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WASHINGTON — Profanity on television, police use of GPS without a warrant, and the status of Jerusalem on passports are grist for the new US Supreme Court session opening Monday, but the main event will be President Barack Obama's landmark health care reform.

At what CNN describes as an "enthusiastic but sparsely populated Tea Party rally" on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa, GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann declared that "as president of the United States, I look forward to creating real jobs" for President Obama and Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner.

The constitutionality of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act was upheld Wednesday by one of the first federal appeals courts to hear the case.

ATHENS (AFP) – Thousands of Greek protesters surrounded the parliament building in Athens on Wednesday as a general strike paralysed the country and the prime minister held emergency talks on a controversial reform package.

MIAMI (AFP) – President Barack Obama heads to Puerto Rico on Tuesday, with votes on his mind, despite the fact that the Caribbean island's 3.8 million US citizens cannot cast ballots in general elections.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Lawyers for President Barack Obama will on Wednesday seek to stave off the biggest legal challenge yet to healthcare reform, his signature domestic policy achievement.