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How to avail insurance claims if you have two health policies

I am covered with an individual health insurance policy. Can I buy two health insurance policies from two different insurance companies? How can I avail myself of a claim in such a scenario?

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Biden dives into high-stakes negotiations over Build Back Better infrastructure plan

WASHINGTON - His government overhaul plans at stake, President Joe Biden appeared determined Wednesday to strike agreement with two wavering Democratic senators, likely trimming back the size of his potentially historic $3.5 trillion measure that will collapse without their support.With Republicans solidly opposed and no Democratic votes to spare, Biden canceled a trip to Chicago that was to focus on COVID-19 vaccinations so he could dig in for another day of intense negotiations ahead of crucial votes.

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What happens when the government shuts down?

WASHINGTON - The 2021 fiscal year is coming to an end on Friday and unless Congress agrees on a budget, there will be a federal government shutdown come Oct. 1.It would be the 21st shutdown since Congress introduced the modern budget process in 1976 — the last one ending in January 2019.But what does a shutdown mean for the everyday person? It certainly doesn’t mean the government will cease to exist or anarchy will rule the land. In fact, the word "shutdown" might be overstating the actual impact.

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Calgary political scientist calls addition of hospitals to Critical Infrastructure Defence Act ‘positive’

Lisa Young, professor at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, joins Global News’ Dallas Flexhaug to discuss Alberta’s new health minister, addition of hospitals to the controversial Bill 1, and COVID-19 vaccine incentives.

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Ivory-billed woodpecker, 22 other species now extinct, US says

BILLINGS, Mont. - Death’s come knocking a last time for the splendid ivory-billed woodpecker and 22 more birds, fish and other species: The U.S. government is declaring them extinct.It’s a rare move for wildlife officials to give up hope on a plant or animal, but government scientists say they've exhausted efforts to find these 23.

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75% COVID-19 patients were overcharged by hospitals: Survey

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JPMorgan planning for ‘potentially catastrophic’ event if US hits debt limit

WASHINGTON - JPMorgan Chase & Co’s Chief Executive Jamie Dimon told Reuters on Tuesday that if the U.S. reaches its debt limit, a "potentially catastrophic" event could occur. The nation’s largest lender says it’s preparing for a worst-case scenario if a possible default with the U.S.

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Mask opt-out legislation clears Senate committee

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A bill that would allow parents in Pennsylvania to exempt their children from wearing a mask at school cleared a state Senate committee on Tuesday as Republican lawmakers started making good on their pledge to counter the governor’s statewide mask mandate.The legislation would hand the ultimate decision on masking at school to parents and guardians, allowing them to overrule any face-covering mandate imposed by the state Department of Health, a local health department or a school board.It would also prohibit schools from keeping unmasked students away from other students or excluding them from any school-sponsored activities.The Senate Education Committee approved the bill on a party-line vote.

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Mega Millions tickets worth $1 million sold in Delaware, Camden counties

PHILADELPHIA - Two lottery tickets each worth $1 million was sold in Delaware County and Camden County. A New Jersey lottery ticket that was sold in Camden County has won $1 million. The lottery ticket matched five out of five white balls drawn for the Saturday, September 25 drawing. The ticket was sold at a Shop & Go on the 100 block of Johnson Road in Turnersville and is billed as being a second-tier prize. Also, one ticket matched four of the five white balls and the Powerball drawn winning the $50,000 third-tier prize.

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Measure on masking in youth sports clears House committee in Pa.

Kids wear masks as they return to school in Hillsborough County in August of 2021. HARRISBURG, Pa. - Legislation that cleared a House committee on Monday would give Pennsylvania school districts the authority to decide whether student athletes must wear masks while playing.The Republican-controlled House State Government Committee approved the measure 15-10 along party lines.

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Lottery ticket sold in Camden County wins $1 million

PHILADELPHIA - A New Jersey lottery ticket that was sold in Camden County has won $1 million. The lottery ticket matched five out of five white balls drawn for the Saturday, September 25 drawing. The ticket was sold at a Shop & Go on the 100 block of Johnson Road in Turnersville and is billed as being a second-tier prize. Also, one ticket matched four of the five white balls and the Powerball drawn winning the $50,000 third-tier prize. That ticket was sold at a Wawa on the 400 block of New Rd., Northfield in Atlantic County. The winning numbers for the September 25 drawing were 22, 23, 37, 62, and 63.

