A.M. Links: Obamacare May Have Hit 7 Million Mark, NATO Planning Military Exercises in Ukraine, Microbes May Have Caused Mass Extinction

Obamacare may
have hit the original target of 7 million enrollees, though how
many have paid remains to be seen. Open enrollment is “closed”

but users can still enroll if they claim they’ve tried to
enroll before the period closed. Up to three quarters of previously
insured Americans who enrolled through Obamacare could be seeing

higher premiums.
The FBI is
reportedly looking for an Army recruit who may be planning a
Fort Hood-inspired attack on U.S. soldiers.
The Transportation Department is requiring cars and light
trucks built after
May 1, 2018, to include rearview cameras.
NATO is planning a series of joint military exercises in and
with
Ukraine.
Australia sent a flying air traffic controller to the
Indian Ocean to prevent a crash among the many aircraft looking
for wreckage of Malaysian Flight 370. Malaysian authorities,
meanwhile,
released transcripts of the flight that indicate the final words
from the plane were the mundane “Good night Malaysian three seven
zero” and not the “all right, good night” authorities previously
reported.
Mozilla and its browser,
Firefox, are under fire from some critics because the company’s
new CEO once donated money to an anti-gay marriage initiative.
Methane producing microbes may have been responsible for the
extinction of the vast majority of life on Earth 250
million years ago, according to an MIT study.