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The Fix:
Democrats' support for Obamacare surges — Democrats are rallying back behind the 2010 health-care law and boosting President Obama's ratings for handling the law's rollout, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. — But most Republicans and independents remain stubbornly opposed …
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Daily Kos, CBS DC, Hot Air and Washington Post
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ThinkProgress:
Fox News Host Demands To Know Why GOP Hasn't Offered An Alternative To Obamacare — On the final day of Obamacare's open enrollment, Fox News host Jenna Lee hammered Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) about why Republicans have yet to offer a comprehensive alternative to the health law — despite repeatedly voting for its repeal.
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Mediaite and The Raw Story
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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Washington Post:
Maryland gears up for health exchange redo — On Monday, the first enrollment period for health insurance plans made possible by the Affordable Care Act will end, so call centers in Maryland plan to stay open until midnight in a last-minute effort to boost enrollment numbers.
Douglas Graham / Roll Call:
Cantor Says GOP Finishing Work on Obamacare Alternative, Details Agenda — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., reiterated on Friday that the House plans to bring up a bill to replace President Barack Obama's health care law. — In a memo to members laying out the House agenda …
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Washington Monthly
CNN:
Begala: I got a better deal through Obamacare
Begala: I got a better deal through Obamacare
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Politico, CBS DC and Real Clear Politics
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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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
That Good News on Obamacare? Republicans Insist It's Not Real — Americans are signing up for the Affordable Care Act. And they appear to be doing so in really big numbers. As of the latest official update, last week, more than 6 million people had selected a private insurance plan through …
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.
Steve Kroft / CBS News:
Is the U.S. stock market rigged? — Steve Kroft reports on a new book from Michael Lewis that reveals how some high-speed traders work the stock market to their advantage — The following script is from “Rigged” which aired on March 30, 2014. Steve Kroft is the correspondent.
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The Daily Caller, Bloomberg View, CBS New York, The Big Picture and WTVR-TV
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Michael Lewis / New York Times:
An Adaptation From ‘Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt,’ by Michael Lewis
An Adaptation From ‘Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt,’ by Michael Lewis
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Bloomberg View and The Verge
Politico:
Obamacare glitches, take two — The Obamacare enrollment website, HealthCare.gov, endured renewed technical problems on Monday, creating serious obstacles for people trying to sign up before the midnight deadline and stirring up all those bad memories of the botched October launch.
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ThinkProgress, FishbowlDC, WGBH News, Wonkblog, The Daily Caller, CNN and ACASignups.net
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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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BBC, Capital Weather Gang, The Huffington Post, Mashable, Hot Air, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, The Week, News Desk, The Verge, Firedoglake, The PJ Tatler, Gothamist, Guardian, The Agonist and Gawker
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Kerry on UN climate change report: ‘Costs of inaction are catastrophic’
Kerry on UN climate change report: ‘Costs of inaction are catastrophic’
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Weasel Zippers
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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Outside the Beltway, Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
DHS document: 68,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions released in 2013 — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials last year released 68,000 illegal immigrants with criminal convictions, undercutting Democratic claims that President Obama has strictly enforced immigration laws.
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BREITBART.COM and RedState
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Jessica Vaughan / cis.org:
Catch and Release — Interior immigration enforcement in 2013
Catch and Release — Interior immigration enforcement in 2013
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Fox News, The Other McCain, Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
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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The Dish and Bloomberg View
BuzzFeed:
Exclusive: U.S. Taxpayers To Spend $400,000 For A Camel Sculpture In Pakistan — A camel staring at the eye of a needle would decorate a new American embassy — in a country where the average income yearly is $1,250. — “Camel Contemplating Needle” by John Baldessari on display …
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Hit & Run, BizPac Review, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and Independent Journal Review
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Sheldon Adelson: Wild card — Plus, Zeidman suggested that Adelson's personal feelings on the various 2016 possibilities won't factor into his decision as they did in 2012. “None of them have a 20-year history like Newt Gingrich did,” Zeidman said of the former House speaker's relationship with Adelson.
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Washington Monthly
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Steve Sebelius / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Christie clear winner of Adelson primary
Christie clear winner of Adelson primary
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The Moderate Voice, Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo and Politico
Associated Press:
U.S. talks with Israel on release of spy Jonathan Pollard — JERUSALEM — The United States is talking with Israel about the possibility of releasing convicted spy Jonathan Pollard early from his life sentence as an incentive in the troubled Mideast peace negotiations, a person familiar with the situation said Monday.
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Liberaland
Alex Wayne / Bloomberg:
Obamacare Enrollment Heading to 7 Million at Deadline — The first yearly sign-up period for Obamacare closes today, with early returns suggesting the administration may near a projection of 7 million enrollees made before the U.S. health exchange struggled at its startup.
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The Agonist and Guardian
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