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1:35 PM ET, December 1, 2013

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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
HealthCare.gov team claims victory: ‘We have met the goal’  —  The Obama administration claimed victory Sunday for making HealthCare.gov workable for the vast majority of users, a standard that will be tested as millions of people flood the site in the next three weeks.
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Politico:
W.H.: Obamacare site now works for ‘vast majority’  —  The Obama administration said Sunday that it achieved its goal of making HealthCare.gov work for the “vast majority” of users, two months after the disastrous start of enrollment in the president's signature health law.
Discussion: CNN, Hullabaloo, Reuters and The Verge
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
Obama Administration Declares That It Has ‘Met The Goal’ Of Improving The Obamacare Site
New York Times:
4 Dead in Metro-North Train Derailment in the Bronx  —  At least four people were killed after a Metro-North Railroad train derailed Sunday morning in the Bronx along the Hudson River, officials said.  —  A total of 67 people were injured — 11 critically — a New York Fire Department spokesman, Jim Long, said.
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ABC 7 Eyewitness News:
Metro-North train derails in the Bronx  —  mass transit, train accident, metro north, abc7 traffic center  —  NEW YORK (WABC) — Authorities say a Metro-North train has derailed in the Bronx, and multiple injuries are reported.  —  It happened at 7:20 Sunday morning at Palisades Avenue …
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Eric Morath / Washington Wire:
Senators Warn Americans Aren't Safer Today  —  WASHINGTON-Americans shouldn't feel safer today than they did before the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the leaders of the Senate and House intelligence committees said Sunday.  —  The country now faces a larger number of threats …
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Jason Seher / CNN:
Rogers: Obama administration ‘screwed up’ Syria deal  —  Washington (CNN) - Two and a half months after the U.S. backed off its threat to launch a bombing campaign against the Syrian regime, not everyone in Congress is happy with the easing of tensions.  —  In an interview that aired Sunday morning …
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
Inside the Race to Rescue a Health Care Site, and Obama  —  WASHINGTON — As a small coterie of grim-faced advisers shuffled into the Oval Office on the evening of Oct. 15, President Obama's chief domestic accomplishment was falling apart 24 miles away, at a bustling high-tech data center in suburban Virginia.
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Plouffe: Obamacare Will Work Better In 2017  —  David Plouffe, former top adviser to President Obama, said on Sunday that the health care law will improve with age and that it may take years for the law to work at its best.  —  “It may take until 2017,” he said on ABC's “This Week.”
P.J. O'Rourke / Wall Street Journal:
The Boomer Bust  —  Here we are in the baby boom cosmos.  What have we wrought?  —  The Baby Boom generation spans eighteen years.  Already, the earliest boomers have reached retirement age.  Many are getting more conservative as they get older.  WSJ's Jason Bellini reports.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
More liberal, populist movement emerging in Democratic Party ahead of 2016 elections  —  For more than two years, President Obama has endorsed reducing Social Security payments as part of an ambitious deal to tame the national debt.  But then Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) …
Discussion: Liberaland
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Puerto Rico, with at least $70 billion in debt, confronts a rising economic misery  —  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Boxes and wooden crates filled with household items bound for the U.S. mainland are stacked high in the Rosa del Monte moving company's cavernous warehouse, evidence of the historic rush …
 
 
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Bob Christie / Associated Press:
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Megan McArdle / Bloomberg:
A Fight Over Contraception Won't Help Obamacare
Tracy McVeigh / Guardian:
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