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WASHINGTON The O bama administration a n nounced Tuesday that it would delay for a year, until 2015, the Affordable Care Act mandate that employersprovide coverage for their workers or pay penalties, responding to business complaints and postponing the effective date beyond next year's midterm elections. "We have heard concerns about the complexity of the requirements and the need for more time to implement them effectively," Mark Mazur, an assistant Treasury secretary, wrote on the department's website in disclosing the delay. "We recognize that the vast majority
ofbusinesses that will needto do this reporting already provide health insurance to their workers, and we want to make sure it is easy for others to do so." Under the 2010 law, employers of more than 50 full-time employees were required to provide them with health insurance starting next year or face fines.Numerous reports had suggested that some companies with payrolls at or just over that size were complaining that they would have to cut some jobs or switch some full-time workers to part-time employment. The change doesnot affect other central provisions of the law, in particular those establishing health care m arketplaces in the states — known as
SnOWden Statement —The father of NSAleaker Edward Snowden, frustrated by his inability to reach out directly to his son, on Tuesday wrote him an open letter, extolling him for "summoning the American people to confront the growing danger of tyranny." The
letter was written jointly by Lon Snowdenandhis lawyer, Bruce Fein. It comes a day after Edward Snowden issued a statement through WikiLeaks ripping the Obama administration for leaving him "state-
less" and revoking his passport. Snowden is in Russia andhas been seeking asylum in multiple countries.
exchanges — where individual Americans without health insurance can shop from a menu of insurance policies. Under those provisions, subsidies are available for lower-income peo-
Snowden rumor —The plane carrying Bolivian President Evo
ple who qualify.
he had suggested that his government would bewilling to consider
However, it will be difficult for officials running the exchanges to know who is entitled to subsidies if they are not able to confirm whether em-
granting asylum to the American.
Morales was rerouted to Austria after France and Portugal refused to let it cross their airspace because of suspicions that NSA leaker Ed-
ward Snowdenwas onboard, Bolivian officials said Tuesday. Officials in both Austria and Bolivia said that Snowden was not on the plane, which was taking Morales home from a summit in Russia, where
Prescription drug deaths —Overdosedeaths inthe U.S.are rising fastest among middle-aged women, and their drug of choice
is usually prescription painkillers, the government reported Tuesday. "Mothers, wives, sisters and daughters are dying at rates that we
ployersare offering insurance to their employees. Enrollment in the exchanges is to begin Oct. 1, and they are to take effect Jan. 1. Mazur wrote that the oneyear delay ' will allow us to consider ways to simplify the new reporting requirements consistent with the law."
have never seen before," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which compiled the data.
Iraq attacks —Insurgents unleashed anewwaveof attacks on Tuesday in Iraq, killing at least 49 people, officials said, the latest in a surge in
violence acrossthecountrythat has raised concerns over areturn to sectarian bloodshed. Also, seven militants were killed. There was no claim of responsibility for the attacks, mostly car bombs in Shiite areas.
Zimmerman trial —A prosecutor in GeorgeZimmerman's murder trial on Tuesday tried to pick apart the statements of a Sanford police de-
tective whowasa prosecution witness but gavetestimony that seemed to benefit the defense. Prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda asked the judge to strike from the record a statement Detective Chris Serino made Monday
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in which hesaid hefound credible Zimmerman's account of how hegot into a fight with Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty in 17-year-old's fatal shooting last year, arguing he acted in self-defense.
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Perrlf's plans —For Gov.Rick Perry, the longest-serving Texas governor, three four-year termsapparently may beenough. Ornot. Perry has sent an email message to friends that he plans to make an announcement concerning his "exciting future plans" at an event in San
Antonio on Monday. He has played his decision on whether to seek a fourth term in 2014 close to the vest.
Stephen Grady readsvarious notes left at the Granite Mountain Interagency Hotshot Crew fire station on Tuesday in Prescott, Ariz. Shortly before flames engulfed his comrades Sunday, the Hotshot firefighters' lookout radioed his team that the blaze had shifted direction with the wind and that he was fleeing for safety. The harrowing experience of the elite crew's lone survivor was detailed
Tuesday by aPrescott fire official, who also defendedhis department's actions in the tragedy that killed19 firefighters. The deaths raised questions over whether the crew should have been
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ties said about 200 homesand other structures burned in Yarnell, a town ofabout700people.Hundredswereevacuated.
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Egypt's Morsidefiantly says he won't step down By Hamza Hendawi and Lee Keath
violence." Morsi's defiant s tatement The Associated Press showed that he and his MusCAIRO — His fate hang- lim Brotherhood are prepared ing in the balance, embattled to run the risk of challenging President Mohammed Morsi the army. It also entrenches vowed not to resign Tuesday, the lines of confrontation behours before a deadline to yield tween his I slamist supportto the demands of millions of ers and Egyptians angry over protesters or see the military what they see as his efforts to suspend the constitution, dis- impose control by his Muslim band parliament and install a Brotherhood and his failures to new leadership. deal with the country's multiple The Islamist leader demand- problems. ed that the powerful armed The crisis has become a forces withdraw their ultima- struggle over whether a poputum, saying he rejected all "dic- lar uprising can overturn the tates" — from home or abroad. verdict of the ballot box. Morsi's Outside on th e s treets, the opponents say he has lost his sensethat both sides are ready legitimacy through mistakes to fight to the end sharpened, and power grabs and that their with clashes between his sup- turnout on the streets over the porters and opponents that left past three days shows the naat least seven dead. tion has turned against him. In an emotional speech aired For a third day Tuesday, millive to the nation, Morsi, who lions of jubilant, chanting Morsi a year ago was inaugurated opponents filled Cairo's hisas Egypt's first freely elected toric Tahrir Square, as well as president, pledged to protect avenues adjacent to two presihis "constitutional legitimacy" dential palaces in the capital, with his life. He accused loy- and main squares in cities naalists of his ousted autocratic tionwide. After Morsi's speech, predecessor Hosni Mubarak of they erupted in i ndignation, exploiting the wave of protests banging metal fences to raise to topple his regime and thwart a din, some raising their shoes democracy. in the air in a show of contempt. "There is no substitute for "Leave, leave," they chanted. legitimacy," said Morsi, who Morsi "doesn't understand. at times angrily r aised his He will take us toward bloodvoice, thrust his fist in the air shed and civil war," said Islam and pounded the podium. He Musbah, a28-year-oldprotester w arned that e l ectoral a n d sitting on the sidewalk outside constitutional legitimacy "is the Ittihadiya palace, dejectedly the only guarantee against resting his head on his hand.
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