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10:25 AM ET, August 13, 2013

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Robert Pear / New York Times:
A Limit on Consumer Costs Is Delayed in Health Care Law  —  WASHINGTON — In another setback for President Obama's health care initiative, the administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the law that limits how much people may have to spend on their own health care.
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Lara Seligman / The Hill:
Administration delays ObamaCare caps on out-of-pocket costs  —  The Obama administration has delayed a key provision in President Obama's healthcare reform law that would limit out-of-pocket insurance costs for consumers until 2015.  —  The cap, which includes deductibles and co-payments …
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Avik Roy / Forbes:
Yet Another White House Obamacare Delay: Out-Of-Pocket Caps Waived Until 2015  —  First, there was the delay of Obamacare's Medicare cuts until after the election.  Then there was the delay of the law's employer mandate.  Then there was the announcement, buried in the Federal Register …
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Hillary Clinton jumps back into political fray with speech on voting rights  —  (CNN) - Hillary Clinton's self-imposed absence from the country's political discourse ended Monday when the former secretary of state issued biting criticism of Republican-backed voter ID laws during a speech to a group of lawyers.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Weiner: Wife will have role in Clinton campaign
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and msnbc.com
Jan Schakowsky / The Huffington Post:   The GOP's Politics of Subtraction
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Weiner says scandal hurt wife ‘professionally’; knows 2016 Clinton role
Elon Musk / Tesla Motors:
Hyperloop  —  When the California “high speed” rail was approved, I was quite disappointed, as I know many others were too.  How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL - doing incredible things like indexing all the world's knowledge and putting rovers on Mars …
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Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:
Revealed: Elon Musk Explains the Hyperloop, the Solar-Powered High-Speed Future of Inter-City Transportation  —  Almost a year after Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla Motors (TSLA) and SpaceX, first floated the idea of a superfast mode of transportation, he has finally revealed the details …
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
This Is Not Rosa Parks  —  Oprah Winfrey's Swiss adventure.  —  Jesse Jackson hasn't yet declared Zurich the new Selma, but from some of the news coverage you'd think Oprah Winfrey was the next Rosa Parks.  The former TV-talk superstar experienced what New York's Daily News calls …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
A Former Engine of the G.O.P., the Town Hall Meeting, Cools Down  —  WASHINGTON — Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, is no stranger to town hall meetings and their political possibilities.  Four summers ago, he helped his party use them to stoke opposition to President Obama's health care bill.
New York Times:
Racial Discrimination in Stop-and-Frisk  —  Judge Shira Scheindlin of Federal District Court in New York upheld the bedrock principle of individual liberty on Monday when she ruled that the tactics underlying New York City's stop-and-frisk program violated the constitutional rights of minority citizens.
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The White House:
Presidential Memorandum — Reviewing Our Global Signals Intelligence Collection and Communications Technologies  —  The United States, like all nations, gathers intelligence in order to protect its national interests and to defend itself, its citizens, and its partners and allies from threats to our security.
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
The Surveillance Speech: A Low Point in Barack Obama's Presidency
en.ria.ru:
Russia Confirms Anti-Gay Law Will Be Enforced at Olympics … Russia's Interior Ministry, which controls the police force, confirmed Monday that the country's controversial anti-gay law will be enforced during the Sochi 2014 Olympics.  —  Confusion has reigned over how the country intends …
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Lara Seligman / The Hill:
Schumer: Nations should wave rainbow flags for gay rights at Russia Olympics
Jay Korff / WJLA-TV:
President Obama's ambulance runs out of gas, sparks criticism  —  WASHINGTON (WJLA) - As President Barack Obama travels to and from the White House in his motorcade, the number one concern is keeping him safe.  —  A critical constant is a D.C. Fire and EMS ambulance, typically Medic 1 …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Twitchy
New York Times:
Two Powerful Signals of a Major Shift on Crime  —  WASHINGTON — Two decisions on Monday, one by a federal judge in New York and the other by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., were powerful signals that the pendulum has swung away from the tough-on-crime policies of a generation ago.
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Ivan Betinov / The People's Cube:
First Dog Bo takes a well-deserved vacation  —  Americans can go to bed with a story to warm the cockles of their hearts tonight.  First Dog Bo has been successfully transported to join the First Family on their well-deserved vacation on Martha's Vineyard.  —  Bo was transported from Washington …
Rob Christensen / Raleigh News & Observer:
Gov. McCrory signs voter ID bill into law  —  RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory Monday signed into law a bill requiring voters to produce a photo ID when they go to the polls, a measure that was hailed by Republicans as a means for heightening ballot security but which was criticized by Democrats …
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:   Clinton Calls for Action to Protect Voter Rights
Awr Hawkins / BREITBART.COM:
ATTORNEY FOR WHISTLEBLOWER: 400 U.S. MISSILES STOLEN IN BENGHAZI  —  On August 12, Joe DiGenova, attorney for one of the Benghazi whistleblowers, told Washington D.C.'s WMAL that one of the reasons people have remained tight-lipped about Benghazi is because 400 U.S. missiles were “diverted to Libya” …
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Planned Parenthood mailer hits ‘extremely dangerous’ Cuccinelli  —  Follow @politicalticker Follow @PeterHambyCNN  —  Washington (CNN) - Planned Parenthood unleashed a wave of mail pieces in Virginia this week blasting Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli as “extremely dangerous for women.”
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Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
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Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
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Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
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