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Washington state’s ObamaCare exchange faces funding shortfall

The Washington Health Benefit Exchange call center in Spokane is so busy that staffing has been quadrupled, with the center receiving up to 10,000 calls a day. The problem is not enough of those callers are actually signing up for…

University of Rhode Island removes Gruber video after it goes viral

Economist Jonathan Gruber speaks at a conference of the Workers Compensation Research Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, March 12, 2014. Dr. Gruber is a professor at MIT and the architect of the healthcare reform laws in Massachusetts and the American Affordable…

150 years later, Union sailors from USS Monitor to be buried at Arlington

The bodies were found when the USS Monitor’s rusty gun turret was raised from the ocean floor. ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Two Navy sailors slated for heroes’ burials at Arlington National Cemetery have waited a century and a…

A decade later, deadly Rhode Island nightclub fire still haunts families

Ann Gruttadauria still recalls her fateful decision to urge her daughter Pamela to go out with friends to see a faded 1980’s band headlining a Rhode Island club on a night that ended in unspeakable tragedy. Pamela Gruttadauria was 33,…