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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Sign-Up Period Extended Again for Health Plan — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Tuesday that it would provide more time for people to complete their applications for health insurance if they could show that they missed the deadline because of problems with the federal health care website.
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Joanne Kenen / Politico:
HHS offers help for people who miss Obamacare deadline — People who can't finish the online signup for Obamacare health insurance by midnight today because of website problems can seek extra time to finalize their application and still get covered by Jan. 1, according to a message posted on HealthCare.gov early this afternoon.
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Health Insurance Blog:
Couldn't enroll by December 23? We can still help you get covered
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Chad Terhune / Los Angeles Times:
California health exchange tops 400,000 enrolled prior to deadline
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Jose DelReal / Politico:
Bill de Blasio daughter reveals drug, alcohol abuse — In an unusual and moving Christmas Eve video, the college-age daughter of New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio is revealing for the first time her struggle with alcohol, drugs and depression — and is urging others in need to get help.
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Andrea Peyser / New York Post:
Give her the heave-ho, de Blasio — Enough! — If Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has a lick of sense in his 6-foot-5 frame, he'll cast out of his incoming administration Lis Smith — the randy Democratic operative who's got a freaky fetish for the black knee socks and balding pate of married ex-Love Gov Eliot Spitzer.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Appeals Court Refuses To Halt Utah Marriages For Same-Sex Couples — A Christmas Eve order from the 10th Circuit. Update: State officials say they will ask the Supreme Court to step in. — Nicole Barnes, left, and her partner Tarah Camarillo exchange rings as they get married …
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McKenzie Romero / Deseret News:
About 700 marriage licenses issued in Utah since judge's ruling
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BBC:
Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing — Computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing has been given a posthumous royal pardon. — It addresses his 1952 conviction for homosexuality for which he was punished by being chemically castrated. — The conviction meant he lost …
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Caroline Davies / Guardian:
Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing receives royal pardon
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Oliver Wright / The Independent:
Alan Turing gets royal pardon for ‘gross indecency’ - 61 years after he poisoned himself
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Kris Van Cleave / WJLA-TV:
VIDEO: Santa Claus shot with pellet gun at toy giveaway in Southeast — WASHINGTON (WJLA) - A man in a Santa Claus suit was shot in the back with a pellet gun Tuesday morning during a toy giveaway in Southeast Washington. — The video is disturbing. The man dressed as Santa has led …
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
House Republican vows to defend Christmas from ‘offended’ minority — Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) on Tuesday vowed to protect Christmas against what he called a “vocal minority” offended by its symbols and traditions. — “There is a vocal minority that is offended at the rest of us …
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Adam Withnall / The Independent:
Kim Jong-un: North Korean leader ‘was very drunk’ when ordering executions — Source tells Japanese newspaper purge of Kim's powerful uncle Jang Song-thaek was inevitable after ‘surprising’ first deaths — The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was “very drunk” when he ordered the recent execution …
Rick Kambic / Chicago Sun Times:
Morton Grove Library Board rejects $3K donation from atheist — Comments on a Facebook page, including one that said “[expletive] God,” led Morton Grove Library trustees to reject a $3,000 donation that was made to support Park Board member Dan Ashta's Pledge of Allegiance boycott.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal:
The gist of Christmas lost — 'Twas the season of Christmas, and all through the land — Were signs and symbols some folks couldn't stand. — The evergreen conifer many decorate with glee, — But don't you dare call it a Christmas tree. — Heaven forbid a Nativity in the town square
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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Here Are The 15 Democratic Senators Bucking The White House And Threatening War With Iran — WASHINGTON — As the United States finally puts a decade of war behind it, a group of senators, including 15 Democrats, is defying the White House and threatening to push the country into a fresh war with Iran.
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Peter Beinart / The Daily Beast:
Where's the Anti-War Left on Iran?
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Travis Gettys / The Raw Story:
Christian activists show their love by covering Chicago atheist display and berating onlookers — A Christian activist group placed a banner over an atheist display at Chicago's Daley Plaza proclaiming that “A is for Angels.” — The banner covers a sign set up earlier this month by the Freedom …
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Philip Rucker / Post Politics:
In fundraising pitch, Hillary Clinton says Bill will match donations — Hillary Rodham Clinton fired off an end-of-the-year fundraising solicitation to supporters of her family's charitable foundation - and she offered an intriguing pitch. — Her husband, former president Bill Clinton …
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Taylor Marsh and Talking Points Memo
Chicago Grid:
The Snarf's at 600 W. Chicago just laid off all its employees via email — A River North sandwich shop gave its employees an unwelcome Christmas surprise on Sunday night, firing them all by email. — The 20 employees of Snarf's Sub Shop at 600 W. Chicago Ave. received the email last night around 5 p.m. Grid obtained it this morning.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Legitimacy Problem — It's pretty clear that the implementation of Obamacare will set the tone for how Americans think about government for years to come. There are two large questions to be settled, which you might call the questions of competence and coercion.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP should try again to delay Obamacare's individual mandate
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