WASHINGTON – Health insurers flirted with Democrats, supported them with money and got what they wanted: a federal mandate that most Americans carry health care coverage. Now they're backing Republicans, hoping a GOP Congress will mean friendlier regulations.
They may get more than they're wishing for.
The so-called individual mandate has...
Neo-Nazi or nice guy? More questions than answers year after Nanaimo man gunned down by cops Inquiry into fatal police shooting of Jeff Hughes has already taken a year, but could ultimately take much longer, warns RCMP commission
STEVE COOGAN, a British comedian, once told a joke about David Beckham, a footballer who is unlikely to win a Nobel prize for physics: “They say, ‘Oh, David Beckham—he’s not very clever.’ Yeah. They don’t say, ‘Stephen Hawking—shit at football.’” Successful corporations are like Mr Beckham. Both excel at one thing: in Mr Beckham’s case, kicking a...
On a chilly afternoon in late November 1998, while inspecting a rock-shelter in central Portugal’s Lapedo Valley, two archaeology scouts spotted loose sediment in a rodent hole along the shelter’s back wall. Knowing that burrowing animals often bring deeper materials to the surface, one of the scouts reached...
