Americans can now sign up as late as Tuesday and still get coverage that kicks in on January 1, CNN producer Adam Aigner-Treworgy reports.
"This is similar concept as Election Day: if you are in line when the polls close, you still get to vote," a ...
Posted Monday, December 23rd 2013 at 2:16PM
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What is the best selling Christmas song of all time?
A. Jingle Bells
B. White Christmas
C. Silent Night
D. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
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The first coin-operated parking meter was installed in 193 ...
Posted Monday, December 23rd 2013 at 2:05PM
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Deborah Washington of Fayetteville, NC is suing AlliedBarton Security Services, a company which provides security guards for Cumberland County Hospital, for placing her son A’Darrin Washington, 30, into a taxi cab where he was found dead when he arri ...
Posted Sunday, December 22nd 2013 at 3:35PM
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I guess I should be shocked that a judge and a psychologist in Texas would see a rich white kid as a victim of his privilege before seeing the people he killed as victims of his drunkenness.
But I’m not.
That’s the thing about privilege; it ext ...
Posted Sunday, December 22nd 2013 at 1:59PM
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The Voice of the Martyrs USA. On December 4th, two Iranian believers -- Pastor Farhad Sabokrouh and Naser Zamen-Dezfuli -- were released from prison after being incarcerated for more than 200 days. The men were apprehended on December 23rd, 2011, af ...
Posted Sunday, December 22nd 2013 at 1:22PM
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The sanctity of marriage is under fire now more than ever. Marriage has always been a target for Satan because marriage is God's idea. God's ideas and plans are automatic targets for the devil. Marriage between a man and a woman in today's culture s ...
Posted Sunday, December 22nd 2013 at 1:04PM
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(December 21, 2013) Last April, workers at Middlesex Hospital in Connecticut called the police to report that a psychiatric patient named Mark Russo had threatened to shoot his mother if officers tried to take the 18 rifles and shotguns he kept at he ...
Posted Sunday, December 22nd 2013 at 12:12PM
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Many people are perplexed by the wide-ranging dosages given to insulin-injecting diabetics. You may be asking, "What is the normal dose of insulin?" Actually, there's no normal dose, according to the American Diabetes Association. Some bodies are ve ...
Posted Sunday, December 22nd 2013 at 11:59AM
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Question: Which of the following is NOT one of Santa's reindeer?
A. Comet
B. Dasher
C. Prancer
D. Dixen
Fact of the Day
Google has a “dog policy” which allows employees to bring their dogs to the office.
Today in H ...
Posted Sunday, December 22nd 2013 at 11:51AM
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Claire Davis, the 17-year-old student shot December 13 at Arapahoe High School in Colorado, has died, according to the official Facebook account of the Littleton Adventist Hospital.
Police say Karl Pierson shot Davis point-blank with a shotgun bef ...
Posted Saturday, December 21st 2013 at 9:45PM
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(CNN) -- When Nailah Winkfield took her daughter to Children's Hospital & Research Center in Oakland, California, for a tonsillectomy, she thought it would be a short stay. When I walked her into that hospital, she was perfectly fine," Winkfield tol ...
Posted Saturday, December 21st 2013 at 4:14PM
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Question: What is the Secret Service code name for President Barack Obama?
A. Trailblazer
B. Renegade
C. Eagle
D. Phoenix
Fact of the Day
A Boeing 747 uses a gallon of fuel per second. And it gets 0.2 miles per gallon ...
Posted Monday, December 16th 2013 at 11:20PM
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Thousands of mourners gathered to say goodbye to Nelson Mandela today at a funeral in his beloved boyhood village, Qunu, after 10 days of memorials and celebrations. He was laid to rest at a gravesite overlooking the rural home he loved so much, mar ...
Posted Sunday, December 15th 2013 at 7:01AM
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I believe when it comes to work and marriage, we are at a unique moment for women in the West. As a single, working woman, I can say we find ourselves facing two truths: First, women have more opportunities to pursue work and a vocation outside the h ...
Posted Saturday, December 14th 2013 at 11:39PM
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Sweeping changes announced today to the way Canada Post operates could lead to as many as 8,000 fewer employees for the mail service. In a major announcement Wednesday, the Crown corporation said it will phase out home mail delivery service to urban ...
Posted Friday, December 13th 2013 at 10:55AM
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December 10, 2013 FAMU got off probation Tuesday, lifting a yearlong penalty sparked in part by the hazing death of drum major Robert Champion in Orlando. "While we celebrate, let's also remember we have to keep up the good work that led to this out ...
Posted Friday, December 13th 2013 at 10:46AM
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Most women know the symptoms of a heart attack -- squeezing chest pain, shortness of breath, nausea. But as it turns out, these symptoms are more typical for males. Female heart attacks can be quite different -- and it’s important for all women to le ...
Posted Friday, December 13th 2013 at 10:40AM
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Our beloved Jordan is officially grown up in “The Best Man Holiday.” She got her dream career with a handsome man attached to her hip. To our surprise that handsome arm piece isn’t a chocolate thunderous man. Jordan is officially down with the swirl. ...
Posted Friday, December 13th 2013 at 10:23AM
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Question: Miles Davis was a jazz musician and famous for playing what instrument?
A. Trombone
B. Saxophone
C. Trumpet
D. Piano
Fact of the Day
Red eye in photographs comes from the flash reflecting off blood vess ...
Posted Thursday, December 12th 2013 at 11:27PM
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The man, named as local media as Thamsanqa Jantjie, said he is unsure whether it was the magnitude of what he was doing or the happiness he felt throughout the day that might have triggered the schizophrenic episode.
“There was nothing I could do ...
Posted Thursday, December 12th 2013 at 11:45AM
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I later read on social media that Michelle Obama seemed to be rather peeved on seeing the Danish prime minister take the picture," he wrote on the AFP blog. "But photos can lie. In reality, just a few seconds earlier the first lady was herself joking ...
Posted Thursday, December 12th 2013 at 10:49AM
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Friday June 21, 2013: Nurses who are verbally abused by nursing colleagues report lower job satisfaction, unfavorable perceptions of their work environment and greater intent to leave their job, according to a study of newly licensed RNs.
Research ...
Posted Thursday, December 12th 2013 at 10:31AM
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A spokesman for the Rev. Billy Graham says the evangelist has generally been weaker since his 95th birthday celebration last month but his vital signs are good. Spokesman Mark DeMoss said Tuesday that Graham is at his home in ...
Posted Thursday, December 12th 2013 at 10:22AM
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The man accused of faking sign interpretation next to world leaders at Nelson Mandela's memorial told a local newspaper that he was hallucinating and hearing voices. Thamsanqa Jantjie did not describe his qualifications for being ...
Posted Thursday, December 12th 2013 at 10:07AM
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