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10:30 AM ET, November 5, 2013

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Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Senators Grapple With Health Care Rollout Woes  —  A month into the rollout of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and no end to problems, the senior administration official closest to the law's implementation will answer questions Tuesday from a Senate panel that wrote much of it.
Discussion: Politico
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Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
HealthCare.gov ducked final security requirements before launch
Jonathan Capehart / PostPartisan:
Decrying GOP sabotage of HealthCare.gov
Kurt Schlichter / Townhall.com:
Maybe Pain Will Teach You Millenials Not To Vote For Your Own Serfdom  —  You Millenials voted for Obama by a margin of 28 percent, which will make it a lot easier for me to accept the benefits you will be paying for.  We warned you that liberalism was a scam designed to take the fruits …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and VodkaPundit
CNN:
New Jersey mall gunman found dead hours after shooting  —  (CNN) — A gunman who opened fire at a New Jersey mall Monday night later holed up in a back room and shot himself in the head, authorities say.  —  No one else was injured in the mall shooting.  —  Richard Shoop's body was found …
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nbcnewyork.com:
Police Sweep Garden State Plaza Mall in Search for Gunman
Discussion: NBCNews and Scared Monkeys
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Obama: “What We Said Was You Can Keep It If It Hasn't Changed Since The Law Passed”  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA: Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed.
Peggy Noonan's Blog:
Obama's Catastrophic Victory  —  A few years ago John McPhee wrote a great book about Bill Bradley called “A Sense of Where You Are.”  I keep thinking about that title.  You have to know where you are in time and space, you have to know who you are and what you're doing …
New York Times:
Toward Ending Workplace Discrimination  —  An overdue measure to outlaw employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity cleared a procedural hurdle on Monday night in the Senate.  The move is one step toward putting into federal law a basic principle most Americans support …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Taking Note
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Bill Advances to Outlaw Discrimination Against Gays
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Will ACA Problems Hurt Democrats as Much as the Shutdown Hurt the GOP?  —  Democratic dreams of long-term Republican fallout may be fading as Obamacare rollout issues grab the spotlight.  —  People look at a sign informing them that the Statue of Liberty is closed due to the government shutdown …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Sections Of Rand Paul's Op-Ed On Drug Sentencing Plagiarized From Article Week Earlier  —  Portions of the Kentucky senator's op-ed in The Washington Times appear to be copied word-for-word from an article published a week earlier.  —  Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Chris Rauber / bizjournals:
Blue Shield forced by state to delay its Obamacare cancellations  —  California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones will announce Tuesday an agreement with a “major health insurance company” in California to delay by three months cancellation of more than 115,000 individual policies due to Affordable Care Act rules.
Discussion: Politico and ProPublica
detroitnews.com:
Decision day around Metro Detroit; Duggan, Napoleon cast votes, keep campaigning  —  Metro Detroiters began heading to the polls Tuesday to vote for mayors and council members in some suburbs and Detroit, whose historic election includes the first council members selected by district in nearly a century.
Wall Street Journal:
Early Buyers of Health Coverage Are Older Than Expected, Raising Expense Concerns  —  Insurers say the early buyers of health coverage on the nation's troubled new websites are older than expected so far, raising early concerns about the economics of the insurance marketplaces.
Carla Marinucci / blog.sfgate.com:
We Call B.S.!  Hillary's big S.F. events closed to press  —  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hasn't even started her 2016 presidential campaign yet — and she's already shutting out the press.  —  Clinton's much-anticipated speech at the Moscone Center on Saturday …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Bret Stephens / Wall Street Journal:
Stephens: Does Environmentalism Cause Amnesia?  —  Climate-change alarmists warn us about coming food shortages.  They said the same in 1968.  —  Warming is becoming a major problem.  “A change in our climate,” writes one deservedly famous American naturalist, “is taking place very sensibly.”
Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
Democratic Robo-Calls Claim Cuccinelli Supports Obamacare, Abortion  —  Virginia Democrats are allegedly misrepresenting the positions held by Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli in an attempt to depress conservative turnout and using peer pressure to boost voter turnout among …
Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Study: 8.8 Billion Earth-size, Just-right Planets  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Space is vast, but it may not be so lonely after all: A study finds the Milky Way is teeming with billions of planets that are about the size of Earth, orbit stars just like our sun, and exist in the Goldilocks zone — not too hot and not too cold for life.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Two Days until Brief Explosion of Christie Mania  —  Only two states, New Jersey and Virginia, hold their gubernatorial elections in odd years.  Since there's generally a dearth of other political news at that time, Washington-based reporters usually decide that whoever got elected in Virginia …
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Hartford Courant:
Student Who Prompted CCSU Lockdown Apologizes, Says Incident Was Misunderstanding  —  Outfit That Alarmed Students Was Halloween Costume  —  NEW BRITAIN — A student still wearing his Halloween costume from the weekend caused alarm when he walked through Central Connecticut State University Monday …
Discussion: Hit & Run and PIX 11
 
 
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David Cay Johnston / Al Jazeera America:
Median wage falls to lowest level since 1998
Discussion: ThinkProgress, ssa.gov and Hullabaloo
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Rafael Cruz: Evolution Is A Communist Lie, Gay Rights Endanger Children
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Crooks and Liars
The Switch:
How we know the NSA had access to internal Google and Yahoo cloud data
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Those Depressing Germans  —  German officials are furious at America …
Discussion: Jared Bernstein
Associated Press:
Lawmakers push to keep Obama's health care pledge
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Tim Cavanaugh / The Daily Caller:
Twitter keeps suspending account critical of Obamacare
Discussion: VodkaPundit and The Jawa Report
BBC:
‘Three killed’ in Norway bus hijack
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Democratic poll: Gun issue helps Terry McAuliffe