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The cabinet secretary responsible for Obamacare apologized Wednesday to Americans frustrated by the glitch-prone website that has blocked them from comparing and enrolling in health insurance plans.
That's the sobering conclusion one has to take from this chart from The Washington Post. The American ideal—that anyone can rise up from poverty to succeed—just doesn't seem to apply to a lot of America's workers, particularly African Americans. While it is possible and it does happen, the reality is that it isn't as common as we think and it's far from equally possible.
The main suspect in a "horrific" South Carolina murder-suicide that left six people dead, including two children, released four other children before the slaughter began, police told NBC News late Monday.
A 15-year-old girl and a family friend more than twice her age who ran away together have been found alive three days after vanishing, police confirmed to NBC News early Wednesday. Emily Lalinsky left her Plymouth Township, Mich.
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. -- A stream of thick, blowing dust crossing an Arizona highway led to a chain-reaction crash that killed three people in an area where gusting winds often stir up towering clouds of dirt that can reduce visibility to zero.
Six people, including two children, were found shot to death Tuesday night in an apparent murder-suicide in South Carolina, authorities said.
Multiple bodies were found Tuesday night in a home in northwest South Carolina, authorities said.The Greenwood County Sheriff's Office didn't immediately return a call from NBC News, but Sheriff Tony Davis told NBC station WYFF of Greenville, S.C.
LAS VEGAS — Safety officials announced plans Tuesday to cite performance company Cirque du Soleil and Las Vegas Strip casino MGM Grand after an acrobat died over the summer in a fall witnessed by the audience.
When Superstorm Sandy barrelled into New York and New Jersey a year ago, killing more than 180 people and destroying decades old landmarks as well as whole neighborhoods, few could have imaged that a year later the impact of that day could be so real.
