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Marketplace plans from the Affordable Care Act no longer feel very affordable to many people, because Congress did not extend a package of enhanced subsidies that expired at the end of 2025. Last week, the House did pass legislation to extend the expired subsidies, and negotiations have moved to the Senate. Without a deal, an estimated 4.8 million will go without coverage this year. But even without a health plan, people will still need medical care. Many, like the Sorys, have been thinking through their plan B to maintain their health. The Sorys both lost jobs in November, within days...

Excerpt- With phone lines opening back up for calls from inside the Islamic Republic, two sources, including one inside Iran, told CBS News on Tuesday that at least 12,000, and possibly as many as

Explanation: What just leapt from the Sun? A towering structure of solar plasma suddenly rose from the Sun's surface and unfurled into space -- a structure so large that many Earths would easily fit within it-- marking the onset of a dramatic Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). The event was captured in striking detail in late 2024 by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), whose continuous monitoring improves space weather forecasts and helps humanity better understand how solar activity affects satellites, GPS, radio communications, and power grids on Earth. The featured video blends three extreme-ultraviolet views from SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA),...

For just the third time since Chuck Noll was hired in 1969, the Pittsburgh Steelers will be hiring a new head coach. Mike Tomlin's run with the Steelers is over.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged that the state’s proposed wealth tax is bad economics. Newsom said he feels vindicated in opposing the proposed wealth tax after reports showed some of California’s wealthiest residents moving money and businesses out of the state, warning the measure would damage the economy and drive away investment. “This is my fear,” Newsom said in a Politico interview on Monday. “It’s just what I warned against. It’s happening.” “The evidence is in. The impacts are very real — not just substantive economic impacts in terms of the revenue, but start-ups, the indirect impacts of … people...

CUBA has been overwhelmed by a disease known as “the virus” – leaving hospitals on the verge of collapse as the Communist regime faces accusations of a cover-up. High fevers, red spots, peeling skin, swollen joints, vomiting and diarrhoea are among symptoms crippling the island’s population – but Cubans have no idea what they are suffering from. his week the Canadian government announced health screenings and quarantine of up to seven days for those coming back from the country. And in December, Spain told its citizens to stay away from Cuba due to a “serious epidemic”. Known just as “the...

Ireland is to give €42 million in aid to the people of Palestine over the course of 2026, up from €36 million last year. Minister for Foreign Affairs Helen McEntee made the announcement during a visit to the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza. The funding will include €20 million to support the work of UNRWA that provides vital services to Palestinian refugees in Gaza and the West Bank, and across the region, while €2 million will assist the work of the Egyptian and Palestinian Red Crescent Societies. …

NASA has announced that America is now just days away from a historic return to the moon for the first time in two generations. The space agency revealed that the earliest Artemis II, the first manned mission to the moon since 1972, will set off on this flight is February 6. NASA officials noted that the official launch window for Artemis II will remain open from January 31 to February 14, and several alternate dates for the launch have also been picked out. Artemis II can't launch on just any day. The timing will depend on precise orbital mechanics, such...

Since coming into the league, Kelsey Plum has been one of the most popular players among WNBA fans, not just because of her skills but also her look. Between her scoring ability and her public profile, she’s always found herself at the center of online conversations — some more unserious than others. This week, one of those discussions took a strange turn on X. A post from @nikas2points sparked chatter after it read, “I feel like Kelsey Plum was meant to be gay. Devastating loss to the lesbian community that this mistake hasn’t been corrected yet.” That single tweet opened...

United Parcel Service has slashed 48,000 jobs and shuttered 93 facilities in the first nine months of 2025, marking what CEO Carol Tomé called the company's most significant strategic shift in its 118-year history. This overhaul ditches low-margin e-commerce volumes, especially from Amazon, in favor of higher-profit areas like healthcare and small business shipping, fueled by a $9 billion automation investment and a planned 50% cut in Amazon deliveries by mid-2026.

