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12:45 AM ET, November 26, 2013

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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Republicans mindlessly oppose Iran nuclear deal  —  Republicans are opposed to President Obama's deal with the Iranians — whatever it is.  —  A couple of minutes after 9 p.m. on Saturday, word crossed the news wires that negotiators in Geneva had reached an agreement on Iran's nuclear program.
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Alex Kane / Mondoweiss:
(Updated) Senator Chuck Schumer promises more Iran sanctions, vows to ‘defeat’ Arab world and Palestinians  —  New York Senator Chuck Schumer was his usual hawkish self on Sunday evening.  In an address to the OHEL Children's Home and Family Services gala, Schumer railed against the deal …
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Deal or No Deal  —  The final details of a nuclear agreement signed over the weekend between Iran and Western nations will not actually go into effect until further negotiations take place at a later date, according to a senior administration official and sources on Capitol Hill.
Noah Millman / The American Conservative:
The Obama Legacy: Iran vs. Healthcare.gov
Discussion: Firedoglake and Washington Monthly
Tracy Connor / NBCNews:
Steubenville case: Four more charged, including superintendent, volunteer coach  —  An Ohio grand jury investigating an alleged cover-up in the Steubenville rape case has indicted four more people, including the school superintendent and an assistant football coach.
Discussion: The Raw Story
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Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Four Adults Charged With Helping Cover Up The Steubenville Rape Case  —  CREDIT: AP Photo/Steubenville Herald-Star, Michael D. McElwain  —  On Monday, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine announced that the grand jury investigating the Steubenville rape case has charged four adults in the community …
Discussion: NPR, RH Reality Check and Shakesville
Nick Dutton / WTVR-TV:
School superintendent, others indicted in Steubenville rape case
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
CNN:
Four more school employees charged in Steubenville rape case
Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Obamacare deadline tests Dem patience  —  Some Capitol Hill Democrats are preparing to launch broadsides against President Barack Obama if the Affordable Care Act website isn't fixed by the end of the month.  —  That will come in the form of more aggressive scrutiny in Republican-led oversight hearings …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, WJLA-TV and The Week
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
HealthCare.gov won't be perfect on Dec. 1, administration says  —  Administration officials said Monday that some visitors to ObamaCare's federal enrollment site would experience outages, slow response times or messages to try again later during the month of December.
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
No, the Failure of Obamacare Would Not Lead to Single-Payer  —  More than a few conservatives are of the opinion that should the Affordable Care Act fail to achieve its goals, it would make the adoption of single-payer health insurance in the United States more likely.
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Economics Policies for the 21st Century:
No Grounds for Claim that Obamacare Lowers Healthcare Costs
Discussion: National Review
Nancy Folbre / Economix:
The Single-Payer Alternative  —  Nancy Folbre is professor emerita …
Discussion: Corrente
Brian Beutler / Salon:
Right-wing extremists face new moral conundrum  —  When Healthcare.gov actually starts working, GOP will have to choose between politics or their constituents' health  —  The confluence of two pieces of news last week will place Republicans at a moral crossroads — either by this weekend …
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Franklin Foer / The New Republic:
Obamacare's Threat to Liberalism
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Top U.S. hospital laying off staff due to Obamacare
Discussion: The Impolitic and BizPac Review
The White House:
Remarks by the President on Immigration Reform — San Francisco, CA  —  THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody!  (Applause.)  Well, hello, San Francisco!  (Applause.)  It is great to be back in California.  It is great to be with all of you.  I love San Francisco.  (Applause.)  You got great food.
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Obama Engages Anti-Deportation Heckler At Immigration Speech
Politico:
Chilling new details in Sandy Hook shooting  —  With no co-conspirators identified, Sedensky said no criminal charges will be filed.  AP Photo  —  Close  —  The 48-page report lays out the horror of Sandy Hook Elementary School in methodical detail.  It's all there: The sound of crashing glass …
Discussion: One Newtown
Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Creigh Deeds: ‘I am alive for a reason’  —  Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds says he's “alive for a reason” in his first comments to the media following an altercation at his residence last week where he suffered multiple stab wounds to the head and torso and his son killed himself with a rifle.
