Health care. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pledged Sunday that President Barack Obama will support barring public funding for abortion in any health care overhaul legislation.
Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe can expect no major financial aid or lifting of sanctions until it carries out promised democratic reforms, the first European Union delegation to visit for seven years has warned.
Passing. Norman E. Borlaug, the plant scientist who did more than anyone else in the 20th century to teach the world to feed itself and whose work was credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday night.
Quote of the day. “Because of the union, my father got things like vacation days or a raise in wages. But my mother, who worked as a domestic, had nobody. It taught me from a young age the difference between workers who are organized and workers who were by themselves.” John Sweeney, retiring as president of the AFL-CIO. (New York Times)
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