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Deadline dash: Glitches slow health care sign-ups

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:02 PM PDT

People line up to enroll for health insurance at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas on Monday, March 31, 2014. The deadline is just hours away to sign up for insurance in the first enrollment period under President Barack Obama's signature health care law. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Jerry Lara) RUMBO DE SAN ANTONIO OUT; NO SALESWASHINGTON (AP) — In a flood of last-minute sign-ups, hundreds of thousands of Americans rushed to apply for health insurance Monday, but deadline day for President Barack Obama's overhaul brought long, frustrating waits and a new spate of website ills.

NEW STUDY DETAILS HUMAN COSTS OF 'SMALL' WARS

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON -- The day I left Saigon, many eons ago in 1968, I remember pausing and looking at the faces of the American soldiers and officers standing around me at the airport. For six months, I had been dispatched around Vietnam, and I had spoken with hundreds of GIs, as well as their officers. I kept repeating to myself that North Vietnam's fight was infinite -- it would never give up -- while ours was finite and not only had a limit, but Hanoi and the Viet Cong knew it.

Deadline dash: Health care sign-ups amid glitches

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 01:45 PM PDT

Charles Ellis, 53, of Salt Lake City, right, works with navigator Luis Rios while seeking help to buy health insurance at the Utah Health Policy Project Monday, March 31, 2014, in Salt Lake City. Ellis said he doesn't feel he needs insurance but was signing up to avoid a penalty. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)WASHINGTON (AP) — In a flood of last-minute sign-ups, hundreds of thousands of Americans rushed to apply for health insurance Monday, as deadline day for President Barack Obama's overhaul brought long waits and a new spate of website ills.

Mad dash for health care sign-ups on deadline day

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 11:18 AM PDT

A screen shows the countdown for the deadline to sign up for health insurance during a health care enrollment event at SEIU-UHW office, Monday, March 31, 2014, in Commerce, Calif. Monday marks this year's open enrollment deadline, but consumers will get extra time to finish their applications. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)WASHINGTON (AP) — A flood of last-minute applicants rushed to sign up for health insurance on Monday, deadline day for President Barack Obama's health care law, with more than 100,000 people at a time using the fragile system despite a new spate of intermittent ills.

US seeking buyers for old military equipment

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 11:15 AM PDT

FILE-In this file picture taken Nov. 2, 2013 photo Afghan scrap collectors transport a load of U.S. destroyed equipment from the departing U.S. military inKandahar, southern Afghanistan. As the United States military packs up to leave Afghanistan, ending 13 years of war, it is looking to sell or dispose of billions of dollars in military hardware, including its sophisticated and highly specialized mine resistant vehicles, but finding a buyer is complicated in a region where relations between neighboring countries are mired in suspicion and outright hostility. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, file)KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United States is trying to sell or dispose of billions of dollars in military hardware, including sophisticated and highly specialized mine resistant vehicles as it packs up to leave Afghanistan after 13 years of war, officials said Monday.

Albuquerque protest over police shootings turns to 'mayhem'

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 10:55 AM PDT

An Albuquerque protest over a spate of fatal police shootings in the New Mexican city turned from peaceful to violent on Sunday evening, as police officers squared off with demonstrators decrying police brutality. The protests and hacking incident followed outrage over APD's shooting of a homeless man in the Sandia Mountains with what protesters say was dubious cause. On Sunday afternoon, hundreds of protesters walked up and down a two-mile stretch between downtown Albuquerque and the University of New Mexico, bearing signs like "APD: Dressed to Kill" and shouting slurs at officers, the Associated Press reported. Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry told the Albuquerque Journal that protests had started off nonviolent but devolved into "mayhem" late Sunday night, after the protest had dwindled to about 50 people.

Madeleine Albright Brings Pins And Politics Back To Wellesley College

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 09:32 AM PDT

WELLESLEY, Mass., March 31, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During her career, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Wellesley College class of 1959, famously used her jewelry to convey diplomatic messages.  From June 9 through July 20, 2014, the Davis Museum will present the New England premiere of the exhibition Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection, which reveals an intriguing story of American history and foreign policy as told through Secretary Albright's jeweled pins.  "I am delighted to bring this collection to my alma mater," said Madeleine Albright, who studied political science and has since launched the Albright Institute for Global Affairs at Wellesley. On June 16, Secretary Albright will give a talk and book signing at Wellesley.

Senate report: Torture didn't lead to bin Laden

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 09:12 AM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo shows al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. At the center of a hotly disputed Senate torture report is America's biggest counterterrorism success of all: the killing of Osama bin Laden. The still-classified, 6,200-page review concludes that waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods provided no key evidence in the hunt for bin Laden, according to congressional aides and outside experts familiar with the investigation. The CIA still disputes that conclusion. (AP Photo, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate investigation concludes waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods provided no key evidence in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to congressional aides and outside experts familiar with a still-secret, 6,200-page report. The finding could deepen the worst rift in years between lawmakers and the CIA.

Syriac Orthodox church elects new patriarch

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 08:18 AM PDT

BEIRUT (AP) — The Syriac Orthodox Church has elected a new patriarch to lead one of the world's oldest Christian sects, Lebanon's national news agency said Monday.

