Health-Care Reform. White House officials are looking for ways to simplify and scale back the major Democratic bills, lower the cost and drop contentious but nonessential elements.
China Protests. Protesters took to the streets in Urumqi -- the Chinese city torn by ethnic riots in July – criticizing the government for failing to protect people after attacks by assailants wielding syringes.
Laura Ling & Euna Lee. The American journalists detained by North Korean authorities for nearly five months admit in a newly published account that they briefly entered North Korean territory while reporting a story, but say they were "firmly back inside China" when North Korean border guards dragged them back across the frozen Tumen River into North Korea and 140 days of captivity.
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