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11:10 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 …
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 …
Sharon Begley / Reuters:
Mitch McConnell Seeks Delay For Obamacare Insurance Exchanges
Discussion: Daily Kos and Green Eagle
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Weiner: Wife will have role in Clinton campaign  —  Former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) on Monday said his wife Huma Abedin would have a role in a 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential bid, but acknowledged that his sexting scandals had hurt his spouse “personally” and “professionally.”
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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.
Maggie Haberman / Politico:   Hillary Clinton's next act: The family foundation
Jan Schakowsky / The Huffington Post:   The GOP's Politics of Subtraction
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Weiner says scandal hurt wife ‘professionally’; knows 2016 Clinton role
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Politico
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.
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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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
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES  —  The phrase “unintended consequences” is going to get tossed around a lot over the next couple of days as a pair of techniques born of a three decades pissing-down-the-leg panic over crime get careful scrutiny.  First, Attorney General Eric Holder announced …
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Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
NC's McCrory approves sweeping voter-suppression measures
Amy Chozick / New York Times:   Clinton Calls for Action to Protect Voter Rights
Peter Maass / New York Times:
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets  —  This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key.  For almost two years, Poitras had been working on a documentary about surveillance, and she occasionally received queries from strangers.
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 …
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.
Timothy B. Lee / The Switch:
The man who misled Congress on spying will pick Obama's intelligence review panel  —  On Friday, President Barack Obama promised to appoint an “independent group” of “outside experts” to review the government's surveillance programs.  —  Today, the president formally ordered the formation of this group …
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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
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 …
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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BBC:
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Josh Lederman / Associated Press:
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Spencer Ackerman / Guardian:
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New York Times:
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Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
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Republicans, Don't Shut Down the Government
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Gansler said rival Brown relying on race in Maryland governor's contest
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Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Booker expected to win big in NJ primary
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Robert D. Miller / Robert Miller's Blog:
Davis to Run for Governor
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
GOP Moderates Push Back on Tea Party Spending Cuts
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Reaction
Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley:
Obama's intellectual property chief steps down
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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