Judge with GOP Ties Strikes Down Key Healthcare Provision on Insurance Mandates; “The Worse Off You Are, Your Taxes Increase”: Journalist David Cay Johnston Slams Obama-GOP Tax Deal; Prisoner Advocate Elaine Brown on Georgia Prison Strike: “Repression Breeds Resistance.”
Today’s Headlines
* Assange Seeks Bail in London Court
* Federal Court Strikes Down Healthcare Mandates
* Senate Advances Obama-GOP Tax Deal
* Wall Street Sees Record 2-Year Profits
* Incoming GOP House Finance Panel Chair: Gov’t Should “Serve the Banks”
* Discharged Soldiers File Suit Against “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
* U.S. Resumes Deportations to Haiti
* New York Enacts Partial Ban on Fracking
* Backers Hold Rally for Local Community Radio Act
* Peace Activists Convicted for Anti-Nuke Plowshares Action
* Kuwait Closes Al Jazeera Office over Crackdown Coverage
* Australia Rejects View of Iran as “Rogue State”
* Veteran Diplomat Richard Holbrooke Dies at 69