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Supreme Court requires government to pay health insurers under Affordable Care Act Obamacare

Supreme Court requires government to pay health insurers under Affordable Care Act

Richard Wolf USA TODAYPublished 4:05 PM EDT Apr 27, 2020WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Congress cheated health insurance companies by reneging on a $12 billion promise made under the Affordable Care Act.The decision represents the high court's views on Congress' power of the purse: Lawmakers cannot promise funding in legislation and…
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April 27, 2020
How an Islamic Jihad mastermind ambushed his Israeli nemesis, and how his death was avenged Hebron

How an Islamic Jihad mastermind ambushed his Israeli nemesis, and how his death was avenged

The first report was that Colonel Dror Weinberg was wounded. It was a Friday night, November 15, 2002. Arik “Harris” Brabbing was at home with his family in Modi’in. On the phone was R., the Hebron district coordinator for the Shin Bet security service. “R. said, ‘There was gunfire in…
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April 27, 2020
The Bad Superintendent Computers in School

The Bad Superintendent

Photo: Willie Anderson/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images For the first time in his long, charmed career, Frank Tassone had a problem. The erudite, widely admired superintendent of the Roslyn, Long Island, school district—the North Shore public-school system he had managed to make, based on test scores, one of…
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April 27, 2020