Survey: 51 Percent of People Who Used Obamacare Exchanges Last Year Won't Use Them Again

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Photo Credit: TownHallAccording to a new study conducted by Bankrate.com, a majority of Americans who used the Obamacare healthcare exchanges last year through Healthcare.gov don’t plan on doing so again this year when open enrollment begins on November 15.

“Those who experienced the rocky rollout of the Obamacare health exchanges firsthand are feeling nervous about prices and wary of technical glitches on the eve of the second open enrollment period, according to the latest Bankrate Health Insurance Pulse survey. All of the survey respondents were from households that used the exchanges during the initial open enrollment last fall and winter,” Bankrate.com states about the study. . .

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National Constitution Center to Display Rare Founding Document

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Photo Credit: Scott Olson / GettyThe National Constitution Center in Philadelphia previewed the new George H.W. Bush Gallery last week and displayed its hallmark exhibition, “Constituting Liberty: From the Declaration to the Bill of Rights.”

The gallery features a first-edition copy of the Declaration of Independence and a copy of the U.S. Constitution from its first public printing.

But its star attraction—thanks to an historic agreement between the state of Pennsylvania and the New York Public Library—is an exhibition of one of the 12 remaining original copies of the Bill of Rights. This exhibition marks the first public display of the document in Pennsylvania.

The preview of the gallery opening later this year brought rare public remarks from Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. He spoke of how fitting it was for the cities of New York and Philadelphia to work in tandem to display the document, as both are former capitals of the United States.

The “Bill of Rights codifies the rights in the Declaration of Independence,” Alito said. “The Bill of Rights is needed to keep the federal government and the state governments in check, that they do not violate precious individual rights. … The precious freedoms protected by the Bill of Rights are always fragile, are always under threat.”

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'I Have to Check Her Teeth': Chilling Footage Shows ISIS Fighters at Slave Girl 'Market' Bartering for Young Women…

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Photo Credit: YouTubeAn unsettling video has emerged purporting to show Islamic State fighters bartering over Yazidi women at a slave girl ‘market’.

The terror organisation recently boasted of enslaving women from the Iraqi ethnic minority, and the men appearing in the clip explain it is ‘slave market day’.

The clip shows the men negotiating the price of the women, with blue and green-eyed young girls fetching a higher price.

It starts with one man saying to the camera: ‘Today is the slave market day. Today is the day where this verse applies: ‘Except with their wives and the (captives) whom their right hands possess, – for (then) they are not too be blamed’.

He added: ‘Today is distribution day God willing. Each one takes his share.’

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Report: White House Delayed Action to Save American Journalists Held By ISIS For Five Weeks

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Photo Credit: TownHallAccording to new reporting from Fox News’ Catherine Herridge, the White House sat on intelligence detailing the location of ISIS hostages James Foley and Steven Sotloff for five weeks before attempting a rescue. When a rescue operation was eventually launched, the location of the hostages had changed and shortly afterward, Foley and Sotloff were beheaded on video.

“The criticism is that the White House had a high [intelligence] threshold than those who would carry out the mission.”

More on the failed rescue attempt from the WSJ:

The Wall Street Journal reports that the July 3 raid on an oil storage facility, a mission for which Delta Force commandos drilled for weeks, took place too late, as officials believe the hostages were moved by the militants just days before.

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WATCH: This Robotic Penguin Chick is Doing Undercover Work in Antarctica

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Photo Credit: YouTubeIf you’re going to build a robotic spy, you might as well make it a cutie — especially if it needs to go incognito in crowds of adorable penguin chicks and their parents.

Researchers report in Nature Methods that they’ve created a new tool for penguin research: A furry fake penguin perched atop a remote-controlled rover.

A fiberglass penguin seemed to frighten the penguins, but the final (fuzzier) version passed muster.

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Surprise: Many Rock the Vote Celebs Didn't Vote in 2010 Midterms

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Photo Credit: TownHallIn case you missed Rock the Vote’s video this year, celebrities such as Lena Dunham, Sophia Bush, and Ireland Baldwin explain in a parody of Lil Jon’s “Turn Out for What” why they’re going to vote in the midterm elections. The group bills itself as a non-partisan organization seeking to drive the youth vote, but it’s really about as liberal as you can get, as Cortney has already explained.

It probably comes as no surprise, then, that at least five of the celebrities in the video didn’t even vote in the last midterm election.

Didn’t vote in the last midterm elections? It turns out many of the celebrities pressuring young people to vote in tomorrow’s off-year elections didn’t cast a ballot last time, either.

According to the Washington Post at least five stars who participated in a recent Rock the Vote video urging youth to exercise their franchise didn’t bother to show up to the polls themselves in 2010.

