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9:25 AM ET, November 8, 2013

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Chuck Todd / U.S. News:

Exclusive: Obama personally apologizes for Americans losing health coverage — In an exclusive interview with NBC's Chuck Todd, President Obama said that he is “sorry” that some Americans are losing their current health insurance plans. “We've got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear …

Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:

I'm Sorry, Too, Mr. President — Obama apologizes for breaking promise on health care reform. — I'm sorry, too, Mr. President. — I'm sorry you couldn't finesse a single Republican vote for health insurance reform in 2010. — I'm sorry Republicans decided to re-litigate the law rather …

Discussion: Associated Press, Right Turn, The Gateway Pundit, Politico and Conservatives4Palin

Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
It's True: Obamacare Will Force Some People to Pay More for the Same Coverage

Discussion: Forbes, Hot Air, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Washington Examiner

Maxim Lott / Fox News:
White House website at odds with latest Obama statement

Discussion: Power Line

Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:

Noonan: 'I'm Gonna Be the Republican Nominee' — Mitch McConnell on the shutdown's failure, ObamaCare's future, and his own primary challenge. — Washington — It is a month since the government shutdown and a day after the election. The minority leader of the U.S. Senate …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Hot Air and First Read

Andrew Kohut / Wall Street Journal:

The GOP Is in Better Shape Than You Think — Independents favor the GOP on handling the economy by a whopping 46%-30% margin. — Tucked away in recent polls—which have documented the extraordinary anger directed at the Republican Party during the shutdown crisis—are measures of clear disappointment with the Democratic Party.

New York Times:

Accounts Differ to F.B.I. and CBS on Benghazi — Dylan Davies, a security officer hired to help protect the United States Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya, told the F.B.I. he did not go there the night terrorists attacked it on Sept. 11, 2012, an account that contradicts a version of events …

Discussion: CNN, Talking Points Memo, Liberaland, Politico, AMERICAblog News, Business Insider, The Raw Story, The Huffington Post, Capital New York and Little Green Footballs, more at Mediagazer »

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

Joe Biden Called A Second Wrong Number Searching For Boston Mayor-Elect Marty Walsh — WASHINGTON — If your phone number has a 617 area code, check your messages — there's a chance you got a call from Joe Biden Tuesday night. — That's because the vice president was having all sorts …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Michael Levenson / The Boston Globe:
Vice President Biden congratulates the wrong Martin Walsh

Discussion: Hot Air and Boston Globe

Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:

Fraternity Pledge Loses Testicle In Hazing Ritual — Ohio cops probe battering in basement of “Gobbler House” — Ohio cops are investigating a college fraternity hazing incident that left a 19-year-old pledge short one testicle, records show. — Three Wilmington College students seeking induction …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Raw Story, Liberaland and Balloon Juice

New York Times:

$10 Minimum Wage Proposal Has Growing Support From White House — The White House has thrown its weight behind a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to at least $10 an hour. — “The president has long supported raising the minimum wage so hard-working Americans can have a decent wage …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo and Post Politics

Ted Barrett / CNN:
Senate's Reid wants to pass minimum wage hike this month

Discussion: Politico, Hot Air and PoliticusUSA

ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Senate Passes LGBT Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA)

Discussion: aflcio.org

Jenn Taylor / Twitchy:

Freak-out in full swing over ‘rich, white’ racists mocking Obamacare at the CMAs — Once again, Twitter was prescient. — After Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood mocked Obamacare on the CMA Awards, whiners immediately twisted their knickers over the stars who “slandered” Obamacare.

Discussion: Mediaite, Weasel Zippers and Washington Free Beacon

Sasha Bogursky / Fox News:
CMA Awards 2013: Country singers rip ObamaCare website, ‘Duck Dynasty’ stars surprise with ‘Blurred Lines’ cover

Discussion: Firedoglake, Scared Monkeys and Politico

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

The Mutilated Economy — Five years and eleven months have now passed since the U.S. economy entered recession. Officially, that recession ended in the middle of 2009, but nobody would argue that we've had anything like a full recovery. Official unemployment remains high …

Sarah Posner / Mother Jones:

George W. Bush to Raise Money for Group That Converts Jews to Bring About Second Coming of Christ — The former president follows in the footsteps of Glenn Beck, who addressed the group last year. — Courtesy of Messianic Jewish Bible Institute — Next week, former President George W. Bush …

Discussion: Salon, Trail Blazers Blog, Talking Points Memo, American Prospect, Balloon Juice, Booman Tribune, Washington Monthly and Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Frank Newport / Gallup:

Most Uninsured Americans Ignoring Health Exchange Sites — Three in 10 are familiar with the exchanges — PRINCETON, NJ — In the midst of widespread news coverage of problems with the federal health exchange website, relatively few uninsured Americans (18%) — the primary target population …

Discussion: Politico, First Read and Right Wing News

Tal Kopan / Politico:

Bill O'Reilly: Chris Christie won't do my show — Fox News host Bill O'Reilly complained Friday that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie refuses to appear on his show. — “He won't submit to an interview with me,” O'Reilly said on “CBS This Morning.” “Christie will not. He just won't do it.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

New York Times:

Hollywood's Ready to Cast Clinton in Top Role — LOS ANGELES — In the prelude to the 2008 Democratic presidential primary season, the split between the Hollywood mogul David Geffen and Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton represented an early and embarrassing sign of trouble for Mrs. Clinton.

Discussion: ABC News

Food and Drug Administration:

FDA takes step to further reduce trans fats in processed foods — Reducing trans fat intake could prevent thousands of heart attacks and deaths — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced its preliminary determination that partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), the primary dietary source …

Discussion: CBS DC, ThinkProgress and White House.gov Blog

FDA Consumer Health Information Updates:
FDA Targets Trans Fat in Processed Foods

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Firedoglake, CBS New York, DCist, The Verge and New York Times

Kate Nocera / BuzzFeed:

Social Conservatives Flummoxed By Senate GOP Silence On LGBT Anti-Bias Bill — It's inexcusable that no Republican senators are willing to stand up and defend the Constitution," said the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer. Only one GOP senator spoke out against the legislation.

Discussion: Daily Kos, Hit & Run, Dependable Renegade and Campaign for America's Future

Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:

Ken Cuccinelli urged to run for Senate — It's only been hours since Republican Ken Cuccinelli narrowly lost his bid for governor to Democrat Terry McAuliffe, but some conservatives are now arguing that Cuccinelli should turn his focus to a 2014 Senate campaign.

Discussion: MASON CONSERVATIVE and No More Mister Nice Blog

Jon Erdman / National and Local Weather Forecast …:

Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) Moving Into the Philippines — While the Atlantic hurricane season may have taken its last breath, that is certainly not the case in the western Pacific Ocean. The most powerful tropical cyclone of 2013 anywhere on Earth is raging toward the Philippines.

Discussion: CBS DC

Jethro Mullen / CNN:
Super Typhoon Haiyan, strongest storm of the year, heads for central Philippines

Discussion: Guardian, Mashable, NBCNews and ThinkProgress

Ari Fleischer / Politico:

Why the House must pass ENDA — On Thursday, the U.S. Senate passed legislation to protect gay employees from job discrimination with an overwhelming bipartisan vote. Republicans should support these protections, and I hope the GOP leadership in the House schedules the bill for a vote.

Discussion: The Plum Line and Talking Points Memo