Liberty University gets another chance at Obamacare

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave Liberty University another chance to challenge the individual and employer health insurance mandates that serve as the foundation for Obamacare. 

Earlier this year, the justices declined to hear all pending challenges to the healthcare reform law after they upheld its constitutionality in June. 

But lawyers from Liberty Counsel, the legal group representing the school, refiled their appeal, insisting their case deserved a second look in light of the court's ruling. 

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Transplant doc, Nobel winner Murray dies in Boston

DR Joseph E Murray, who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant and won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work, has died at the age of 93.

Murray's death in Boston was confirmed on Monday by Brigham and Women's Hospital spokesman Tom Langford. No cause of death was immediately announced.

Since the first kidney transplants on identical twins, hundreds of thousands of transplants on a variety of organs have been performed worldwide. Murray shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with Dr E Donnall Thomas, who won for his work in bone marrow transplants. Read more:

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Study links traffic pollution to autism

LIVING near a busy road is associated with a dramatic increase in the risk of childhood autism, a study has shown.
Early exposure to traffic pollution, either in the womb or during the first year of life, more than doubled a child's chances of having the disorder, scientists found.

Children from homes with the highest air pollution levels were three times more at risk than those from the least exposed homes.

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Did misunderstanding lead to horrific Nigeria mob killings?

It may have been a simple misunderstanding that led to a horrific lynching.

On October 5, four University of Port Harcourt students, Chiadika Biringa, Ugonna Obuzor, Lloyd Toku, and Tekena Elkanah left campus for the village of Aluu. According to Biringa's mother Chinwe, Obuzor was owed some money and he asked his three classmates to accompany him to the village to collect on the debt.

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Mexicans feeling persecuted flee U.S.

In a remote town in northern Mexico, a 10-year-old-boy is struggling with his homework. His name is Oscar Castellanos, and the fifth-grader is getting extra help from his father because he's having trouble adjusting to his new school.

The student enrolled at Leona Vicario Elementary in the town of Cananea is technically a foreigner in his father's land. Oscar was born in Arizona and is a U.S. citizen. He recites the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance by memory without hesitation. His English accent is that of a boy raised in the American Southwest.

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