 300 U.S. diplomats from around the world to discuss "strategies to energize diplomacy and streamline development," the New York Times reports.
Senate Democrats successfully fought back an GOP-led effort to repeal the health law. News outlets report, though, that the Senate vote could not only help influence the courts' consideration of challenges to the law, but also be a factor "on the long March" to elections in 2012.
Video excerpts from the Senate floor also offer a taste of the heated discussion surrounding the GOP-led effort to repeal the health overhaul.
A roundup of health care news from Texas, California, New York, Massachusetts, Arizona, Connecticut and Florida.
The NY Times reports on an Obama administration examination to see if the health law can be used to extend insurance coverage related to family planning services for women.
The Fiscal Times investigates how market consolidation in the health insurance industry could be a hurdle to the health overhaul.
The Journal reports on discussions among House Republicans regarding the possibility of proposing new limits on entitlement programs such as Medicare.
Senate Democrats held a hearing Wednesday at which Senators and witnesses debated the constitutionality of the health overhaul.
Making good on a promise to investigate funding, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., has launched an inquiry into the comparative Effectiveness research budget.
California Healthline draws parallels between the fight over the Medicare Catastrophic Care Act and the current health reform battles.
Experts continue to analyze the potential meanings and impacts of a federal judge's ruling earlier this week that the health law is unconstitutional and states find themselves in the hotseat as they make plans to move forward or stall their implementation progress.
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Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about the Senate GOP-led failed vote to repeal the health law.
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