Healthcare plan enrollment surges in some states after rocky rollout  —  Healthcare insurance enrollment increases in some states that run their own exchanges, boosting hopes of Obamacare backers.  —  Peter Lee, director of the Covered California health insurance exchange, discusses enrollment.

State Rep. Uses Sledgehammer To Destroy Homeless People's Possessions  —  State Rep. Tom Brower (D) destroying a homeless person's possessions.  —  Much like Batkid, Hawaii has found its own superhero.  Except that instead of protecting the powerless from harm, he roams the streets …

Va. Sen. Creigh Deeds Stabbed in Bath County Home  —  Sources say Deeds' son stabbed his father, then shot himself  —  Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds was stabbed by his son, Austin “Gus” Deeds, before the son fatally shot himself, Democratic sources tell News4.

Census ‘faked’ 2012 election jobs report  —  In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington.  —  The decline — from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September — might not have been all it seemed.

No, Arne Duncan, ‘White Suburban Moms’ Aren't The Problem.  (But you might be)  —  Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their “critical thinking.”  —  That didn't stop Education …

Monty Python to reunite for stage show  —  All of the surviving members of comedy group Monty Python are to reform for a stage show, one of the Pythons, Terry Jones, has confirmed.  —  “We're getting together and putting on a show - it's real,” Jones told the BBC.  —  “I'm quite excited about it.

Chris Christie Knocks GOP, Says Washington Is Full of ‘Absolutists’  —  WASHINGTON — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had some harsh words for Washington, D.C. Monday night, telling a group of CEOs that “both parties” in Washington are the problem, but still harshly criticizing the GOP …

Tech chief: 30% of Obamacare IT needs to be built  —  A key official in the development of the Obamacare website said he never saw documents warning about potential stumbles and admitted Tuesday that a sizable portion of its IT support has yet to be built.  —  Centers for Medicare …

Phil Gingrey's top staffers resign campaign  —  The Phil Gingrey's campaign for U.S. Senate took a blow on Monday, as four top staffers resigned.  —  General consultant Chip Lake, who once served as chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, confirmed his departure via email.

DHS Still Hasn't Fired Black Supremacist Who Called for Mass Murder of Whites  —  Almost four months after he was unmasked as a militant black nationalist who called for murdering “Uncle Tom race traitors,” Ayo Kimathi is still employed.  —  The black-nationalist Department of Homeland Security employee …