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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

SHOCK FLASHBACK: Obama Says Illegal Immigration HURTS ‘Blue-Collar Americans,’ STRAINS Welfare [VIDEO]  —  President Obama once declared that an influx of illegal immigrants will harm “the wages of blue-collar Americans” and “put strains on an already overburdened safety net.”

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.

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 …

Op-Ed ‘Orange is the New Black’ actress: My parents were deported  —  In “Orange Is the New Black,” I play Maritza Ramos, a tough Latina from the 'hood.  In “Jane the Virgin,” I play Lina, Jane's best friend and a funny know-it-all who is quick to offer advice.  —  I love both parts, but they're fiction.

GOP leaders set sights on tax reform but fret over newly combative Obama  —  Less than two weeks after Republicans won control of Congress, acrimony over immigration is dampening hopes for cooperation on more ambitious initiatives, with President Obama and GOP lawmakers bracing not for compromise but for combat.

Defying Expectations, Japan's Economy Falls Into Recession  —  TOKYO — In a development that could upend Japan's political landscape, government data released on Monday showed that the economy unexpectedly fell into recession in the third quarter, a painful slump attributed to efforts to curb …