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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Health Secretary Resigns After Woes of HealthCare.gov  —  WASHINGTON — Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, is resigning, ending a stormy five-year tenure marred by the disastrous rollout of President Obama's signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act.
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USA Today:
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius resigns  —  WASHINGTON—After a difficult five years shepherding President Obama's signature health care law, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has tendered her resignation, according to two senior administration officials.
Kathleen Sebelius / CNN:   Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius resigning
Jeff Zeleny / ABC News:   HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Resigning
CBS Press Express:
CBS ANNOUNCES STEPHEN COLBERT AS THE NEXT HOST OF “THE LATE SHOW”  —  The CBS Television Network today announced that Stephen Colbert, the host, writer and executive producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning “The Colbert Report,” will succeed David Letterman as the host of THE LATE SHOW …
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Rush Limbaugh:
CBS Declares War on Heartland of America  —  RUSH: Do you really care what I think about that? (interruption) Do you care what I think of Colbert getting Letterman's gig? (interruption) You really care about what I think about that? (interruption) Well, I'll give you the short version.
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Colbert to Succeed Letterman on ‘Late Show’
Discussion: Liberal Values and Liberaland
Gary Levin / USA Today:
CBS names Colbert as Letterman replacement
Discussion: OnPolitics and The Daily Caller
Lauren Moraski / CBS News:
Stephen Colbert to replace David Letterman on “Late Show”
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
King may switch sides and join the Republicans after midterms  —  Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with the Democrats, will decide after the midterm elections whether to switch sides and join the Republicans.  —  He is leaving open the possibility of aligning himself with the GOP if control of the upper chamber changes hands.
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Ted Barrett / CNN:
Anger over last year's filibuster fight rekindles on Senate floor
Discussion: Politico
Burgess Everett / Politico:   Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell battle on the floor
Lucy Mangan / Guardian:
When the French clock off at 6pm, they really mean it  —  A new labour agreement in France means that employees must ignore their bosses' work emails once they are out of the office and relaxing at home - even on their smartphones  —  Just in case you weren't jealous enough of the French already …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The Next Target: Condoleezza Rice  —  Having won a victory against one brilliant black woman, the Tolerance Brigade is now moving onto another.  Enter the “Drop Dropbox” campaign: … This campaign makes pretty much no sense.  The authors start out by explaining that “Condoleezza Rice is both an …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Miss. Republican Senate Candidate's Thoughts On Gays, Drugs, Libertarians  —  Mississippi Republican state senator Chris McDaniel, who is challenging incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran in GOP primary made these comment on his radio show The Right Side circa 2005 and 2006.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Miss. Senate Hopeful Chris McDaniel Riffed on ‘Mamacita,’ Reparations
Tim Alberta / NationalJournal.com:
House Conservatives Plot to Oust Boehner, Put Scare Into Cantor  —  One plan: Force the speaker to step aside before the new year.  —  Several dozen frustrated House conservatives are scheming to infiltrate the GOP leadership next year—possibly by forcing Speaker John Boehner …
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Ryan Cooper / The Week:
Why House conservatives will never topple John Boehner
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Reports: ‘Shoe’ thrown at Hillary Clinton in Vegas  —  A woman threw what appeared to be a shoe at Hillary Clinton in Las Vegas on Thursday, but the potential presidential contender successfully ducked, then joked about it.  —  Clinton was a keynote speaker at a scrap recycling conference where the incident occurred.
Discussion: Las Vegas Review-Journal and CNN
Darius Tahir / The New Republic:
Nobody Blames Doctors for High Medical Costs.  That's About to Change.  —  Policy wonks across the country were pretty excited on Wednesday.  You should be too—particularly if you think health care in America has gotten too expensive.  —  The reason for the celebration was a massive release …
Interview by Patricia Sellers / Fortune:
The Fortune interview: Rupert Murdoch  —  Defending a newspaper empire amid scandal, splitting a global media conglomerate into two public companies, enduring a high-profile divorce, and struggling to repair frayed relationships with grown children — it's been a trying few years for Rupert Murdoch.
Fernanda Santos / New York Times:
Scathing Report Cites ‘Excessive Force’ by Albuquerque Police  —  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a scathing assessment, the Justice Department said Thursday that the Albuquerque Police Department, whose officers have shot and killed 23 people in the last four years, had engaged in a …
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Tax Revenue Rockets Up, Helping Lessen the Deficit, Treasury Department Says  —  The economy may be plodding along.  But business is booming for Uncle Sam.  —  The Treasury Department said on Thursday that the federal budget deficit for the first half of the 2014 fiscal year totaled $413 billion …
Discussion: Calculated Risk
Yu Hua / New York Times:
China Waits for an Apology  —  BEIJING — In 1970, when China was in the grip of the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Hongbing, a 16-year-old in Guzhen, a county in Anhui Province, made a fateful decision.  During a family debate that year, his mother, Fang Zhongmou, had criticized Mao Zedong for his cult of personality.
Discussion: The Peking Duck
Elizabeth Dias / TIME:
Jimmy Carter Talks About Iran, Campus Rape, Jesus Christ and the Paintings of W.  —  Former President Jimmy Carter, a hobbyist painter for more than two decades, counts himself a fan of George W. Bush's art.  “He does very interesting work,” Carter told TIME in an interview by phone on Wednesday.
Discussion: CNN, Politico, Mediaite and Weekly Standard
Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times:
Science teacher's suspension spurs petition drive  —  Cortines School's Greg Schiller was removed by L.A. Unified after two students' projects were deemed to resemble weapons.  —  Rogan and Susan Ferguson say district officials confiscated their son Asa's science fair project, “Evolution of a Coil Gun.”
Discussion: KTLA 5 and Diane Ravitch's blog
Dylan Byers / Politico:
DNC blames MSNBC for ‘double standard’ over Scarborough keynote  —  The Democratic National Committee's top spokesperson has sent a letter to MSNBC President Phil Griffin accusing the network of a “double standard” after its decision to allow host Joe Scarborough, a Republican …
Mashable:
The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now  —  An encryption flaw called the Heartbleed bug is already being called one of the biggest security threats the Internet has ever seen.  The bug has affected many popular websites and services — ones you might use every day …
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
New Rule Prohibits Voters In Miami-Dade County From Using The Restroom, No Matter How Long The Line  —  South Floridians stand in line during the last day of early voting in Miami, Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012.  —  CREDIT: AP Photo/Alan Diaz  —  During the 2012 presidential election …
Discussion: Sun-Sentinel
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Contemptible John Kerry blames Israel for his own mess  —  John Kerry, our secretary of state, is very angry with Israel.  “Poof,” he said on Tuesday — describing how Israel destroyed his “peace process” the other week.  Just like that.  —  The first thing to say is that if a peace process can go …
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Glenn Greenwald Is Coming To America  —  For the first time since his reporting on the National Security Agency's global surveillance programs made Edward Snowden a household name, Glenn Greenwald plans to return to the United States.  —  Greenwald, who lives in Rio de Janeiro …
 
 
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Christie Hindash.Jpg / New Jersey Online:
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Man who introduced serious ‘Heartbleed’ security flaw denies he inserted it deliberately
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
House panel holds ex-IRS official Lerner in contempt
Discussion: The Heritage Foundation and CNN
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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Eric Holder strays from planned remarks