WASHINGTON — A broadly smiling President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a historic $938 billion health care overhaul that guarantees coverage for 32 million uninsured Americans and will touch nearly every citizen’s life, presiding over the biggest shift in U.S. domestic policy since the 1960s and capping a divisive, yearlong debate that could define the November elections.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin says he talks to Ben Roethlisberger daily while the star quarterback is being investigated for an alleged sexual assault. Tomlin says they talk “about football, about personal life; that’s the nature of our relationship.” Roethlisberger is accused of assaulting a 20-year-old college student in a Georgia nightclub on March 5.
BEIJING — Google Inc.’s partial withdrawal from the China market brought swift condemnation from the government Tuesday while leaving Chinese Web surfers to wonder whether they would be able to access a new offshore search engine site or be blocked by censors.
LOS ANGELES — As Michael Jackson lay dying in his bedroom in a rented mansion, his doctor stopped CPR on him and delayed calling paramedics so he could collect drug vials at the scene, according to an employee of the pop star who called 911.