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Healthpoint Services says it has a business model that will not only help the world's low-income populations — but also make a profit. Based in India, the company offers patients videoconferences with doctors, cheap diagnostic tests and clean water. And it hopes to spawn imitators as it proves it can be profitable.

Efforts to prosecute the leaders of the Khmer Rouge have dragged on for years, and the survivors are now elderly men. A trial that began this week could well be the last opportunity to put them on trial.

After being dragged down by the congressional debate over whether to raise the debt ceiling last summer, the president remained largely silent on the supercommittee. Though the GOP has criticized the president for what they call "failed leadership," it's unclear whether his immediate involvement would have been helpful.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the No. 3 Republican in the House, has made it clear that he wants President Obama's health overhaul law repealed. But conservative lawmakers in his hometown of Bakersfield, Calif., and elsewhere in the state are expanding insurance coverage for low-income adults.

The U.S., Canada and the U.K. are expected to impose new sanctions aimed at halting Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program. Stephen Walt, co-author of The Israel Lobby and Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, discuss whether stronger sanctions and diplomacy will work.

San Diego Dance Troupe Gets Grant To Tour

Monday is the last day the congressional supercommittee can reach a deficit-reduction deal and still make its Wednesday deadline.

San Diego voters will decide in June if they want to eliminate city pensions for most new hires. Backers of the proposal say pensions don’t work in today’s society. But one pension expert who says that’s not exactly the case.

Monday was to be the deadline for the Congressional Budget Office to release its analysis of the deficit-cutting proposal the supercommittee is to vote on no later than Wednesday. But there's not even an outline of an agreement.

A virulent Pakistan-based militant group, known as the Haqqani network, has carried out a recent series of high-profile attacks in Afghanistan that may undermine U.S. plans to withdraw from that country. Now, the U.S. is seeking assistance from Pakistan, which has proved an unreliable ally.