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COVID-19: Quebec tables bill to restrict anti-vaccine protests

The provincial government has tabled a special law to prohibit anti-vaccine protests outside schools and health-care establishments. This comes a day after Premier François Legault said his patience had run out.

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Quebec adds 754 new COVID-19 cases, 7 more deaths

‘There are limits’: Quebec tables bill to restrict anti-vaccine protests near schools, hospitals The latest screening information shows 33,812 tests given Tuesday.Quebec’s caseload stood at 405,728 in the latest update while the death toll reached 11,347.Health officials say more than 387,000 people have recovered from the virus.

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Quebec tables bill to restrict anti-vaccine protests near schools, hospitals, fines could reach $12,000

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Brian Laundrie argued in Wyoming restaurant hours before Gabby Petito vanished: eyewitnesses

One of the last times Gabby Petito was seen alive involved an explosive argument between Brian Laundrie and wait staff at a Jackson Hole restaurant, according to a New Orleans couple who said they witnessed the spat."I have chills right now," Nina Celie Angelo told Fox News Digital Wednesday. "It's crazy because it wasn't just like we passed them on the street — it was a full blown incident."Angelo said she and her boyfriend, Matthew England, were in town for a wedding in late August.

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Doug Ford short on details for COVID-19 vaccine passport timing or financial support

With enforcement costs to implement Ontario’s vaccination certificate largely falling to municipalities, Brampton’s mayor is calling on the province to foot the bill. Premier Doug Ford couldn’t say what additional support could be coming, or how long he expects the certificate program to be in place for.

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Quebec to table bill banning anti-vaccine protests outside hospitals, schools

COVID-19 vaccine protests in front of hospitals and schools.François Legault told reporters at the National Assembly he will introduce the proposed legislation to his caucus Wednesday and then to the provincial legislature on Thursday.“It makes no sense,” he said, referring to recent anti-vaccination protests.

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Exclusive: SEPTA officer allegedly slugs rider at Frankford Transportation Center

PHILADELPHIA - A SEPTA Revenue Officer is under investigation after he was captured on video allegedly punching a man to the ground at Frankford Transportation Center earlier this week.Exclusive video of the Monday morning assault obtained by FOX 29 News shows the armed officer allegedly slug a man in the face in the concourse of the busy SEPTA stop located on the 5200 block of Frankford Avenue. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESSEPTA said in a statement that the officer is cooperating with the investigation and has been placed on "administrative duty." No information has been provided on what may have provoked the attack. This is the third investigation into an alleged assault by a SEPTA employee in the last three months.

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Canada election: Trudeau bills electoral win as ‘clear mandate’ in speech to supporters

Speaking to Liberal party faithful early on Tuesday morning, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau said the outcome of the 2021 election represented, in his opinion, a “clear mandate” from Canadians as he returns to office for a third time, though in a second minority parliament.

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Liberals projected to form minority government

Justin Trudeau is now projected to hold onto his role as prime minister — but Canadians appear to have voted in the federal election on Monday to keep requiring him to work with the other parties in order to govern in a second minority government.The decision by voters returns the Liberals to power but does not grant them the four years of stability and power that a majority win would have conferred.

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Fire at Georgetown pet boarding-facility kills all 75 animals inside

GEORGETOWN, Texas - Georgetown Fire confirms 75 dogs were killed in a fire at the Ponderosa Pet Resort Saturday night. Many of those dogs' photos are now hung up on the front gates of where the fire happened. Saturday night the Georgetown Fire Department responded to a fire at the pet resort and found the entire building engulfed in flames.

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Mother seriously injured after driver slams into school bus in Pennsauken, NJ

PENNSAUKEN, N.J. - Police in Pennsauken say they arrested a man after he crashed his car into a school bus that was dropping off students. A mother who was picking up her daughter from the bus stop was seriously injured. Miguel Montes just returned from the hospital where his wife is facing a very different and very difficult future. "This is a dangerous intersection, a lot of things happen here," he said.

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Why Hispanic Heritage Month begins in the middle of September

U.S. National Archives. The observation was first recognized by President Lyndon B.

