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Obama: Canceled Health Plans to Be Restored for 1 Year
In an attempt to make good on his frequently repeated health care promise that Americans could keep their existing health care plan if they wanted to, President Obama announced on Thursday that he would allow changes to his health care law. The changes would allow insurance companies the option to continue offering consumers plans that…
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Obamacare Enrollment Well Below Target
The Obama administration revealed Wednesday that only 26,794 enrolled for health insurance during the first month since the unveiling of HealthCare.gov, the flawed website that has been at the center of controversy. Plus enrollment of more than 79,000 in the 14 states with their own websites, the nationwide number of 106,000 October sign-ups was barely…
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Don Cheadle to Play Miles Davis in Biopic
Don Cheadle is set to play legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis in a biopic that the actor co-wrote and is also slated to direct. BiFrost Pictures told the Associated Press on Wednesday that it will finance and produce Kill the Trumpet Player. Cheadle has been trying to make the film for years, AP reports. The…
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Cronut Craving? Pay New York Man to Wait for It
As the holiday season looms large and lines form outside of stores’ doors for must-have items, New Yorker Robert Samuel has made a business of waiting. The 38-year-old Chelsea resident will stand in line for the everything from the latest iPhone or a cronut—a donut-croissant hybrid that’s New York’s latest baking sensation—for those who must…
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Former NFL Player Sam Hurd Gets 15 Years for Drugs
In 2011, Sam Hurd had the world in his hands. The wide receiver had just signed a three-year, $5 million contract with the Chicago Bears. But being a professional athlete making big money wasn’t enough for Hurd, who wanted to be a drug kingpin who specialized in brokering “high-end deals.” “You had everything going for…
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A Pastor Suffering in Silence Takes His Life
Pastor Teddy Parker Jr. of Bibb Mount Zion Baptist Church in Macon, Ga., told his wife and two kids to go ahead of him to church this past Sunday morning and that he would meet them there. So off they went, joining the other 800 members of his congregation. Time passed, and the preacher, who…
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KKK Targeted Black Neighborhood for New Recruits
New rule: When targeting potential members for expansion of the Ku Klux Klan, find out if the neighborhood that is being canvassed is predominantly black first. A KKK group in Florida targeted the New Smyrna Beach area, a mostly black neighborhood, with flyers, news channel WFTV reports. Tim Washington was headed to work when he…
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Instagram Photos of Fast-Food Heist Lead to Arrests
Turns out Instagram photos of food aren’t all boring, especially when they lead to multiple arrests. Three men and one juvenile have been arrested after they used a stolen credit card to purchase $120 worth of fast food and then posted photos of the feast on Instagram, the New York Daily News reports. Rocklin, Calif.,…
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Nelson Mandela's Granddaughter Bares All in New Book
It is safe to say that Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter, Zoleka Mandela, didn’t have a normal childhood. “By the time I was born, on 9 April 1980, my mother (Zindzi Mandela) knew how to strip and assemble an AK-47 in exactly thirty-eight seconds. She was twenty years old, trained in guerrilla warfare and already a full-fledged…
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Charges Dropped for 1 Suspect in Houston House-Party Shooting
On Monday, police announced that two young men had been charged in a shooting at a Houston house party that left two teenagers dead. On Tuesday, charges against one of the young men were dropped, and a community activist says the man is a hero. Harris County authorities dropped a deadly conduct charge against Willie…
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