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10:25 AM ET, December 1, 2013

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TMZ.com:
Paul Walker Dead — ‘Fast and The Furious’ Star Dies in Fiery Car Crash  —  DEAD AT 40 IN FIERY CAR CRASH  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  7:15 PM PT — Paul's rep just released a statement about his death, and says “He was a passenger in a friend's car, in which both lost their lives.”
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Cary Osborne / signalscv.com:
Actor Paul Walker killed in Valencia car crash  —  Two people were killed Saturday afternoon when a Porsche sports car crashed and burst into flames in Valencia, and the passenger was actor Paul Walker, his publicist confirmed to the Associated Press  —  “Sadly I have to confirm that Paul Walker …
ABC 7 Eyewitness News:
Metro-North train derails in the Bronx  —  mass transit, train accident, metro north, abc7 traffic center  —  NEW YORK (WABC) — Authorities say a Metro-North train has derailed in the Bronx, and multiple injuries are reported.  —  It happened at 7:20 Sunday morning at Palisades Avenue …
New York Times:
Inside the Race to Rescue a Health Care Site, and Obama  —  WASHINGTON — As a small coterie of grim-faced advisers shuffled into the Oval Office on the evening of Oct. 15, President Obama's chief domestic accomplishment was falling apart 24 miles away, at a bustling high-tech data center in suburban Virginia.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Business Insider
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Puerto Rico, with at least $70 billion in debt, confronts a rising economic misery  —  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Boxes and wooden crates filled with household items bound for the U.S. mainland are stacked high in the Rosa del Monte moving company's cavernous warehouse, evidence of the historic rush …
Washington Post:
HealthCare.gov will meet deadline for fixes, White House officials say  —  Administration officials are preparing to announce Sunday that they have met their Saturday deadline for improving HealthCare.gov, according to government officials, in part by expanding the site's capacity so that it can handle 50,000 users at once.
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New York Times:
Health Care Site Rushing to Make Fixes by Sunday
Steve Coll / New Yorker:
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.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
P.J. O'Rourke / Wall Street Journal:
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.
NY Daily News:
Elderly woman could be city's 10th ‘knockout game’ victim  —  Yvonne Small, 76, fell to the ground after being punched by her assailant on Alabama Ave. and Wortman Ave. in East New York about 11:35 a.m.  —  The New York City Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in identifying …
Brett Norman / Politico:
Administration readies for crucial website update  —  The Obamacare website slipped by a key repair deadline Saturday with little fanfare or protest, but the scrutiny will be intense Sunday as the Obama administration gives its first account of version 2.0.  —  White House officials …
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
Eye on 2016, Clintons Rebuild Bond With Blacks  —  Inside Bright Hope Baptist Church, the luminaries of Philadelphia's black political world gathered for the funeral of former Representative William H. Gray III in July.  Dozens of politicians — city, state and federal …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Save America: Restore the draft  —  At this time of Thanksgiving, I'm grateful for the U.S. military — not just for the usual reason that it protects us from our foes but also because it has the potential to save us from ourselves.  —  As I make my rounds each day in the capital …
 
 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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