As the Affordable Care Act continues to suffer from serious technical issues, its troubled rollout has managed to enlist another frustrated critic: President Barack Obama. Speaking from the White House Rose Garden on Monday, Obama acknowledged that the health care law’s signup methods aren’t working as smoothly as they should be.
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A Missouri mother is battling charges of contempt of court because she was breastfeeding her seven-month-old baby while serving on jury duty. Laura Trickle said that when she received her summons for service in August, she notified Jackson County court officials that she was nursing her son Axel. In January, her service was postponed because she was pregnant.
Last Sunday morning when I went out to walk the dog, I noticed a card on the windshield of my wife’s car. She had been shopping with the girls the day before at Freehold Raceway Mall. The card said the car’s registration had expired and a summons had been issued. That had me scratching my head. My wife’s 2012 Honda Accord is leased. And typically when you lease a car, you automatically get a registration that runs for four years.
A police vehicle crashed into a family’s car at an intersection just outside of Columbus, Ohio, killing six people and injuring the officer. Two parents and their four children – including a two-year-old girl – were killed Friday night after a police cruiser crashed into their Toyota Corolla. The police car was reportedly responding to an armed robbery at a local McDonald’s when the collision occurred. The officer is in stable condition, though he is being treated for a serious head injury.
Neuroscientists at Stanford University have made a major breakthrough with regards to how the human brain engages in quantitative thought, and some say it’s opening the door for being able to someday eavesdrop on the mind’s inner-workings. A team at Stanford’s School of Medicine had their findings published this week in the journal Nature Communications
Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is working to change the law so he can mount a 2016 presidential run, according to a New York Post report. The newspaper quotes unnamed sources who say the actor, who’s in New York City to promote his latest movie, “has been talking openly about working on getting the constitutional rules changed.”
The reason Edward Snowden managed to download highly classified documents is because the NSA failed to install anti-leak software at its Hawaii facility, where the whistleblower worked, according to US officials. The security software was not installed at the site because it lacked bandwidth to ensure its effective operation, one official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
JP Morgan Chase has agreed to pay a $13 billion fine to settle federal and state lawsuits over the bank’s residential mortgage-backed securities business, according to news reports. General terms of the tentative agreement between the bank and the Justice Department were reached Friday night in a phone conversation involving Attorney General Eric Holder
UK prisons have reached 99 percent capacity, sparking fears that offenders may have to be kept in police stations or be released into the community ahead of time. The latest statistics from the Ministry of Justice show that there are currently 84,987 inmates, while the total “usable operational capacity” of the system is 85,828 – meaning that only 841 places remain in the whole of England.
At least five soldiers and a man whose occupation is yet to be revealed were wounded on Saturday when a car bomb exploded near an army intelligence building in Ismailia, northeast of Cairo, security sources and state media said. The sources said another undetonated car bomb was found while security personnel were sweeping the area. The force of the blast caused part of the military intelligence building’s wall to collapse, one of the sources said.
Madison Ruppert Activist Post A new radio-beam device has been unveiled that can disable car and boat engines from up to 50 meters away in under three seconds and can be operated from a mobile platform or at a fixed location. Devices capable of remotely disabling electronics are nothing new, given that devices capable of remotely disabling phones, intercepting communications and tracking targets have been around for years.
By Jesse Brown Vancouver’s Gary Fung built isoHunt.com 10 years ago, when he was still an engineering student. It soon became one of the top places to find links to torrent files on the Internet. Not long after that, the lawsuits came. The Motion Picture Association of America and the Canadian Recording Industry Association filed copyright violation suits against Fung, and he spent the next seven years fighting them in court. His argument was predicated on the fact that he was not distributing copyrighted material, merely providing a search tool where people could find links to torrents of all kinds,…
The list of complaints waged at the White House over its Healthcare.gov site continues to grow, but the latest incident involving the online home of the Affordable Care Act is one that could end with legal action being taken. The main “Obamacare” website has been marred with bugs and glitches since it went online over two weeks ago, and the problems are still piling up.
A day after a surveillance video went public showing a Dallas police officer shooting a mentally ill man for no apparent reason, Chief David Brown ordered that an aggravated assault charge against the wounded man be “immediately” dropped. The chief’s decision Friday came amid a growing chorus of outrage and calls from civil rights activists and others that an outside law enforcement agency — such as the Texas Rangers or the FBI — investigate Monday’s shooting of Bobby Gerald Bennett.
The US has quietly decided to release more than $1.6bn (£1bn) in military and economic aid to Pakistan that was suspended when relations between the two countries disintegrated over the covert raid that killed Osama bin Laden and deadly US air strikes against Pakistani soldiers. Officials and congressional aides said ties have improved enough to allow the money to flow again. US and Nato supply routes to Afghanistan are open. Controversial US drone strikes are down. The US and Pakistan recently announced the restart of their “strategic dialogue” after a long pause.
Pale, blonde and blue-eyed, the 4-year-old girl looks shyly into the camera. This is no ordinary photo, though. The little girl pictured is at the center of a mystery. Police in Greece say they found her Thursday with a Roma couple posing as her parents but have no idea who she is or where her real parents are.
House stenographer Dianne Reidy stunned congressional members late Wednesday evening at the tail end of the government shutdown vote when she wound her way to the podium, ranting about God, Free Masons and the inability of the nation to serve two masters. “Praise be to God,” Ms. Reidy said. “He will not be mocked. He will not be mocked. Don’t touch me. He will not be mocked.”
A French appeals court has refused to overturn a 2009 conviction for organized fraud against the Church of Scientology. The organization had claimed the original verdict violated its right to freedom of religion. The judge also upheld rulings pronounced against six individual members of the church, including Alain Rosenberg, its head in France.