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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court to rule on health care subsidies — The Supreme Court, moving back into the abiding controversy over the Affordable Care Act, agreed early Friday afternoon to decide how far the federal government can extend its program of subsidies to buyers of health insurance.
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Nicholas Bagley / The Incidental Economist:
The Supreme Court will hear King. That's bad news for the ACA. — In a significant setback for the Obama administration, the Supreme Court just agreed to review King v. Burwell, the Fourth Circuit's decision upholding an IRS rule extending tax credits to federally established exchanges.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Accepts New Challenge to Health Law — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a new challenge to the Affordable Care Act, potentially imperiling President Obama's signature legislative achievement two years after it survived a different challenge in the court by a single vote.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Supreme Court To Hear Case Seeking To Gut Obamacare — In an unexpected step into a politically charged case, the Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would hear a lawsuit seeking to strip health care from millions of Americans. The Affordable Care Act gives states …
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Dan Sewell / Associated Press:
GAY MARRIAGE ON WAY BACK TO US SUPREME COURT
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Evan Perez / CNN:
Obama's expected pick for Attorney General — Washington (CNN) — Loretta Lynch, the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, is expected to be President Barack Obama's pick for Attorney General, U.S. officials briefed on the matter told CNN. — An announcement is expected in the coming days …
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New York Times:
Loretta Lynch, Federal Prosecutor, Is Called a Leading Candidate for Attorney General — WASHINGTON — Loretta E. Lynch, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, has emerged as a leading contender to be the next attorney general, officials close to the process said, as President Obama looks outside …
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Jay Kolls / KSTP-TV:
Mpls. Mayor Flashes Gang Sign with Convicted Felon; Law Enforcement Outraged — 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has obtained a photo of Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges posing with a convicted felon while flashing a known gang sign. — The man in the photo is a twice-convicted felon for drug selling …
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Shaun King / Daily Kos:
pointergate may be the most racist news story of 2014 — What you are about to read and watch is stranger than fiction. It's so racist and so outrageous, that people are questioning whether or not it's satire from The Onion. It's real though, and that's what is so shocking and heartbreaking about the whole ordeal.
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Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
TV Station Accuses Mayor of ‘Gang Signs’ For Pointing Index Finger With Black Volunteer
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Sam Youngman / Lexington Herald-Leader:
McConnell: If Rand Paul runs for president, 'he'll be able to count on me' — LOUISVILLE — There were only two things Mitch McConnell didn't want to talk about Thursday — whether he will run for re-election in 2020 and his eventual legacy. — In his first one-on-one interview since …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Lame duck swims to Asia
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Alex Rogers / TIME:
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin: People Just Don't Believe Obama Cares — West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin told TIME Thursday that President Barack Obama has lost his emotional connection with the American people. — “There's an old saying my grandmother would say …
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Washington Post:
Senate Democrats plan a legislative rush before power shifts to the GOP — Before ceding full control of Congress to the GOP in January, Senate Democrats are planning to rush a host of critical measures to President Obama's desk, including bills to revive dozens of expired tax breaks and avoid a government shutdown for another year.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
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Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
Jobs Data Show Steady Gains Even as Voters Signal Anxiety — Three days after voters expressed their discontent with the state of the economy, the government on Friday reported strong signs of improvement, estimating that employers added 214,000 jobs in October, while the official jobless rate dropped …
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Javier E. David / CNBC:
Payrolls grow by 214K; jobless rate hits 6-year low
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Triumph of the Wrong — The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet midterms to men of understanding. Or as I put it on the eve of another Republican Party sweep, politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.
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Yahoo! News:
Ukraine accuses Russia of sending in tanks, escalating crisis — Reuters 5 hrs ago — KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine's military accused Russia on Friday of sending a column of 32 tanks and truckloads of troops into the country's east to support pro-Russian separatists fighting government forces.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Fox News cuts ties with Ben Carson — Following an ABC News report that Fox News contributor Ben Carson is set to air a 40-minute ad “introducing himself to the American people” as part of a 2016 presidential bid, Fox News has cut ties with him, according to a Fox spokeswoman.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Ed Gillespie concedes Virginia Senate race — Washington (CNN) — Republican Ed Gillespie conceded the Virginia Senate race Friday to incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Warner. — Gillespie said at a Friday afternoon news conference that he had called Warner “congratulating him on his re-election” …
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MacKenzie Elmer / Des Moines Register:
Joni Ernst spokeswoman resigned after OWI arrest — Gretchen Hamel, a campaign spokeswoman for Joni Ernst's U.S. Senate campaign, was arrested on Oct. 29 for operating while intoxicated and resigned the morning after the incident. — West Des Moines police found Hamel passed out behind …
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National Journal:
He says he wants to live a normal life. But he can still taste the White House. — Certainly, Ryan has given his suitors some cause for optimism: the visits to early primary states, the discussions with GOP donors, the high-profile blitz to promote his book, The Way Forward, which reads in parts like a presidential manifesto.
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