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Marilyn Tavenner / HHS.gov:
Enrollment Surged Prior to the Deadline for Coverage on January 1 — As we continue our open enrollment campaign, we experienced a welcome surge in enrollment as millions of Americans seek access to affordable health care coverage through new Health Insurance Marketplaces nationwide.
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Associated Press:
Federal health market surpasses 1 million signups — HONOLULU — A December surge propelled health care sign-ups through the government's rehabilitated website past the 1 million mark, the Obama administration said Sunday, reflecting new signs of life for the problem-plagued federal insurance exchange.
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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
ObamaCare enrollment tops 1 million — More than 1.1 million people enrolled in ObamaCare before a December 24 deadline for consumers seeking healthcare plans that begin Jan. 1, the Obama administration said early Sunday. — Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) …
Fox News:
House Intelligence chair: Benghazi attack ‘Al Qaeda-led event’ — The 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya was an “Al Qaeda-led event” according to multiple on-the-record interviews with the head of the House Intelligence Committee who receives regular classified briefings and has access …
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
The New York Times' revisionist account of Benghazi — The New York Times is out with a revisionist account of the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi. The Times says that in months of investigating, it “turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault.”
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
A Deadly Mix in Benghazi
Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:
Who cares if we wreck that million dollar painting? JP Morgan's $19m-a-year boss under fire for ‘opulent’ Christmas card of him hitting tennis balls around palatial home — JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon, 57, has been branded ‘tone deaf’ after releasing a decadent Christmas card in which he hits tennis balls around his palatial home.
Laura Italiano / New York Post:
Call girl tell-all: Eliot Spitzer liked to choke me, was into ‘struggle’ — Rebecca Woodard is seen leaving Family Court in Manhattan in 2005 during the custody case involving her daughter. Inset: The cover of Woodard's tell-all. — He socked it to her.
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Matthew O'Brien / The Atlantic Online:
The Greatest Investment Opportunity Since Dogecoin — Dogecoin, a joke cryptocurrency based on an internet dog meme, exploded last week. Now it's Ponzicoin's turn. — DEAR MOST SAVVY AND RESPECTED INVESTOR: — I AM WRITING TO YOU TO INFORM YOU ABOUT AN EXCITING AND ENRICHING INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY …
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Paul Krugman
RIA Novosti:
Female Suicide Bomber Kills Over a Dozen at Volgograd Train Station … Originally posted at 13:19 and updated throughout the day — A female suicide bomber blew herself up in the entrance hall of a train station in Russia's southern city of Volgograd on Sunday, killing over a dozen people …
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Paul Krugman:
The Year of the Weasel — Just a brief thought about what didn't happen in 2013, and what did. — What didn't happen was the same as what didn't happen in 2012, or 2011, or 2010. Inflation didn't take off; bond vigilantes didn't turn America (or any nation that borrows in its own currency) into Greece, Greece I tell you.
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Joanne Ostrow / Ostrow Off The Record:
“Duck Dynasty” debacle winners and losers — “Duck Dynasty” start Phil Robertson. (A&E via AP) — The feathers are no longer flying. For now, the “Duck Dynasty” debacle is settled. The network, A&E, has welcomed patriarch and hate-speech spewer Phil Robertson back into the fold.
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Benjamin Bell / ABC News:
Sen. Ted Cruz Expresses No Regret Over Role in Government Shutdown; Talks Coloring Book — In an exclusive interview with ABC's Jonathan Karl for “This Week,” firebrand conservative Sen. Ted Cruz, R - Tx., expressed no regrets over his role in this fall's government shutdown …
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