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Canada’s inflation rate reached 4.1% in August, highest since 2003

inflation rate reached 4.1 per cent in August, the fastest pace since March 2003, Statistics Canada said on Wednesday. This was up from 3.7 per cent in July.The increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the result of both price pressures and the comparison with low price levels in 2020, the agency said.Fuelling much of the rise was higher gasoline and housing prices compared with the same month one year ago.

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Experts predict big jump in grocery bills across Canada

Global News business reporter, Anne Gaviola, has tips for Canadian households to help manage food inflation that is expected to balloon by $700 dollars or more this year.

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Free rides take $104M toll on Pennsylvania Turnpike finances

CARLISLE, Pa. - More than $104 million in Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls went uncollected last year as the agency fully converted to all-electronic tolling, with the millions of motorists who don't use E-ZPass having a nearly 1 in 2 chance of riding without paying under the "toll-by-plate" license plate camera system.An internal turnpike report issued in July and obtained by The Associated Press through a Right-to-Know Law request showed nearly 11 million out of the total of about 170 million turnpike rides generated no revenue for the agency in the year that ended May 31."We take this issue very seriously. It is a big number, there's no question," turnpike Chief Executive Mark Compton said.

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More than $104M in Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls went uncollected last year

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Camden County couple works to keep legacy of Michael Jackson alive

WINSLOW TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Michael Jackson, The King of Pop, would be sixty-three this year if not for his death in 2012. One Camden County couple is keeping his legacy alive.

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Biden to visit Colorado Tuesday to pitch investments in clean energy

DENVER - While legislators craft the details back in Washington, President Joe Biden is pitching his massive domestic spending package with a visit to a renewable energy lab in Colorado to highlight how the investments in clean energy in his plan would help combat climate change.The trip to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Denver will cap off the president’s two-day swing to the West, and offer Biden the chance to continue linking the need to pass the spending package to the urgent threat posed by climate change.

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Manchin opposes Biden’s $3.5T spending plan, could back $1.5T instead

WASHINGTON - As the Senate returns on Monday following a summer recess, congressional Democrats pushing ahead with President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion plan for social and environmental spending — but a moderate Democrat who is key to its fate said he can’t support it.Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said the cost will need to be slashed to $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion to win his support.

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Feds haven’t ‘ruled out’ intervening against Quebec’s secularism bill, Trudeau says

Justin Trudeau says he hasn’t “ruled out” federal intervention to challenge Bill 21 in court.The contentious bill, also known as Quebec’s ‘secularism bill,’ is legislation across the province that prohibits public service workers including teachers, lawyers and police officers, from wearing religious symbols while on the job.Critics have argued that it disproportionately targets Muslim women who wear the hijab or niqab and effectively treats them and other religious minorities as second-class citizens.

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EXPLAINER: What to know about Texas' abortion law

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Biden administration is suing Texas over a new state law that bans most abortions, arguing that it was enacted "in open defiance of the Constitution" and asking a judge to quickly declare the law invalid. The case filed Thursday by the Department of Justice is almost certainly destined to reach the Supreme Court, perhaps within a matter of weeks.The high court has already been asked to weigh in on the law once.

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EMSB’s Joe Ortona speaks out on Quebec’s French language protection bill

The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) may withdraw from Bill 96 — a legislature aimed at protecting the French language in Quebec. Global’s Elizabeth Zogalis speaks with the EMSB’s Joe Ortona.

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Critics call for overhaul or end to debates commission after controversial English debate

What happened during the federal leaders’ English debate? Here are the highlights Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government created the debates commission after winning the 2015 election.In that campaign, the traditional English debate organized by a consortium of television networks, was scuppered after then-prime minister Stephen Harper refused to participate.Five other debates were held but reached far fewer viewers.Even before then, the consortium debates had been criticized for allowing the big parties to threaten non-participation in order to dictate the terms of the debates.

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The controversial Quebec question at the federal leaders’ English debate

Quebec Premier Francois Legault is demanding an apology from the moderator of Thursday’s English-language federal leaders’ debate, over a question about the province’s anti-secularism law, known as Bill 21. Mike Le Couteur explains.

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Texas teen uses TikTok to sabotage abortion whistleblower website

FORT BEND COUNTY, Texas - As the Biden administration vows to take on Texas Senate Bill 8 banning nearly all abortions in court, a Fort Bend County teen is taking on the law through TikTok.Olivia Julianna, 18, used sarcasm, her knowledge of social media, and her followers to overwhelm prolifewhistleblower.com. BACKGROUND: Texas governor signs law banning abortions as early as 6 weeksThe website was created by Texas Right to Life and allowed for anyone to submit tips about women suspected of illegally getting an abortion. Julianna encouraged her followers to submit fake tips to crash the site.

