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Why Medicare wants you to start thinking about how you’d like to die

Under current Medicare regulations, end-of-life planning cannot be the sole purpose of a patient’s visit. But a proposed plan would reimburse medical professionals for appointments dedicated to end-of-life care planning, allowing doctors to take the lead in starting conversations with patients and creating a healthier nationwide dialogue about death.

 
Someone in Hollywood is having a great year, and it’s not Disney

It’s hard to believe that in a year where Disney’s movie lineup includes an Avengers sequel, two Pixar releases and “Star Wars: Episode VII” that another studio might still come out on top as 2015’s overall box-office champ.

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Ambush that killed two Metro cops in 2014 lasted 4 seconds, testimony shows

Jerad and Amanda Miller were defiant until the very end. Cornered after slaying three people and expecting their own deaths, the couple kept up the police-hating rhetoric investigators would later find immortalized in a self-glorifying shrine.

 
Inmate’s survivors sue police over fatal struggle in jail

A second civil rights lawsuit has been filed by survivors of an inmate who died after a 2013 struggle with officers at the Clark County Detention Center.

 
Metro officer shot near Rainbow and Alta; 2 people in custody

A Las Vegas police officer shot before daylight Friday came through surgery fine, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said, but one man’s wound leaves a mark on the whole department.

 
Here’s the latest on the European refugee crisis — VIDEO

Europe is in the midst of an unprecedented human migration. Fleeing war, fearing for their life and dreaming of a better life far from the poverty and upheaval of their unstable nations, hundreds of thousands are flocking to Europe’s shores.

 
Transgender teen’s bathroom use dividing Mo. high school

Missouri transgender teen Lila Perry began to feel like a girl when she was 13 and started appearing as one in school this year when classes began in August.

 
Thousands gather to honor Texas deputy shot to death

Hundreds of mourners gathered Friday to give a final salute to a deputy sheriff shot to death last week while fueling his patrol car near Houston.

 
Cop fired after Nazi salute photo from KKK rally surfaces

A Louisiana police detective was fired this week after a local newspaper showed a photo of him giving a Nazi salute while wearing a Ku Klux Klan crest at what was described as a rally.

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