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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
As New Enrollment Period Starts, ACA Approval at 37% — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Affordable Care Act's second open enrollment period begins, 37% of Americans say they approve of the law, one percentage point below the previous low in January.
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Gallup: ‘New numerical low’ for Obamacare — Support for Obamacare continues to decline, with the law hitting a new low in approval, and a new high in disapproval, as the second enrollment period has opened for Americans, according to Gallup. — Just 37 percent approve of the Affordable Care Act …
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Chris Moody / CNN:
How the GOP used Twitter to stretch election laws — Washington (CNN) — Republicans and outside groups used anonymous Twitter accounts to share internal polling data ahead of the midterm elections, CNN has learned, a practice that raises questions about whether they violated campaign finance laws that prohibit coordination.
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Washington Post:
Federal drug agents launch surprise inspections of NFL teams following games — Federal drug agents conducted surprise inspections of NFL team medical staffs on Sunday as part of an ongoing investigation into prescription drug abuse in the league. The Post's Sally Jenkins explains what happened and why.
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CBS News:
Ebola patient Dr. Martin Salia dies in Omaha — AP PHOTO/UNITED METHODIST NEWS SERVICE, MIKE DUBOSE — Shares - — A surgeon who contracted Ebola while treating patients in Sierra Leone has passed away in a hospital in Nebraska, where he had been flown for treatment, officials announced Monday.
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Kevin Baker / New York Times:
Delusions of the Democrats — DEMOGRAPHICS is not enough. — For years now, it's been an article of faith among Democrats that the future belongs to them, thanks to the country's changing demographic mix. The rising percentage of voters who are women, Americans of color and especially Latinos …
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Boris Johnson / Telegraph:
Dr Matt Taylor's shirt made me cry, too - with rage at his abusers — An astrophysicist who deserves our applause has been pilloried in his moment of triumph — The other day the brilliant space scientist Dr Matt Taylor was asked to give a report on the progress of Philae …
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Before the Beheadings — Remembering a time when Islamist extremists wanted to persuade reporters, not kill them — In the spring of 2000, I lived for a month in a Taliban madrasa, a religious seminary, located on the Grand Trunk Road outside of Peshawar, in Pakistan.
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Michael Lallo / Sydney Morning Herald:
Karl Stefanovic's sexism experiment: Today presenter wears same suit for a year — Follow Michael on Twitter Follow Michael on Google+ Email Michael — Karl Stefanovic wore the same suit for a year to show the disparity in the way men and women are judged and no-one noticed.
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Daily Mail:
British medical student ‘in Jihadi beheading video’: 20-year-old ‘appears next to Jihadi John’ in sickening film — A UK medical student was last night suspected of being in an Islamic State killing squad that murdered 17 hostages. — The father of Nasser Muthana said the 20-year-old appeared …
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Richard Spencer / Telegraph:
Peter Kassig's family call for restraint after beheading video
Peter Kassig's family call for restraint after beheading video
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New York Times:
A Cuban Brain Drain, Courtesy of the U.S. — Secretary of State John Kerry and the American ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, have praised the work of Cuban doctors dispatched to treat Ebola patients in West Africa. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently sent …
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The Hill:
Will the Obama coalition survive? — The coalition of voters that twice elected President Obama to the White House might not be there for the Democratic nominee in 2016, party strategists are warning. — Following their disastrous showing at the polls this month, many Democrats …
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New York Times:
Iran Nuclear Pact Faces an Array of Opposing Forces — WASHINGTON — When President Obama wrote last month to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urging him to overcome a decade of mistrust and negotiate a deal limiting Tehran's nuclear ambitions, it was perhaps the president's …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The man whose memory failure helped save Bill Clinton's presidency — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL WHITE HOUSE HILLARY CLINTON BILL CLINTON TWITTER SOCIAL MEDIA — This weekend, dozens of former top Clinton White House officials will gather in Little Rock to mark the tenth anniversary of the Clinton Presidential Library.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Partisanship Breaks the Government — This could be a rather heated winter. All three branches of government are on course to collide over partisan politics, constitutional authority and scope of power, particularly as vested in the executive branch. — The president has wasted no time moving beyond the Democrats' midterm defeats.
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Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Romney says there are ‘more productive ways’ to fight Obama than shutdown — Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, said Sunday that there are “more productive ways” to fight President Obama's immigration executive actions than shutting down the government.
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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Romney: Obama Needs to Learn That He Lost the Midterms
Romney: Obama Needs to Learn That He Lost the Midterms
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