I mean, we knew the dating scene was rough, but this is a whole other level. Read the full story on Jenny Lewis' wedding here.Not to offend any of the newlyweds out there, but sometimes, marriage really is just another piece of paper. Hey, let's not forget when that one girl married the Eiffel Tower in 2007, or in 2015, when a Russian man pledged his undying devotion to a pepperoni pizza. Yeah, you heard me. His reason? "Pizza would not reject you or betray you, and speaking quite frankly and sincerely, I love it," he told The Mirror. Apparently,...

'BIBLICAL TIMES': Iranian immigrant sounds alarm for Khamenei as protests rock Iran | 10:23 Fox Business Clips | 63.3K subscribers | 104,488 views | January 13, 2026 YouTube transcript reformatted at textformatter.ai follows.

With the approach of Israeli parliamentary elections next year, former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appears to be the biggest threat to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remaining in office, according to opinion polls. Bennett, the son of American immigrants from San Francisco, was prime minister for a year – June 2021 to June 2022… Make no mistake. Bennett is as right-wing as Netanyahu. His last term as prime minister was as leader of the New Right party, and he’s the former director of the Yesha Council of West Bank Jewish settlements… Bennett and most of the country’s Jewish political leadership are...

Trump presenting a speach at the Economic Club of Detroit

🚨This account from a Venezuelan security guard loyal to Nicolás Maduro is absolutely chilling—and it explains a lot about why the tone across Latin America suddenly changed. Security Guard: On the day of the operation, we didn't hear anything coming. We were on guard, but suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation. The next thing we saw were drones, a lot of drones, flying over our positions. We didn't know how to react. Interviewer: So what happened next? How was the main attack? Security Guard: After those drones appeared, some helicopters arrived, but there were very few....

Modern relationships between men and women are dysfunctional. But to understand why, we cannot examine them through the lens of emotion or morality. We need to look at something far more fundamental, our biology. If you look at the natural world, you'll see that there are three distinct categories that demonstrate how two organisms relate to each other. The first is competition, where you are fighting over a limited resource. This is the lion and the hyena fighting over the same carcass. One party's gain is the other party's loss. This dynamic is the classic power struggle where one needs...

The Clintons have called what they feel is Comer’s bluff. After months of dispute against House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, Bill and Hillary Clinton have today (13) REFUSED to testify in the House’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation. This escalates the battle with Comer, Republican of Kentucky, and the former U.S. President and Secretary of State are effectively daring him to hold them in contempt of Congress. Breaking News: Bill and Hillary Clinton refused to testify in the House’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation, setting up a possible legal battle. https://t.co/OqBDCzjlp4 — The New York Times (@nytimes) January 13, 2026 The New York...

The dumbest Supreme Court Justice once again humiliated the legendary institution with not only her ignorance of the case at hand but with a question that resembled Kamal Harris’s worst word salads. The embarrassment was so severe that Justice Neil Gorsuch had to step in at one point. As CBS reported, the Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday on whether laws from Idaho and West Virginia that ban biological males from playing in girls’ and women’s sports violate the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection and the landmark law known as Title IX. Two bio males, Lindsay Hecox of Idaho and...

Even before the 2026 New Mexico Legislative Session officially begins, far-left lawmakers have moved to prefile what gun-rights advocates are calling the most sweeping anti-firearms proposal in state history. According to a press release issued this week by the New Mexico Shooting Sports Association, an omnibus gun control measure has been prefiled in the Senate, sponsored by Democrat Sen. Bill O’Malley, Sen. Peter Wirth, Sen. Heather Berghmans, and Rep. Andrea Romero. Its contents are already drawing sharp backlash from Second Amendment supporters across the state. Zac Fort, legislative director for NMSSA, warned that the proposal represents a dramatic escalation in...

[Catholic Caucus] Attack on the Traditional Mass and on Orthodoxy in the consistory - Roche and Tucho Fernandez Via Messa in Latino; the Roche report against the Mass at the end, made available by Diane Montagna:Nico Spuntoni for Il GiornaleJanuary 13, 2026Almost a week has passed since the extraordinary Consistory, and curiosity remains about what the Pope and the cardinals said behind closed doors in the new Synod hall. As Il Giornale had anticipated on December 16, the four topics brought to the twenty working tables were a re-reading of the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii gaudium, the Synod and synodality, an...