SPLIT DECISION: Saturday’s vote was largely along party lines and moved Barack Obama’s top domestic priority a step forward. Happy Democrats hugged in the aisles
The US House of Representatives narrowly endorsed on Saturday the biggest healthcare overhaul in decades, giving US President Barack Obama a crucial victory in a battle that now moves to the Senate.

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LIVING EXPENSES: The SIP spokesman said the office had overstated the amount in bank accounts available to the former first family by NT$45 million
By Shelley Huang
Prosecutors in charge of investigating former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) corruption and money laundering cases apologized yesterday to former first lady Wu Shu-jen (吳淑珍) for saying the family still had NT$50 million (NT$1.6 million) in active bank accounts.

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By Loa Iok-sin
The People’s Sovereignty Movement — a 49-day protest walk to promote changes to the Referendum Act (公民投票法) and push for referendums on all cross-strait agreements — departed yesterday from Longshan Temple (龍山寺) in Taipei.

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Thousands of Japanese gathered in sweltering heat on the southern island of Okinawa yesterday to demand that a US Marine base be moved out of the region, days ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama.

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The US has been negotiating highly sensitive understandings with the Pakistani military about the security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported in the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine.

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