WASHINGTON (AP) — Fears about high costs of the overhaul and mistrust of insurers are rekindling interest in letting the government sell health insurance as part of the plan. The insurance industry may have unwittingly helped with a report over the weekend that the bill recently approved by the Senate Finance Committee would raise premiums for everyone.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Authorities say police and civilians are among at least eight dead in a suicide car bombing in northwest Pakistan. Police say a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a police station. And an official in the eastern city of Lahore says gunmen have opened fire inside a federal building.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials say the airport shuttle driver accused of a bomb plot in New York had contacts with al-Qaida that went nearly all the way to the top. An attorney for Najibullah Zazi (nah-jee-BOO'-lah ZAH'-zee) says he's not aware of any such claim. He says Zazi told investigators he'd met with a number of people in Pakistan.

BEIJING (AP) — Another half-dozen people have gotten the death penalty in China for committing murder during deadly riots in the western Xinjiang (shihn-jahng) region in July. Nearly 200 people were killed when China's worst riots in decades broke out. The official Xinhua (shin-wah) News Agency also reports that three other people were given life sentences.

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Globe isn't going to be sold after all. New York Times Co. Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and CEO Janet Robinson sent a memo to employees saying "the Globe has significantly improved its financial footing" thanks to careful restructuring.