O-Care premiums to skyrocket  —  Health industry officials say ObamaCare-related premiums will double in some parts of the country, countering claims recently made by the administration.  —  The expected rate hikes will be announced in the coming months amid an intense election year, when control of the Senate is up for grabs.

President Obama's Final 4 revealed  —  President Barack Obama, the nation's first basketball fan, took marker to bracket with ESPN again at the White House and selected defending tournament champion Louisville, No. 1 overall seed Florida, top seed Arizona and Michigan State to advance to this year's NCAA men's Final Four.

Greens pressure Obama to reject expansion of natural gas exports  —  Environmental groups called on President Obama Tuesday to reject pending applications to build liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals, citing the negative impacts from natural gas throughout its life cycle.

Throw the lead to November  —  In early February this year, I wrote a column for The Hill in which I tried to talk Democrats off the cliff.  I warned them against having such a gloomy outlook for November.  To tell you the truth, though, when I saw the result from the Florida special election last Tuesday …

White House's Top Pastry Chef to Leave Post  —  WASHINGTON — The first lady, Michelle Obama, is soon to lose her executive pastry chef, Bill Yosses.  And she is partly to blame.  —  She has piqued his interest in the relationship between food and health, he said in a recent telephone interview …

CNN's Ratings Surge Covering the Mystery of the Missing Airliner  —  On CNN, the plane rises from misty clouds accompanied by an eerie background score while anchors offer intriguing details — some new, some days old — of the disappearance of Flight 370.  The reports, broadcast continually …

How to Raise Americans' Wages  —  Eight proposals to jump-start the incomes of workers.  —  Once upon a time in a faraway land—the United States following World War II—workers reaped what they sowed.  From 1947 through 1973, their income rose in lockstep with increases in productivity.

Scientists Sound Alarm on Climate  —  Early in his career, a scientist named Mario J. Molina was pulled into seemingly obscure research about strange chemicals being spewed into the atmosphere.  Within a year, he had helped discover a global environmental emergency, work that would ultimately win a Nobel Prize.

Cuomo's grasp of public opinion leaves de Blasio looking dumb  —  Is anybody looking dumber than Bill de Blasio right about now?  —  Tuesday's Quinnipiac University poll gave him a 45 percent public-approval rating, down from 53 percent in January.  This is consistent with earlier surveys, and it is astonishingly low for a new mayor.

Chris Christie town hall disrupted by protesters again  —  SOUTH RIVER — A group of Rutgers University students, as well as union representatives, were kicked out of a town hall meeting with Gov. Chris Christie today.  —  The group rose up in unison after Christie finished answering …

Ken Langone Apologizes For Comments Linking Fight Against Income Inequality To The Nazis (UPDATED)  —  Kenneth Langone has issued a statement apologizing for his comments linking the progressive's strategy to fight income inequality to Nazi Germany.  —  “My remarks were intended …

Crimea crisis: Fears of war grow after Ukrainian officer is killed at military base in Simferopol  —  In an extraordinary day which redrew the map of Europe, fears were growing that widespread violence would erupt in the aftermath of Russia's annexation of Crimea.

Introducing ‘AnonyWatch’: Tracking Nameless Quotations in The Times  —  This post is the inaugural edition of an effort to point out some of the more regrettable examples of anonymous quotations in The Times.  I've written about this from time to time, as have my predecessors, to no little or no avail.

America's Internet Surrender  —  By unilaterally retreating from online oversight, the White House pleased regimes that want to control the Web.  —  The Internet is often described as a miracle of self-regulation, which is almost true.  The exception is that the United States government has had ultimate control from the beginning.

Meet Cloak, the ‘antisocial’ network that helps you avoid people  —  We have myriad tech-enabled ways to encounter friends (and strangers!) in real life.  We can check in on Foursquare.  Tag a location on Instagram.  Swipe on Tinder.  Tweet, from just about anywhere.

When Living Wage Is Minimum Wage  —  A generation ago, people making the minimum wage were largely teenagers.  Today, as President Obama pushes to give 25 million low-wage workers a raise, that's no longer true.  —  The minimum wage debate hinges on an essential question: Who would be affected by an increase?

U.S. Prosecutors in New Jersey Sought Port Authority Records on Bridge Contracts  —  Federal prosecutors in New Jersey subpoenaed records last week relating to potential conflicts of interest involving the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey chairman, David Samson …