The Obama administration has quietly notified healthcare insurers, who happen to be smokers that they may get a delay from tobacco-use penalties that could have made their premiums unaffordable. A computer glitch is the cause of the postponement delay, and a fix will take at least a year to put in place.
Among the three nations that have offered National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden political asylum, the Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the story, said that Venezuela is the "obvious choice," but he added that figuring out how to get Snowden from Moscow into Caracas could still take weeks.
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could face the death penalty if convicted of planning and committing the attack. It will be the first time he is see since he was found bleeding and hiding in Watertown, Massachusetts, a few days after the attack
Interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans doubled on July 1 from 3.4% to 6.8% because the U.S. Congress failed to reach an agreement on legislation. As a result, a renewed battle between Democrats and Republicans for a lack of a good plan has also resurfaced.
