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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Obamacare Signups Hit 8 Million — And both young and old are on board — President Obama just announced the final numbers for the Affordable Care Act's open enrollment period. — Eight million people have signed up for private insurance plans through the new marketplaces.
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FACT SHEET: Affordable Care Act by the Numbers — The Affordable Care Act is working. It is giving millions of middle class Americans the health care security they deserve, it is slowing the growth of health care costs and it has brought transparency and competition to the Health Insurance Marketplace.
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The Hill:
Obama tells Dems to ‘be proud’ as O-Care enrollments reach 8M — A defiant President Obama on Thursday announced that 8 million people have enrolled in ObamaCare plans while exhorting Democrats to “be proud” of what they've achieved. — Holding an unscheduled press conference at the White House …
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Politico:
Obama: 8 million enrolled under ACA — President Barack Obama called Thursday on Republicans to end their quest to repeal Obamacare — and Democrats to “forcefully defend and be proud” of the law. — In remarks from the White House briefing room, Obama delivered a vigorous defense of the program …
Sam Baker / NationalJournal.com:
Obamacare Is On a Winning Streak
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Obama to meet with healthcare leaders
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Politico, Weekly Standard and The Daily Caller
Adam Taylor / Washington Post:
What we know about the ‘grotesque’ leaflet handed out to Jews in Donetsk — A leaflet calling for Jews to register has reportedly been handed out in Ukraine's eastern region of Donetsk. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has commented on the letter, saying that it is “not just intolerable; it's grotesque, is beyond unacceptable.”
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Oren Dorell / USA Today:
Jews ordered to register in east Ukraine — Jews in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk where pro-Russian militants have taken over government buildings were told they have to “register” with the Ukrainians who are trying to make the city become part of Russia, according to Israeli media.
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ThinkProgress:
Someone Is Ordering Eastern Ukraine's Jews To ‘Register’
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Diplomatic deal struck on Ukraine
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Chelsea Clinton announces pregnancy — In a joint appearance, Chelsea and Hillary Clinton announced Thursday that Chelsea is expecting her first child later this year. — Speaking at a No Ceilings event, sponsored by the Clinton Foundation and Microsoft, the Clintons addressed women's issues …
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Chelsea Clinton announces she's pregnant
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Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Chelsea Clinton: I'm Pregnant!
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Hendrik Hertzberg / Comment:
NATIONAL POPULAR VOTE: NEW YORK STATE CLIMBS ABOARD — On Tuesday, the State of New York took a baby step—or maybe a giant leap!—toward making the United States of America something more closely resembling a modern democracy: Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill joining up the Empire State …
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Salon:
Dick Morris is very afraid: A horrible pundit's “popular vote” hysteria
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Glenn Blain Daily / NY Daily News:
New York joins campaign to end Electoral College role in presidential elections
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Hot Air and Hullabaloo
Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Reid calls Bundy supporters ‘domestic terrorists’ — By LAURA MYERS — LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL — U.S. Sen. Harry Reid on Thursday called supporters of Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy “domestic terrorists” because they defended him against a Bureau of Land Management cattle roundup …
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Edward Snowden / Guardian:
Vladimir Putin must be called to account on surveillance just like Obama — I questioned the Russian president live on TV to get his answer on the record, not to whitewash him — On Thursday, I questioned Russia's involvement in mass surveillance on live television.
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Jonathan Kandell / New York Times:
Gabriel García Márquez, Conjurer of Literary Magic, Dies at 87 — Gabriel García Márquez, the Colombian novelist whose “One Hundred Years of Solitude” established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, died on Thursday at his home in Mexico City. He was 87.
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Boing Boing and The Moderate Voice
Associated Press:
Man urinates in reservoir, ruins 38M gallons of water — PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland water officials are discarding 38 million gallons of drinking water after a 19-year-old was caught urinating into one of the city's reservoirs. — A security camera caught the man urinating at about 1 …
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Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller and Balloon Juice
Larry McShane / NY Daily News:
Secret Service threatened to shoot Mr. Met if he got close to President Clinton, says book — In a new book 'Yes, It's Hot in Here,' AJ Mass — who used to don the Mr. Met costume — said he was hoping to meet President Clinton during his visit to Shea Stadium in April 1997.
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Capital New York, Outside the Beltway and Gawker
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
Scientists Find an ‘Earth Twin,’ or Perhaps a Cousin — It is a bit bigger and somewhat colder, but a planet circling a star 500 light-years away is otherwise the closest match of our home world discovered so far, astronomers announced on Thursday. — The planet, known as Kepler 186f …
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