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5:15 PM ET, October 21, 2013

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New York Times:
Contractors See Weeks of Work on Health Site  —  Federal contractors have identified most of the main problems crippling President Obama's online health insurance marketplace, but the administration has been slow to issue orders for fixing those flaws, and some contractors worry that the system …
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Caroline May / The Daily Caller:
Of the 13 people who flanked President Obama during his speech defending Obamacare in the Rose Garden Monday, just three had successfully registered for the new Obamacare exchanges.  —  A list of the people who joined Obama on stage provided by the White House included people who have or …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
At the White House: Obamacare success stories that aren't  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL WHITE HOUSE BARACK OBAMA OBAMACARE PRESIDENT HEALTH CARE  —  President Obamainvited a number of people to stand behind him as he delivered his speech on the state of Obamacare at the White House Monday morning.
Politico:
Obama on ACA website: ‘No excuse for these problems’  —  Three weeks after Obamacare's launch, President Barack Obama tossed aside months of messaging about how easy it would be to sign up for health care under his signature law and sought to remind Americans that the Affordable Care Act …
TIME:
No More Apologies: Why Obama Has to Get Mad About His Broken Obamacare Websites  —  Whenever a President of the U.S. stops believing his own spin, the people should take notice  —  When the Obamacare website debuted on Oct. 1, Barack Obama walked into the Rose Garden and compared it to Amazon.com, Kayak.com and the iPhone.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:   Flashback: Obama Told People They Could Keep Their Health Care Plan
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: Don't squander your shutdown gains, Dems
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
GOP, Boehner take shutdown hit in new CNN poll  —  Washington (CNN) — Just over half the public says that it's bad for the country that the GOP controls the House of Representatives, according to a new national poll conducted after the end of the partial government shutdown.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Kathleen Sebelius offers to testify on Obamacare  —  HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius plans to testify before Congress about the rocky Obamacare rollout as early as next week, her office confirmed Monday.  —  Sebelius intends to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee whenever they can find a …
Discussion: The Hill and National Review
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John Fund / National Review:
Reality Check for HealthCare.gov
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Hot Air and The Hill
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama: ‘No one is madder than me’ about healthcare website
Discussion: Politico
NY Daily News:
White House deems health exchange glitches ‘unacceptable,’ GOP calls Obamacare DOA
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and National Review
Kaiser Health News:
Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes  —  Health plans are sending hundreds of thousands of cancellation letters to people who buy their own coverage, frustrating some consumers who want to keep what they have and forcing others to buy more costly policies.
New York Times:
Christie Drops Appeal of Gay Marriage Ruling in New Jersey  —  Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey announced on Monday that he would drop his legal challenge to same-sex marriage, hours after gay couples started exchanging vows in midnight ceremonies across the state.
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Reno Gazette-Journal:
Shooting this morning at Sparks Middle School  —  Police: Shooting at Sparks Middle School: 10/21/13 8:18 AM  —  Sparks police will hold a press conference at around 9 a.m. on the shooting at Sparks Middle School.  —  Vickie Campbell of the Washoe County School District said Agnes Risley and Sparks Middle School closed.
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Reno Gazette-Journal:
Teacher Michael Landsberry, killed in Sparks Middle School shooting, called a hero
Roby Brock / Talk Business:
Cong. Tim Griffin Won't Seek Third Term (UPDATED)  —  Second District Cong. Tim Griffin (R) says he will not seek a third term in the U.S. House of Representatives, citing his young family as his primary reason.  —  “God has blessed me with a wonderful wife, Elizabeth, and two precious children …
Discussion: ABC News, Politico, CNN and The Caucus
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lemonde.fr:
France in the NSA's crosshair : phone networks under surveillance  —  The future will perhaps tell us one day why France has remained so discreet in comparison with Germany or Brazil, for example, after the first revelations about the extent of the American electronic espionage programmes …
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Agence France Presse:
France, Mexico seek answers on ‘shocking’ US spy claims
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Reuters and Hot Air
Darryl Isherwood / New Jersey Online:
Lonegan: The government shutdown cost me the election  —  Former Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan (Saed Hindash/The Star-Ledger)  —  Though Republican Steve Lonegan publicly supported the shutdown of the federal government during his campaign for U.S. Senate …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
As Obamacare runs into problems, Americans still want to give it a chance  —  A new Washington Post/ABC News poll once again drives home a core truth about our politics right now: Disapproval of Obamacare does not translate into support for GOP tactics against the law.  We've long known that to be the case.
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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
One Big Problem With Heritage's New Obamacare Study  —  The conservative Heritage Foundation released last week a new report on insurance premiums under Obamacare, and the conclusion was that favorite of conservative talking points: people are going to pay more for insurance under Obamacare.
Paul Rosenberg / Salon:
Stop enabling the right: The media just makes dysfunction worse  —  Our politics are a disaster because the media — and the president — pretend conservatives are dealing with facts  —  The study of logical and rhetorical fallacies dates back to the ancient Greeks, but for all that studying …
Mia Li / Sinosphere:
‘Airpocalypse’ Hits Harbin, Closing Schools  —  School was canceled, traffic was nearly paralyzed and the airport was shut down in the northeast Chinese city of Harbin on Monday as off-the-charts pollution dropped visibility to less than 10 meters in parts of the provincial capital.
Allison Linn / NBCNews:
Food stamp benefits going down before the holidays  —  Cheyenne Phillips, 17, Angela Phillips, 44, and Cassidy Phillips, 14, stand outside their home in Knoxville, Tenn. Phillips used SNAP from from July 2012 to February 2013, and will be applying for the benefit again on Monday because her temp job ended on Friday.
 
 
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