View co-host Whoppi Goldberg, Orange is the New Black’s Natasha Lyonne, Glee’s Darren Criss, Girls creator Lena Dunham and Rich Kids of Beverly Hills star E.J. Johnson did not vote in the last midterm election, the Post discovered.

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Former Weather Channel CEO Hits CNN Over Global Warming, ‘Climate Denier’ Label

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Photo Credit: REUTERS / NASA / NOAAFormer Weather Channel CEO and Founder John Coleman continued his critique of his former network following his appearance Monday on “The Kelly File,” telling CNN the Weather Channel has become politicized and that the global warming “denier” tag is meant to “put me down.”

Coleman made the comments to “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter Sunday.

“I resent you calling me a denier, that is a word meant to put me down,” a defiant Coleman told Stelter, who opened the show telling his audience that climate change is “one of the greatest crises we face.”

“I’m a skeptic about climate change, not a denier,” Coleman added.

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Flag Flap: Indiana Veteran, Wife Battle Homeowners Association Over Old Glory

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Photo Credit: FOX59.comAn elderly veteran and his wife say there’s “absolutely no way” the flagpole outside their Indiana home is coming down, despite threats from a homeowners association — and a local prosecutor intends to back them in court if necessary.

Bob and Judy Willits insist they intend to fight multiple letters from the Fieldstone Homeowners Association regarding the American and POW/MIA flags outside their Greenfield home. The couple was first told in early September that the freestanding patriotic display wasn’t welcome since it wasn’t mounted to the home.

“We have absolutely no plans to take it down,” Judy Willits told FoxNews.com on Tuesday. “It would be kind of a bloody situation if we had to take the flag down at this point.”

Judy Willits said her 82-year-old husband served four years during the Korean War and now suffers from Parkinson’s disease, as well as a lung ailment that limits his mobility. She said they wanted to show their devotion to the country and sense of community when they first put up the flags around July Fourth.

“He’s paid his price,” she said. “He doesn’t deserve this kind of treatment. And we never thought this would be a problem.”

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Ebola-Hit Sierra Leone Criticizes Canada Over Travel Ban

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Photo Credit: AFP / Carl de SouzaSierra Leone accused Canada on Saturday of discrimination over its decision to suspend visa applications for residents of Ebola-hit nations.

Immigration Canada announced on Friday it would not process applications from individuals who had been in an Ebola-affected nation within the previous three months.

“The government views the decision as discriminatory, coming at a time when we are trying to ease the isolation, and not re-enforce it,” said Theo Nicol, Sierra Leone’s deputy information minister.

Canada’s immigration minister Chris Alexander had described the move as a precautionary measure building on actions “taken to protect the health and safety of Canadians here at home”.

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Brittany Maynard, The 29-Year-Old With Brain Cancer, Has Committed Suicide

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Photo Credit: LifeNewsBy Steven Ertelt.

Brittany Maynard, the cancer patient who received national attention over her plan to kill herself under Oregon’s assisted suicide law on November 1 has taken her own life. That’s despite the fact that cancer patients and pro-life groups have tried to talk her out of the decision.

The Portland Oregonian newspaper first reported that Brittany died Sunday afternoon after taking her own life with legally-prescribed lethal drugs. People magazine confirmed her death an hour later in a news report.

“Goodbye to all my dear friends and family that I love. Today is the day I have chosen to pass away with dignity in the face of my terminal illness, this terrible brain cancer that has taken so much from me … but would have taken so much more,” Brittany wrote on Facebook. “The world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers. I even have a ring of support around my best as I type …. Goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!”

Her death comes despite her decision last week to postpone her suicide — with Maynard telling CBS that it “doesn’t seem like the right time now” to end her life.

“I still feel good enough and I still have enough joy and I still laugh and smile with my family and friends enough that it doesn’t seem like the right time right now,” Maynard said late last week in that interview. “But it will come, because I feel myself getting sicker. It’s happening each week.”

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Photo Credit: Compassion and ChoicesFamily, friends of Brittany Maynard say goodbye on social media

By KGW.com Staff.

Many posts on social media said that Brittany Maynard, a terminally ill woman who moved to Oregon to take advantage of the state’s doctor-assisted suicide law, has died.

Sean Crowley, spokesman for the nonprofit advocacy group Compassion & Choices, told KGW he could not confirm Maynard’s death out of respect for the family’s privacy. Maynard reportedly joined Compassion & Choices, which is advocating for death-with-dignity laws in several states.

Maynard was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. She moved with her family to Oregon so she could legally kill herself with lethal medication prescribed under theOregon Death With Dignity Act.

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