Move over, website woes. Lawmakers confronted the Obama administration Tuesday with a difficult new health care problem — a wave of cancellation notices hitting individuals and small business who buy their own insurance.
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Trayvon Martin’s mother told a panel of senators Tuesday that state stand your ground self-defense laws do not work and must be amended, reviving the politically charged gun control issue a year ahead of the 2014 midterm elections.
The judge sentenced Kevin Santos to life in prison. Then she performed his wedding ceremony. Next, she gave the new couple cake she had baked. The events did not sit well with the family of the murder victim, and San Diego Superior Court judge Patricia Cookson is hearing about it.
Police say 56-year-old Michael Guzzo killed four members of a family who lived next door, along with their two dogs. He then walked across a courtyard and tried to kill more neighbors with dogs before he returned home and killed himself. The reason? It might have been the dogs’ barking.
The Obama administration is considering ending spying on allied heads of state, a senior administration official said, as the White House grappled with the fallout from revelations that the U.S. has eavesdropped on German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The United States could lose access to an important law enforcement tool used to track terrorist money flows, German officials said Monday, as Europe weighed a response to allegations that the Americans spied on their closest European allies.
A charge against Grammy Award-winning R&B singer Chris Brown has been reduced to a misdemeanor and he has been ordered released.
A small plane crashed into the side of a house in Oregon on Monday, but the woman inside was able to escape.
Penn State said Monday it is paying $59.7 million to 26 young men over claims of child sexual abuse at the hands of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
An unscripted joke that came from a child during a segment of Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC show prompted a network apology. A boy joked about killing Chinese people to help erase the U.S. debt
Austrian police are seeking witnesses to an unusual theft — of huge amounts of grass, mowed secretly from a farmer’s field. Estimated value: $4,000.
The doctor convicted of killing Michael Jackson was released from jail Monday after serving nearly two years of a four-year sentence.
Violence, cyberbullying, school woes, obesity, lack of sleep … doctors see connections to these symptoms and online activity. They advise parents to wake up to what their kids are doing online, and start putting limits on what’s allowed.
An off-road racing enthusiast has survived being struck by lightning twice during the same storm in North Texas.
The brutal killings of a Chinese immigrant mother and her four young children in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood left neighbors and police officers with gruesome images of the suspect, Mingdong Chen, 25, dripping in blood.
