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Healthcare Reform: Competition and the 'Public Option'
The debate over healthcare reform is coming down to the wire at the White House, in Congress and in the media. We look at the pros and cons of the so-called "public option" and at the influence of ideology and money. Also, the Supreme Court rules strip search of student is unreasonable. On Reporter's Notebook, the missing governor, the mistress and the GOP.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenThe debate over healthcare reform is coming down to the wire at the White House, in Congress and in the media. We look at the pros and cons of the so-called "public option" and at the influence of ideology and money. Also, the Supreme Court rules strip search of student is unreasonable, and another politician betrays his wife. Did Governor Mark Sanford also damage the Republican Party?
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3 storiesSupreme Court Rules Strip Search of Student Unreasonable
The US Supreme Court today upheld the rights of students to be protected from unreasonable search in the case of a 13-year old girl who was stripped by school authorities in Arizona. Jess Bravin covers the court for the Wall Street Journal .
Read the story8 minHealthcare Reform: Competition and the 'Public Option'
Last night, ABC News televised a so-called " town hall " from the Obama White House. Today on Capitol Hill, committees were meeting both in public and behind closed doors while thousands rallied on the streets outside.
Read the story36 minGovernor Sanford and the Republican Party
Family values took another hit yesterday from the Governor of South Carolina, who explained his week-long disappearance as a tryst with a mistress in Argentina. Mark Sanford apologized to his wife, his sons, his staff and "anybody who lives in South Carolina," before he got to the point about where he had been and why he went there.
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