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 …

4 Dead in Metro-North Train Derailment in the Bronx  —  At least four people were killed after a Metro-North Railroad train derailed Sunday morning in the Bronx along the Hudson River, officials said.  —  A total of 67 people were injured — 11 critically — a New York Fire Department spokesman, Jim Long, said.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.”

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.

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 …

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.) …

Paul Walker Dead — ‘Fast and The Furious’ Star Dies in Fiery Car Crash  —  DEAD AT 40 IN FIERY CAR CRASH  —  EXCLUSIVE  —  Paul Walker — best known for his role in “The Fast and the Furious” movies — died Saturday afternoon after a single-car accident and explosion in Southern California ... TMZ has learned.

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.