Veteran Travis Mills To Bring Story Of Inspiration To Students At The 2014 USA Science & Engineering Festival

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 07:26 AM PDT

BETHESDA, Md., March 31, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] is honored to host wounded warrior and motivational speaker retired U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills of the 82nd Airborne at the upcoming USA Science & Engineering Festival. Mills is one of only five quadruple amputees who served in Iraq and Afghanistan to survive such injuries. "Travis is one of the most inspiring and encouraging stories of our generation," said Dr. Ray O. Johnson, Festival co-founder and Lockheed Martin senior vice president and chief technology officer. Mills will be featured on the Lockheed Martin stage among a rotation of inventors, entrepreneurs, and celebrities April 25-27, 2014, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C.

Germany arrests three over alleged Syrian radical links

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 06:25 AM PDT

A police car is parked in the district of Hellersdorf-Marzahn in Berlin on August 21, 2013German authorities arrested three people with alleged ties to a Syrian radical group Monday in police raids across the country, the federal prosecutor's office said. Two of the suspects, a German and a Turk, are believed to have travelled to Syria last year and joined the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which German authorities consider to be a foreign terrorist organisation. More than 100 members of the elite police squad GSG 9, the federal police force and state police conducted simultaneous searches of 10 flats in the capital Berlin and the western cities of Bonn and Frankfurt, including the homes of five more suspects. Federal prosecutor Harald Range said that the operation showed "that violent conflicts like the one in Syria have a direct impact on us in Germany".

Oil steady above $101 after US-Russia talks

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 05:55 AM PDT

The price of oil was little changed above $101 a barrel Monday as markets kept on eye on talks between the U.S. and Russia over the crisis in Ukraine.

'Love & War': Unlikely story of love and politics

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 05:46 AM PDT

This book cover image released by Blue Rider Press shows "Love & War: Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home," by James Carville and Mary Matalin. (AP Photo/Blue Rider Press)"Love & War" (Blue Rider Press), by Mary Matalin and James Carville

France in new tack to fight roots of terrorism

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 04:31 AM PDT

FILE - In this March 22, 2012 file photo, a woman speaks with a police officer near a building where the chief suspect in an al-Qaida-linked killing spree is holed up in an apartment in Toulouse, southern France. To stop the stream of French youths pursuing jihad in Syria, France is preparing to do something it has never done before: Tackle terrorism at its roots before it starts, by involving schools, parents and local Muslim leaders, The Associated Press has learned. Memories are still fresh of the radical Islamic Frenchman who gunned down children at a Toulouse Jewish school in 2012, after training in Afghanistan and Pakistan. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)PARIS (AP) — To stop the stream of French youths pursuing jihad in Syria, France is preparing to try to tackle terrorism before it starts, by involving schools, parents and local Muslim leaders, The Associated Press has learned.

Germany arrests 3 over hard-line Syria group ties

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 04:11 AM PDT

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities arrested three people in raids Monday against suspected supporters of a hard-line Islamic group in Syria, a move meant to curb the possible risks posed by extremists returning from Syria's civil war.

Brent holds above $107 as Europe tensions offset Iraq output

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 02:53 AM PDT

A general view shows an oil rig used in drilling at the Ngamia-1 well in the Lokichar basin, which is part of the East African Rift System, in Turkana CountyBy Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Brent crude traded near a two-week high at above $107 a barrel on Monday as simmering tensions between Russia and the West offset a rise in oil supply from OPEC's second-largest producer Iraq. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks on Sunday about ways to defuse the crisis over Ukraine, with Kerry telling Moscow that progress depended on a Russian troop pullback from Ukraine's borders. "Rising oil supply doesn't seem to be having a negative impact as people are prepared to buy on dips, mainly because of the Crimea crisis," Ben Le Brun, a markets analyst at OptionsXpress in Sydney said.

Ten ways the Ukraine crisis may change the world

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 02:17 AM PDT

Russian Navy vessels are anchored at a navy base in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of SevastopolBy Paul Taylor BRUSSELS (Reuters) - As Moscow and the West dig in for a prolonged stand-off over Russia's annexation of Crimea, risking spillover to other former Soviet republics and beyond, here are 10 ways in which the Ukraine crisis could change attitudes and policy around the world. 1) Russia diminished: Russia's role in international affairs is diminished, at least temporarily. Moscow has been de facto excluded from the Group of Eight industrialized powers. Its bids to join the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Energy Agency are frozen.

Senate torture report examines hunt for bin Laden

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 01:04 AM PDT

FILE - This undated file photo shows al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. At the center of a hotly disputed Senate torture report is America's biggest counterterrorism success of all: the killing of Osama bin Laden. The still-classified, 6,200-page review concludes that waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods provided no key evidence in the hunt for bin Laden, according to congressional aides and outside experts familiar with the investigation. The CIA still disputes that conclusion. (AP Photo, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — A hotly disputed Senate torture report concludes that waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods provided no key evidence in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, according to congressional aides and outside experts familiar with the investigation.

Today in History

Posted: 30 Mar 2014 09:01 PM PDT

Today is Monday, March 31, the 90th day of 2014. There are 275 days left in the year.

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