The Biggest News in the Healthcare.gov Report: Just How Bad It Was  —  Federal officials said Sunday they had achieved their goal of making Healthcare.gov work smoothly for the vast majority of users.  —  “The site is now stable and operating at its intended capacity,” …

GOP Credits Rosa Parks For ‘Ending Racism’  —  The Republican National Committee celebrated the 58th anniversary of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, by proclaiming in a tweet that racism has ended: … Racism, of course …

The Pope and the Right  —  “NOW it's your turn to be part of the loyal opposition,” a fellow Catholic journalist said to me earlier this year, as Pope Francis's agenda was beginning to take shape.  —  The friend was a political liberal and lifelong Democrat, accustomed to being on the wrong side …

Plouffe: Obamacare Will Work Even Better In 2017  —  David Plouffe, former top adviser to President Obama, said on Sunday that the health care law will improve with age and that it may take years for the law to work at its best.  —  “It may take until 2017,” he said on ABC's “This Week.”

4 dead, more than 60 injured in NYC train derail nightmare  —  Emergency workers remove a body from a derailed Metro-North train in The Bronx.  —  John Roca  —  A Metro-North passenger train derailed on a curved section of track in the Bronx on Sunday morning, killing four people …

Putting Military Pay on the Table  —  Big-ticket weapons like aircraft carriers and the F-35 fighter jet have to be part of any conversation about cutting Pentagon spending to satisfy the mandatory budget reductions known as the sequester.  But compensation for military personnel has to be on the table …

5-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots Himself With Handgun  —  A five-year old accidentially shot himself in the hip with a handgun kept in a bedroom on Saturday in Manchester, N.H., according to the New Hampshire Union Leader.  —  The boy used the gun of Sonday Bishop, who lives with the child …

Fmr U.S. Sen. Bob Smith changes mind, will challenge Shaheen  —  Former New Hampshire Republican senator Bob Smith said he has changed his mind and will try to defeat Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen for his old seat next year.  —  Smith told WMUR Political Scoop on Sunday …

The Boomer Bust  —  Here we are in the baby boom cosmos.  What have we wrought?  —  The Baby Boom generation spans eighteen years.  Already, the earliest boomers have reached retirement age.  Many are getting more conservative as they get older.  WSJ's Jason Bellini reports.

More liberal, populist movement emerging in Democratic Party ahead of 2016 elections  —  For more than two years, President Obama has endorsed reducing Social Security payments as part of an ambitious deal to tame the national debt.  But then Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) …

HIGHER CALLING  —  In 2005, Alaska Airlines fired nearly five hundred union baggage handlers in Seattle and replaced them with contractors.  The old workers earned about thirteen dollars an hour; the new ones made around nine.  The restructuring was a common episode in America's recent experience of inequality.

Rogers: Obama administration ‘screwed up’ Syria deal  —  Washington (CNN) - Two and a half months after the U.S. backed off its threat to launch a bombing campaign against the Syrian regime, not everyone in Congress is happy with the easing of tensions.  —  In an interview that aired Sunday morning …