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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 …
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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.
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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
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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Politico:
HealthCare.gov offline for nearly six hours on deadline morning — Obamacare sign-up closes at midnight and enrollment is surging, but a technical flare-up on HealthCare.gov Monday morning marred the administration's momentum. — The online portal, which had been handling millions of visitors …
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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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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
How To Get Marginal Voters to the Polls — Thanks to a lot of insistent writing by a lot of writers (perhaps including yours truly), with assists from President Obama and from the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, the CW is finally beginning to settle on the proposition that the biggest challenge …
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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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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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Jessica Vaughan / cis.org:
Catch and Release — Interior immigration enforcement in 2013
Catch and Release — Interior immigration enforcement in 2013
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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
REPORT: OBAMA ADMIN RELEASED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS
REPORT: OBAMA ADMIN RELEASED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CRIMINALS
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The Daily Caller and Althouse
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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Sheldon Adelson: Wild card
Sheldon Adelson: Wild card
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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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Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
Senate Torture Report Examines Hunt for Bin Laden
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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