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Few options for jobless Americans after pandemic unemployment benefits expire

NEW YORK - Millions of jobless Americans lost their unemployment benefits on Monday, leaving only a handful of economic support programs for those who are still being hit financially by the year-and-a-half-old coronavirus pandemic.Two critical programs expired on Monday. One provided jobless aid to self-employed and gig workers and another provided benefits to those who have been unemployed more than six months.

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6-year-old dies on thrill ride at Colorado amusement park

A file image on the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park website shots people on the Haunted Mine Drop ride.

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Bette Midler says women should ‘refuse to have sex with men’ to protest Texas abortion law

AUSTIN, Texas - Bette Midler is calling on women to sing a different tune.The Golden Globe winner recently took to Twitter and offered one approach to protesting Senate Bill 8, a strict and controversial law that bans most abortions. It was passed through the Texas legislature in May and took effect on Wednesday."I suggest that all women refuse to have sex with men until they are guaranteed the right to choose by Congress," the 75-year-old tweeted.But someone else may have already come up with that idea."My dad actually suggested that decades ago," replied Frank Sinatra’s daughter, Nancy Sinatra.The star has used the social media platform to speak out against the decision that allowed the bill to take effect.

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O’Toole flip flops on firearm promise, says ban on ‘assault-style’ guns will stay

forms government.“I want to make my position on firearms perfectly clear. First, the ban on assault weapons will remain in place.

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‘We’re going to have your back’: Biden tours Hurricane Ida damage in Louisiana

Damaged homes in floodwater after Hurricane Ida in Pointe-Aux-Chenes, Louisiana, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021.

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NFL will allow social justice phrases on helmets this season

GLENDALE, ARIZONA - DECEMBER 07: Defensive end Kerry Hyder Jr.

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Biden touring Hurricane Ida damage in Louisiana

Damaged homes in floodwater after Hurricane Ida in Pointe-Aux-Chenes, Louisiana, U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021.

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DEADLY FLOODING: Bodies pulled, others rescued in NYC, NJ storm waters

NEW YORK - Devastating flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Ida lead to several deaths in New York City and New Jersey.The NYPD responded to multiple calls of flooding across the city late Wednesday into early Thursday where at least seven people were killed and many more were rescued.A 50-year-old man, a 48-year-old woman and a two-year-old child were found dead inside a house at 44-60 64th Street in Maspeth, Queens. Police responded to a 911 call about flooding at the home at about 10 p.m.

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Concord father reflects on 14-year-old daughter who died of fentanyl overdose

CONCORD, Calif. - International Overdose Awareness Day passes every Aug. 31, and those most acutely aware of it never expected to be.Fentanyl has added an especially deadly layer to the opioid epidemic.

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Bill would award medals to 13 US service members killed in Kabul

WASHINGTON - A total of 159 House members introduced a bill proposal that would posthumously award Congressional Gold Medals to the 13 U.S. service members killed in a pair of Kabul airport suicide bombings in August, according to a Tuesday news release. The bill, introduced by Congresswoman Lisa McClain, R-Mich., seeks to give Congress' most distinguished award to the 13 service members killed near the capital's airport. Congressional Gold Medals have been awarded throughout history to recipients as Congress’ "highest expression of national appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions," according to the U.S.

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Bills' Isaiah McKenzie gets vaccinated days after NFL fines him almost $15K for violating mask policy

ORCHARD PARK, NEW YORK - JANUARY 16: Isaiah McKenzie #19 of the Buffalo Bills walks to the field prior to an AFC Divisional Playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens at Bills Stadium on January 16, 2021 in Orchard Park, New York.

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‘March On For Voting Rights’ to take place on anniversary of MLK's 'I Have A Dream' speech

March On for Voting Rights will take place in cities across the United States on Saturday in hopes of keeping Dr. King’s dream "deferred no longer." Advocates in King’s era achieved the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — which drastically improved voter access for Black Americans.RELATED: March on Washington: Everything you need to know ahead of 58th anniversaryBut in 2013’s Shelby County v.

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