The Obama administration has broadened an exemption for American Indians from the new health care law's requirement that virtually every U.S. resident has health insurance starting next year.

You could argue this years annual gathering of the National Association of Health Underwriters is the last of its kind, taking place after all appeals have been exhausted and all thats left is for the industrys sentence to be carried out.

Same-sex couples legally wed where allowed by various states now must be treated as spouses under the U.S. tax code, ERISA, and more than 1,000 other federal laws.