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.

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 …

Red, blue states move in opposite directions in a new era of single-party control  —  Political polarization has ushered in a new era in state government, where single-party control of the levers of power has produced competing Americas.  One is grounded in principles of lean and limited government …

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.

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.

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 …

Ted Cruz says he's hired lawyers to renounce Canadian citizenship  —  WASHINGTON — The junior senator from Texas is still a Canadian.  But he's working on it, eh?  —  Born in Alberta 43 years ago last Sunday, Sen. Ted Cruz was unaware of his dual nationality until The Dallas Morning News explored the issue in August.

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 …

“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.

Afghanistan gains will be lost quickly after drawdown, U.S. intelligence estimate warns  —  A new American intelligence assessment on the Afghan war predicts that the gains the United States and its allies have made during the past three years are likely to have been significantly eroded by 2017 …

Documents Reveal Top NSA Hacking Unit  —  The NSA's TAO hacking unit is considered to be the intelligence agency's top secret weapon.  It maintains its own covert network, infiltrates computers around the world and even intercepts shipping deliveries to plant back doors in electronics ordered by those it is targeting.

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.