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Joanne Kenen / Politico:
HealthCare.gov under maintenance — The HealthCare.gov website is down for maintenance Monday, the final day of Affordable Care Act enrollment. — The site, which had been performing well under large volume as the sign-up deadline approached, has been unavailable since shortly after 3 a.m. Eastern Time.
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
HealthCare.gov restored after morning outage — HealthCare.gov was down early Monday, hours before the midnight deadline to sign up for ObamaCare. — “The system isn't available at the moment,” a message on a number of web pages read Monday morning. “We're currently performing maintenance.
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National Review
Alex Wayne / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Enrollment Heading to 7 Million at Deadline
Obamacare Enrollment Heading to 7 Million at Deadline
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The Agonist and Guardian
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Obamacare has led to health coverage for millions more people — At least 9.5 million previously uninsured people have gotten health insurance since Obamacare started, surveys and reports show. — Precise figures on national health coverage will not be available for months …
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Talking Points Memo, The New Republic, The Moderate Voice, Liberaland, The Plum Line, ACASignups.net and American Spectator
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
How You, I, and Everyone Got the Top 1 Percent All Wrong — Unveiling the real story behind the richest of the rich — For years, I've been making the same embarrassing mistake about U.S. economic inequality. Sorry. — I've written, over and over, that the most important divide …
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The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway and Business Insider
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Panel's Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come — YOKOHAMA, Japan — Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world's oceans, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that the problem is likely to grow substantially worse unless greenhouse emissions are brought under control.
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Firedoglake, BBC, Washington Post, Hot Air, The Verge, Guardian, Mashable, The Week, The Agonist and Gawker
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NY Daily News:
Ratings may sink Ronan Farrow's show on MSNBC — ‘Ronan Farrow Daily’ came in 708th in the Nielsens on Wednesday, and a network source says he ‘sort of stinks on TV’ — Ronan Farrow's MSNBC talk show is facing cancellation amid poor ratings, sources exclusively tell Confidenti@l.
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Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller, National Review and Washington Free Beacon
Tom Boggioni / The Raw Story:
Judge: Probation for du Pont heir in daughter rape because ‘he would not fare well’ in prison — A Superior Court judge who sentenced an heir to the du Pont fortune to probation for raping his 3-year-old daughter wrote in her order that he “will not fare well” in prison and suggested …
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Gawker, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Shakesville
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Cris Barrish / delawareonline:
Judge said du Pont heir ‘will not fare well’ in prison
Judge said du Pont heir ‘will not fare well’ in prison
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The Daily Caller, Taylor Marsh, Liberaland, FreakOutNation and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Record volume for O-Care exchanges — The federal health insurance marketplace saw record volume for a Saturday, and operators at the federal call centers struggled to keep up with the volume of calls as consumers flooded the ObamaCare exchanges ahead of Monday's enrollment deadline.
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CNN and Taylor Marsh
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Report: Review finds torture methods not key in bin Laden hunt — A forthcoming Senate report concludes that waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques did not provide any key evidence that aided the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the Associated Press reports.
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Liberaland
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Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
Senate Torture Report Examines Hunt for Bin Laden
Los Angeles Times:
Democratic turnout seen as key to party's retaining Senate control — The Democratic Party is tackling a historical weakness: the failure of Democratic voters to show up for midterm elections. — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe gestures during a news conference in Richmond.
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Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:
Other People's Pathologies — Over the past week or so, Jonathan Chait and I have enjoyed an ongoing debate over the rhetoric the president employs when addressing African Americans. Here is my initial installment, Chait's initial rebuttal, my subsequent reply, and Chait's latest riposte.
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Bloomberg View
Juan Williams / The Hill:
O-Care perception bests reality — Last week, in the run-up to Monday's deadline for enrolling in ObamaCare, I called one of the few people with a hand in designing both the Affordable Care Act and the Massachusetts healthcare reform plan signed into law in 2006 by then-Gov. Mitt Romney (R).
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The Moderate Voice
Leslie H. Gelb / The Daily Beast:
Obama Must Show He'll Use Military Means to Deter Russia in Ukraine — To deter Putin and other aggressors, diplomatic and economic slaps are not enough; the U.S. needs a military dimension. — Don't pop the champagne corks just yet because Vladimir Putin phoned Barack Obama to pursue diplomacy on Ukraine and environs.
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Wall Street Journal, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Hot Air
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John Kerry / US Department of State:
Press Availibility - Paris, France
Press Availibility - Paris, France
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Weekly Standard and Wall Street Journal
Eliana Johnson / National Review:
Inside the Koch-Funded Ads Giving Dems Fits — In one of the ads Americans for Prosperity (AFP) has put on the air this year, a thirtysomething actress stands against a white backdrop and looks into the camera. “People don't like political ads,” she says plaintively. “I don't like them either.
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Hopes Frustrated, Many Latinos Reject the Ballot Box Altogether — AURORA, Colo. — As the weather warms, Lizeth Chacon is anticipating a new season of registering Latino voters — yet dreading experiences like one late last year, when she came upon a skate park full of older teenagers.
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No More Mister Nice Blog