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Five Quick and Important Facts On Health Insurance Through Obamacare

The year is flying by and beginning in 2014, you"ll be required to have health insurance coverage. There is still significant confusion on how insurance will be bought and sold, and how much it will cost.

Original Plans For The Crazy Advanced Dymaxion Car Found In A House

We're huge fans of the crazy Dymaxion Car here at Jalopnik. It was so far ahead of its time before such a thing was even a phrase, and sadly only one survives. Now, the blueprints for this amazing vehicle have been found in a house in Dudley, Massachusetts.

New York City adopts new International Symbol ofAccessibility

The new International Symbol of Accessibility replaces the old, static "disabled" icon, which depicted a rather static, object-like disabled person in a wheelchair -- the new ISA shows a person zooming dynamically in a wheelchair instead.

Bro Wearing 'Teabag the Rags' Shirt Accused of Exposing Himself

It is completely unthinkable that the gentleman above, a kindly Massachusetts fellow wearing a TEABAG THE RAGS shirt with the New York Rangers logo shaped like a pair of testicles, would ever remove his genitals from his pants and show them to strangers.

Goldman Sachs banker settles SEC 'pay-to-play' charges

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Goldman Sachs banker Neil Morrison agreed to pay $100,000 to settle charges for his role in a pay-to-play scheme involving a Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign, the largest such penalty paid by an individual, the U.S.

Prospect Rumor Roundup: Talking Twins

Despite opening the year with one of the best minor league systems in baseball, the Minnesota Twins' collection of young talent continues to get stronger.

FBI Says Ibragim Todashev Was About to Sign a Confession

Ibragim Todashev, the first player in Wednesday's strange day of terrorism and then racism (ahead of Obama's big talk on terrorism today) was apparently about to sign a confession to the 2011 triple murder in Massachusetts when he "just went crazy.

The sooner the US exits Afghanistan, the better Matthew Hoh and Matthew Southworth

There is no military solution to Afghan political problems. Staying longer only costs more lives and money

As President Barack Obama is set to discuss the future of US counterterrorism policy around the world, he should also provide a framework for a swift end to the US war in Afghanistan.

FBI investigates links between Tsarnaev brothers and man shot in Florida

Reports link Ibragim Todashev, thought to be friend of Boston suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, to 2011 Massachusetts murder

An FBI agent shot dead a man believed to be a friend of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Djokhar Tsarnaev, during a "violent confrontation"

Perils of smartcities

Here'a an excellent piece on the promise and peril of "smart cities," which could be part of a system to make cities fairer and more transparent, or could form the basis for an authoritarian lockdown.