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  • Gary L. Edwards of Falls Church is a member of Samaritan Ministries International, a "health care sharing ministry" in which Christian members use monthly shares to pay for each other's medical needs. Such ministries are one of nine exemptions built into the Affordable Care Act, which goes into effect next year. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

    'Obamacare' alternative: Exemptions offer way out; health-sharing ministries among excused

    While most Americans next year will have to grapple with the intricacies of President Obama's health law and the "individual mandate" requiring residents to have health insurance, Mr. Edwards and more than 160,000 others who use health-sharing ministries will be exempt. They're one of nine exemptions built into the health care law.

  • BOOK REVIEW: ‘As Sweet as Honey’

    Indira Ganesan's "Sweet as Honey" could be said to be about marriage, but like Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse," which supplies this novel's epigraphs, it is also about love and families and, ultimately, about the passage of time and the ways we experience it.

  • Davey Johnson held court Wednesday in Viera, Fla., talking about everything from email spam to safaris to what the Nationals are capable of. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

    Last year or not, Davey Johnson is ready to go

    Davey Johnson says he's going to retire when the Washington Nationals' 2013 season comes to an end. As Johnson met the media for the first time this spring training, it was clear he's in no rush to change a thing.

  • Wrapped in Jewish prayer shawls, Rabbi Susan Silverman, second left, the sister of comedian Sarah Silverman, not seen, along with her teenage daughter Hallel Abramowitz, second right, are detained by police officers in Jerusalem's Old City, Monday, Feb. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Tali Mayer)

    Israeli police detain comic Sarah Silverman's sister

    Israeli police have detained the sister of U.S. comedian Sarah Silver, along with nine other women, for wearing improper religious clothing while praying at a holy site in Jerusalem.

  • Comic Sarah Silverman's sister detained by Israel

    Israeli police Monday detained 10 women, including the sister of American comic Sarah Silverman, as they tried to pray at a Jerusalem holy site, the head of a liberal Jewish women's group said.

  • Former players urge Miller be put in Hall of Fame

    Baseball players urged that Marvin Miller be put in the Hall of Fame as they spoke Monday night during a memorial for the union leader.

  • Plymouth is better the second time

    Harvey Rapp had the car of his dreams early on. In 1960 while he was a student at the University of Rochester in Schenectady, N.Y., he paid $400 for a used 1953 Plymouth Cranbrook convertible.

  • Gabrielle Giffords tours European physics lab

    Former U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords toured the European particle physics laboratory Wednesday, cheerfully facing reporters but saying little during her first trip abroad since being shot in the head last year.

  • U.S. Senate candidates from Virginia George Allen and Tim Kaine shake hands while on stage for a photo op at the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) Tech Town Hall on Thursday, June 28, 2012 at the Microsoft offices in Reston, Va. Each candidate was allowed opening remarks followed by a 30-minute Q&A session with a Microsoft panel. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

    Between Allen and Kaine, no daylight

    U.S. Senate candidates Tim Kaine and George Allen on Wednesday announced their best quarterly fundraising totals, even as a new poll showed the Virginia political heavyweights still neck and neck heading into the summer campaign season.

  • Steve Powell looks toward his attorneys during final arguments in his trial on voyeurism charges on Tuesday, May 15, 2012, in Tacoma, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

    Jury convicts Steve Powell of voyeurism charges

    A jury on Wednesday convicted Steve Powell of voyeurism charges that stemmed from an investigation into the 2009 disappearance of his daughter-in-law Susan Powell, a mother of two from Utah who has never been found.

  • 'Housewives' says farewell with grace and humor

    There was nothing desperate about this finale. ABC's "Desperate Housewives" concluded its rocky, racy and macabre eight-season run with a tidy, affectionate send-off.

  • Marcia Cross (left) and Scott Bakula appear with, from right, Eva Longoria, Felicity Huffman and Teri Hatcher in a scene from the series finale of "Desperate Housewives." The show wrapped up its eight-season run on ABC. (Associated Press)

    Tuning in to TV: 'Survivor' crowns 24th winner

    "Survivor: One World" should have probably just been called "Survivor: Kim's World."

  • Mike Rizzo became the Nationals' full-time manager and senior vice president of baseball operations in August of 2009. (Associated Press)

    Mike Rizzo, Davey Johnson share vision of building franchise for the future

    For an organization that just passed its eighth birthday and has a history strewn with moments of ineptitude and instability, the tranquility that presides over it now is incomparable. For the two men who exemplify that stability most, the symbiotic nature of their relationship sets the precedent for the organization.

  • Baltimore shortstop J.J. Hardy slugged 3O home runs and collected 80 RBI in 129 games last season after coming over from Minnesota. He also committed just six errors and took part in 79 double plays. (Associated Press)

    Orioles shortstop J.J. Hardy happy to extend stay in Baltimore

    Brian Ward, a minor league catcher, sat on a chair in front of his locker in the Orioles' big-league spring training clubhouse. When asked to describe Baltimore shortstop J.J. Hardy, Ward spoke in a hushed tone.

  • American Scene

    A suspect in the shooting death of a Washington state trooper has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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