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Heathcare.gov to Undergo Maintenance During Crucial Period

As the latest effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act founders in Congress, the Trump administration isn’t slowing down its efforts to undermine Americans from signing up for health insurance.

On Friday, the administration announced that healthcare.gov, the website most Americans use to sign up for insurance through the marketplaces put in place by Obamacare, would be down for maintenance for 12 hours every Sunday in the middle of the upcoming open-enrollment period.

HHS will take https://t.co/hHpJTTaZfz offline nearly every Sunday from 12 a.m. to 12 p.m. of open enrollment, per presentation sent to me. pic.twitter.com/0n5cZ9ENOK — Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) September 22, 2017.

No explanation was given for the outages, but given the administration’s previous efforts to sabotage the insurance markets, it’s not paranoid to view this maintenance schedule as a plan to keep down enrollment.

At a minimum, it displays an indifference to the needs of the population it is supposed to be serving.

Between possibly sabotaging a vital law and enjoying unnecessary, highly priced charter flights at taxpayer expense, Price’s moral compass is having a stellar week. »

Frasier Has Left The Building

Authored by articles.sun-sentinel.com

But it would be tough to mount an argument that there has ever been a more literate comedy.

Kelsey Grammer, who wraps 20 consecutive years as Frasier Crane, equaling James Arness' run in Gunsmoke, wouldn't allow it.

From day one, co-creator and executive producer David Lee said, there was a rule: "No stupid jokes and no stupid characters.". »

‘If anyone can hear us … help.’ Puerto Rico’s mayors describe widespread devastation from Hurricane Maria

Authored by washingtonpost.com

In Loiza, a north coastal town that already had been ravaged by Hurricane Irma, 90 percent of homes — 3,000 — were destroyed by Hurricane Maria just days later.

Though images from the air showed incredible destruction, mayors were unable to reach central government for leadership and help because communication was impossible.

A man describes the devastation caused by the passage of Hurricane Maria in Arecibo, northwestern Puerto Rico. »

US bombers stage North Korea show of force

Authored by bbc.co.uk

US bombers have flown close to North Korea's east coast to demonstrate the military options available to defeat any threat, the Pentagon has said.

At the UN, North Korea's foreign minister said US President Donald Trump was on a "suicide mission".

"We are prepared to use the full range of military capabilities to defend the US homeland and our allies.". »

UN solution for a pollution free planet: polluters should pick up the bill

Authored by csmonitor.com

Highlighting the dramatic progress made by China and India, Erik Solheim, executive director of UN Environment, urged governments to take a joined-up approach to going green.

“The profit of destroying nature or polluting the planet is nearly always privatized, while the costs of polluting the planet or the cost of destroying ecosystems is nearly always socialized,” he told an international conference on sustainable development at New York's Columbia University on Monday.

"Anyone who pollutes, anyone who destroys nature must pay the cost for that destruction or that pollution.”. »