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WASHINGTON (AP) — Traffic has been surging on the government's health insurance website today, the deadline day for signing up for coverage. And the experience hasn't been a smooth one for everyone. A Health and Human Services spokesman says technicians identified and resolved an issue preventing consumers from creating new accounts. People with existing accounts were able to continue working on their applications. The spokesman says more than 100,000 people have been using the system at the same time.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are broadly higher today. Investors are encouraged by comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, who says she thinks the struggling U.S. job market will continue to need the help of low interest rates "for some time." Investors had worried that the Fed might raise short-term rates starting in the middle of next year.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Jury selection is under way in the latest legal battle between the fiercest rivals in the world of smartphones. Once again, Apple and Samsung are accusing each other of ripping off designs and features. Less than two years ago, a federal jury found that Samsung was infringing on Apple patents. Samsung was ordered to pay about $900 million, but it's appealing.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A jury has found three white Pittsburgh officers falsely arrested a black art student but didn't use excessive force on him. Jurors today reached a split verdict in the federal civil rights lawsuit filed by 22-year-old Jordan Miles. He claimed the officers confronted him in January 2010 while he was walking to his grandmother's house to spend the night. He says they assumed he was a drug dealer because of his race and dreadlocks and beat him. The officers say they got rough with Miles because he fought with them while they mistakenly thought he had a gun.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Riders are getting their first turns on a Las Vegas Strip observation wheel that's opening as the world's tallest. The 550-foot High Roller has 28 glass-enclosed and air-conditioned gondolas that can each hold up to 40 people. A full revolution takes 30 minutes. The height tops the nearly 443-foot London Eye and the 541-foot Singapore Flyer. A group in New York plans a 625-foot Ferris wheel on Staten Island with a view of the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan skyline.
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