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12:10 AM ET, November 5, 2013

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Lori Ziganto / Twitchy:
Despicable: WH smears cancer survivor who lost her insurance plan due to Obamacare  —  That can't be true, can it? … Yes.  Yes it is.  Check out Dan Pfeiffer's despicable tweet posted via his official White House Twitter account. … Beyond repugnant.  As Twitchy reported, Edie Littlefield Sundby is a Stage IV cancer survivor.
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
A dishonest presidency  —  The Wall Street Journal broke the news this weekend that, even as President Obama was telling the American people they could keep their health plans, “some White House policy advisors objected to the breadth of Mr. Obama's ‘keep your plan’ promise.  They were overruled by political aides.”
Roberta Rampton / Reuters:
In political messaging wars, White House deploys a Twitter army
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Two Days until Brief Explosion of Christie Mania  —  Only two states, New Jersey and Virginia, hold their gubernatorial elections in odd years.  Since there's generally a dearth of other political news at that time, Washington-based reporters usually decide that whoever got elected in Virginia …
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Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Democratic poll: Gun issue helps Terry McAuliffe
Politico:
Final sprint in Election 2013
Discussion: CNN, Guardian and Hullabaloo
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Biden frames Virginia governor's election as race against the tea party
Discussion: protein wisdom and Hot Air
Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog:
WHAT EDIE SUNDBY LEFT OUT OF THAT WALL STREET JOURNAL OP-ED  —  The Wall Street Journal has published a health care op-ed that's getting a great deal of attention.  It's by a California woman named Edie Littlefield Sundby, who's been fighting stage-4 gallbladder cancer for seven years …
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ThinkProgress:
The Real Reason That The Cancer Patient Writing In Today's Wall Street Journal Lost Her Insurance  —  Monday's Wall Street Journal features an op-ed from Eddie Littlefield Sundby, a stage-4 gallbladder cancer survivor who won't be able to keep the coverage she currently has.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
House GOP regresses on gay rights  —  Today John Boehner declared he opposes the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and senior House GOP aides said the bill is unlikely to get a House vote — putting its passage in doubt.  —  So perhaps it's worth recalling some historical context …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
John Boehner Opposes ENDA, Dealing Blow To Bill's Chances
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Gay rights bill poised to advance in Senate
Discussion: Mediaite
Ariel Edwards-Levy / The Huffington Post:
Wendy Davis Trails By Single Digits In Texas Governor's Race  —  Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) is running just 6 percentage points behind state Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) in the 2014 governor's race, according to an online University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll released Monday.
Discussion: Liberaland
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Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Study: 8.8 Billion Earth-size, Just-right Planets  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Space is vast, but it may not be so lonely after all: A study finds the Milky Way is teeming with billions of planets that are about the size of Earth, orbit stars just like our sun, and exist in the Goldilocks zone — not too hot and not too cold for life.
Discussion: Liberaland
Associated Press:
Lawmakers push to keep Obama's health care pledge  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Little more than a week after millions of consumers received health care cancellation notices, lawmakers in both parties are pushing legislation to redeem President Barack Obama's long-ago pledge that anyone liking …
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Simon Romero / New York Times:
Brazil Acknowledges Spying on Diplomatic Targets  —  RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil's government acknowledged on Monday that its top intelligence agency had spied on diplomatic targets from countries including the United States, Iran and Russia, putting Brazilian authorities in the uncomfortable position …
Sarah Boseley / Guardian:
CIA made doctors torture suspected terrorists after 9/11, taskforce finds  —  Doctors were asked to torture detainees for intelligence gathering, and unethical practices continue, review concludes  —  Doctors and psychologists working for the US military violated the ethical codes …
BBC:
‘Three killed’ in Norway bus hijack  —  A man wielding a knife has hijacked a bus in Norway and killed three passengers, media reports say.  —  The suspect, said to be in his 50s and of foreign origin, has been arrested, police told Norway's TV2 news channel.  —  The victims included the driver of the bus.
ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Supreme Court Dismisses Major Attack On Abortion Rights  —  In an important, if likely temporary, victory for abortion rights, the Supreme Court took a major abortion case off its docket on Monday.  The Court's brief order does not explain the justices' reason for doing so …
Journalism.org:
Twitter News Consumers: Young, Mobile and Educated  —  Nearly one-in-ten U.S. adults (8%) get news through Twitter, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center, in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.  Compared with the 30% of Americans who get news on Facebook …
Tim Cavanaugh / The Daily Caller:
Twitter keeps suspending account critical of Obamacare  —  Twitter has repeatedly suspended an account critical of the Affordable Care Act.  —  The account, @mycancellation, was just getting started when Twitter suspended it—twice—before reinstating the account late Saturday night.
Discussion: VodkaPundit and The Jawa Report
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Sen. Mark Kirk Gives First Floor Speech Since His Stroke, Addresses LGBT Bill  —  The Republican Illinois senator has been recovering from a stroke he suffered in January 2012, but he took to the Senate floor Monday to discuss his support for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
Discussion: Daily Kos and ThinkProgress
David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
How Chris Christie is Winning Over Hispanics  —  The New Jersey governor is doing something few Republicans have managed to do: He's getting the Hispanic vote.  What the GOP can learn from him.  —  ¿Chris Christie, sí que puede?  —  It certainly looks that way …
Discussion: Business Insider, NBCNews and The Dish
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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  November 4, 2013 - Christie Up 2-1 In New Jersey …
 
 
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
NY-19: TNR turns down anti-Eldridge ad
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SAC Capital Agrees to Plead Guilty to Insider Trading
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Nina Golgowski / NY Daily News:
Video captures moment Georgia man lit his wife on fire while playing with a lighter at gas station: police
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Liberaland
Meaghan Norman / WIS-TV:
Midlands man has personal information compromised on healthcare.gov
Financial Times:
US public investment falls to lowest level since war
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
Southern National Guards tell Hagel to take a hike on gay troop spouse IDs
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 Earlier Items: 
David A. Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Agencies can't always tell who's dead and who's not, so benefit checks keep coming
John Cassidy / New Yorker:
LIBERAL AGENDAS  —  New York is often described as a liberal city …
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Tea Party Express To Endorse Candidate Who Attended Neo-Confederate Event
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors
Brian Beutler / Salon:
GOP's humiliating new predicament: Why it may have to fund the law it hates!
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Calling America: Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?
Un Bylined / Bangor Daily News:
Mike Michaud: Yes, I am gay. ‘But why should it matter?’
 

 
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UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

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Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

 
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