Obama administration proposes rules for healthcare partnerships
The Obama administration is trying to encourage doctors and hospitals to collaborate more closely to improve patient care. Providers would be rewarded for delivering better results for Medicare patients.The Obama administration proposed new regulations Thursday to encourage doctors and hospitals to collaborate more closely to improve patient care, a major goal of the sweeping healthcare law the president signed last year.
Decisive phase in Ivory Coast conflict?
The internationally recognized Ivory Coast president declared a curfew in Abidjan as his forces moved closer to taking control. Air and sea borders were sealed.Ferraro: Recognize the inevitable
I had the great pleasure to know Geraldine Ferraro, the first female major party vice presidential nominee, who died Saturday.Clintons, Mondale mourn Ferraro at funeral
Guests honor former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro at New York City funeral serviceVideo: Jim Brady, 30 years later
On the 30th anniversary of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, Bill Plante profiles 70-year-old Jim Brady, a man whose life was never the same after that day.Video: Reducing U.S. oil dependence
President Obama set a goal to cut U.S. oil dependence by one-third, but can it be done, and how? Chip Reid reports on a promise often made, and never kept.In Japan, Sarkozy calls for new global nuclear standards
Japan's Kan backs the French president's push for a May meeting of G20 nuclear officials.French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on Thursday for a reform of global nuclear standards by the end of the year during a first visit by a foreign leader to Japan since the earthquake and tsunami that triggered its atomic disaster.
Funeral today for Geraldine Ferraro
Funeral services for former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro will be held Thursday Morning in New York City.State of emergency stands in Syria
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad defied expectations today, making no mention of lifting a state of emergency in a national address where he was expected to do so.President Bashar Assad blames conspiracies for Syria unrest
Foreign conspiracies, media distortions and the hand of Israel are to blame for uprisings in Syria, President Bashar Assad insists in a speech to the nation.Invoking the steely determination of his brutal father, President Bashar Assad blamed foreign conspiracies for Syria's unrest in a highly awaited speech Wednesday that sought to brace his family's 40-year dynasty against a rebellion similar to those that have left governments reeling across the Middle East and North Africa.