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
The dirty secrets behind Boehner's ‘spiking’ Obamacare premiums  —  Speaker John Boehner, grappling with Obamacare.  (House of Representatives)  —  Perhaps in an effort to defuse reports that House Speaker John Boehner is making out pretty well as a first-time insurance customer under …
Yahoo:
Welcome aboard, Katie.  Anchors aweigh!  —  Today, I am incredibly excited to announce that Katie Couric is joining Yahoo as our Global Anchor.  Starting in early 2014, Katie will lead a growing team of correspondents at Yahoo News who will cover the world's most interesting stories and newsmakers.
Ryan Cooper / Washington Monthly:
What If There Simply Aren't More Antibiotics to be Discovered?  —  Antibiotic resistance, like climate change, is one of those issues that has been blinking red on the world's dashboard for decades.  Everyone agrees it's potentially disastrous—in fact, has already reached crisis stage in some areas …
ProPublica:
New Tax Return Shows Karl Rove's Group Spent Even More On Politics Than It Said  —  On its 2012 tax return, GOP strategist Karl Rove's dark money behemoth Crossroads GPS justified its status as a tax-exempt social welfare group in part by citing its grants of $35 million to other similarly aligned nonprofits.
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
GOP Rep. Kingston: Not ‘responsible’ to let ObamaCare fail  —  A Republican lawmaker running for Senate in Georgia is calling for improvements to ObamaCare, breaking with his party's proclaimed policy to simply let the law self-destruct.  —  Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) on Monday questioned whether …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Joe Biden / TIME:
Before we stuff ourselves with stuffing and trim the tree this Thanksgiving, TIME asks some public figures—from Michelle Obama to Rick Warren to our astronauts orbiting Earth—to share what they're grateful for.  —  My dad used to have an expression.  He said, “It's a lucky person who gets …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and CNN
Molly Redden / Mother Jones:
New Warning: Morning-After Pill Doesn't Work for Women Over 176 Pounds  —  The European manufacturer of a pill identical to Plan B says its product won't work for women who weigh more than 176 pounds.  Will American pharma companies warn women of weight limits?  —  Maybe not as effective as you think.
 
 
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Julia Ioffe / The New Republic:
A 31-Year-Old Is Tearing Apart the Heritage Foundation
Michael J. Totten / Michael J. Totten's blog:
Welcome to Cuba  —  Fidel Castro made a liar out of me.
Discussion: VodkaPundit, Ed Driscoll and Samizdata
New York Times:
Understanding the Deal With Iran
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid: Senate will consider stronger sanctions against Iran after break
Joy Pullmann / The Federalist:
Common Core: The Biggest Election Issue Washington Prefers to Ignore
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Cutbacks Shut Hospitals Where Medicaid Went Unexpanded
Discussion: Daily Kos and ThinkProgress
Deirdre Walsh / CNN:
House GOP leader becomes only Member of Congress to give birth three times in office
Discussion: Politico
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Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
Teen Jailed At Rikers For 3 Years Without Conviction Or Trial
Discussion: Global Grind and Hullabaloo
Chicago Tribune:
Employers could drop health care
Discussion: PERRspectives, Hot Air and AEIdeas
Mark Joseph / USA Today:
No, Oprah, America isn't racist: Column
Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Herring wins Virginia attorney general race, elections board announces
Adam Harrington / CBS New York:
Video Shows Monticello Mayor Cursing, Breaking Clock After DWI Arrest
Discussion: Mediaite and The Raw Story
Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story:
Noam Chomsky slaps down 9/11 truther: People spend an hour on the Internet and think they know physics
Discussion: Mediaite
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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