AP - President Barack Obama is trumpeting endorsements from the AARP and the American Medical Association of House Democrats' health care legislation.

Prospective judges will no longer have to declare if they are Freemasons, the government has announced .For the past 11 years, anyone applying to be a judge or a magistrate for the first time had to declare on an application form whether they belong to the Freemasonry.But Jack Straw, the justice secretary, said that as a review had shown no evidence of impropriety or malpractice as a result of a judge being a Freemason it would be "disproportionate" to continue ... more

CWU executive meets in wake of talks aimed at breaking deadlock over jobs, pay and modernisationPostal union leaders are meeting to decide whether to press ahead with two more national strikes.Officials from the Communication Workers Union have held several meetings with Royal Mail bosses in the past fortnight amid deadlock over jobs, pay and modernisation.The union declined to comment on rumours that a draft deal had been agreed, confirming only that the union's postal executive is meeting to decide the ... more

Rural rejecters of wind power aren't bumptious bumpkins, says Adrian Snook. We are asserting our rights as consumers and votersIn the last two years the number of large windfarm projects gaining approval from local councils in England has slumped from 57% to an all-time low of just 25%, according to the British Wind Energy Association."We are concerned that the number of applications being rejected indicates that politics have become more and more entrenched at the local level," said Gemma Grimes ... more

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