Healthcare consumers may actually experience a gain in the new year

Infants mother still in High School looks towards the future with concern about her access to affordable healthcare. photo: abhi ahmadadeen/BMLTV©

(PRN) DENVER, December. 23, 2013 - Will life for healthcare consumers actually be better following the Affordable Care Act tsunami?

Personhood for the chimpanzee is based on false premise

Young Baka Tribes boy pictured with chimpanzee in the Congo Basin.
photo: karl ammann

(PRN/USN) NEW YORK, December 17, 2013 - Lawsuits filed in New York last week are calling for the personhood recognition of chimpanzees, drawing attention to the use of animals in captivity.

When lenders sue, quick cash can turn into a lifetime of debt

Ace Cash Express in Chesaapeake Va, claims they will not tack high interest on their loans but the borrower will be charged a late fee if the loan payment isn't met 24 hours from its due date.
photo: abhi ahmadadeen/BMLTV©

(ProPublica) December 16, 2013 - Five years ago, Naya Burks of St. Louis borrowed $1,000 from AmeriCash Loans. The money came at a steep price: She had to pay back $1,737 over six months.

"I really needed the cash, and that was the only thing that I could think of doing at the time," she said. The decision has hung over her life ever since.

Christmas warning: Kaspersky Lab finds gamers attacked 11.7 million times in 2013

(PRN) ABINGDON, England, December 13, 2013 - Just days after the launch of the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered that PC gamers across Europe were hit by a massive number of attacks in 2013.

Survey conducted by social media-based recruitment specialists finds a staggering 87 percent of employees no longer trust their bosses

(PRN) NOTTINGHAM, England, December. 13, 2013 - Will your office have that empty feeling come the New Year? If so, it could be because most of your co-workers don't trust the boss and want to move on, says social media-based recruitment specialist staffbay.com.

A new survey by staffbay.com finds that over 87 percent of people will be looking for a new job in 2014 – and in what will come as unwelcome news to bosses and HR teams around the land, more than half of them find their current boss untrustworthy.

Mandela Dies: Remarks from the Nelson Mandela Foundation

(BMLTV) December 5th 2013 - It is with the deepest regret that we have learned of the passing of our founder, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela – Madiba. The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa will shortly make further official announcements.

The politics of preventing genocide

Human skulls at the Toul Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where approximately 14,000 people were tortured and later executed under the Khmer Rouge.
photo: david longstreath/IRIN

(IRIN) NAIROBI, December 3, 2013 - The crisis in the Central African Republic has been deteriorating for the best part of this year. In the words of UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson, the international community has “watched from a distance” as the country descended into “virtual melt-down.” He called the decision to act, “a profoundly important test of international solidarity and of our responsibility to prevent atrocities.”