The math is harsh: The federal penalty for having no health insurance is set to jump to $695, and the Obama administration is being urged to highlight that cold fact to help drive its new pitch for health law sign-ups. ...
Read More »Democrats bring gun debate back to presidential campaign
After 15 years of a virtual gag order on guns in presidential politics, Democrats are talking again. President Barack Obama is considering more executive action on gun control. The front-runner in the Democratic race to replace him says she “will ...
Read More »Cybersecurity firm: Chinese hacking on US companies persists
Chinese hacking attempts on American corporate intellectual property have occurred with regularity over the past three weeks, suggesting that China almost immediately began violating its newly minted cyberagreement with the United States, according to a newly published analysis by a ...
Read More »Under Clinton, State’s cybersecurity suffered
The State Department was among the worst agencies in the federal government at protecting its computer networks while Hillary Rodham Clinton was secretary from 2009 to 2013, a situation that continued to deteriorate as John Kerry took office and Russian ...
Read More »Dispute over 1999 hit an ongoing problem for rapper Jay Z
There’s no dispute that Jay Z’s 1999 hit “Big Pimpin'” includes elements of a 1950s Egyptian love ballad, yet the flute notes taken from “Khosara Khosara” have created a lingering problem for the rapper and a hit-making producer. For two ...
Read More »States go after unclaimed property, use it to patch budgets
When Americans lose track of money — in old, neglected bank accounts, paychecks they forgot to cash, unredeemed life insurance policies and the like — state governments are increasingly aggressive in taking control of the cash. Now, with those efforts ...
Read More »Appeals court rules in favor of Google’s online library
Google is not violating copyright laws by digitizing books for a massive online library, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in a decadelong dispute. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan agreed with a judge who concluded that ...
Read More »How America’s ‘heroin city’ is turning itself around
Rutland, Vermont, is fed up with heroin. Take Tom VanEps. He and his neighbors used to just watch, disgusted, as dealers worked Baxter Street, their buyers sometimes littering the ground with used syringes. Now, he said, they confront the dealers ...
Read More »Missouri gubernatorial candidates raise millions of dollars
A Republican and a Democrat expected to run for Missouri governor raised more than $1 million apiece in recent months that could be spent on what’s turning out to be an expensive race. Campaign finance reports due Thursday show Democratic ...
Read More »Former inmate sues Jackson County over shackles during labor
A former Jackson County inmate filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing county employees of cruel and unusual punishment for shackling her while she was pregnant and transporting her to a prison more than three hours away on the same day she ...
Read More »Virginia quietly grants death row inmates new privileges
Only a few months ago, the condemned men on Virginia’s death row left their tiny cells just three days a week for showers, and an hour a day five days a week for recreation in a fenced outdoor cell. A ...
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