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TORONTO – Canada’s Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Quebec (search) law that banned private insurance for services covered under Medicare, a landmark decision that could affect the country’s universal health-care system. The justices took a year to rule on a case that began in 1997, when George Zeliotis …

WASHINGTON – Now that the Supreme Court (search) has recessed for the summer, lawmakers are bracing for what may be the most heated judicial nomination battle in nearly two decades. While few high court watchers actually expected Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist (search) to announce his resignation on Monday — …

CHICAGO – Nine men and women, including three employees of the already scandal-plagued Chicago (search) city water department, were arrested Wednesday as federal officials rolled up what they described as the Chicago branch of a Colombian heroin-trafficking operation. Eight individuals were arrested Wednesday morning in Chicago and one in New …