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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Court to rule on health care subsidies — The Supreme Court, moving back into the abiding controversy over the Affordable Care Act, agreed early Friday afternoon to decide how far the federal government can extend its program of subsidies to buyers of health insurance.
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Nicholas Bagley / The Incidental Economist:
The Supreme Court will hear King. That's bad news for the ACA. — In a significant setback for the Obama administration, the Supreme Court just agreed to review King v. Burwell, the Fourth Circuit's decision upholding an IRS rule extending tax credits to federally established exchanges.
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Supreme Court To Hear Case Seeking To Gut Obamacare
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Carol Felsenthal / Politico:
Fire Valerie Jarrett — If Obama really wants to shake things up, his closest adviser should be the first to go. — Almost since the start of Barack Obama's presidency, people who have actual, real duties in the West Wing of the White House—the working, executive part of the government …
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Roberta Rampton / Reuters:
Obama authorizes 1,500 additional U.S. troops for deployment to Iraq — 1 OF 2. U.S. President Barack Obama (L) speaks as Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel listens before the start of a Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, November 7, 2014.
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New York Times:
Obama to Send 1,500 More Troops to Assist Iraq — WASHINGTON — President Obama has authorized the deployment of an additional 1,500 American troops to Iraq in the coming months, doubling the number of Americans meant to train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces.
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Obama sends 1,500 troops to Iraq — Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama is sending up 1,500 more soldiers to Iraq to train Iraqi and Kurdish forces to fight ISIS, bringing the total number of American troops there to 2,900. — The White House said in a statement that it will also ask Congress …
Shaun King / Daily Kos:
pointergate may be the most racist news story of 2014 — What you are about to read and watch is stranger than fiction. It's so racist and so outrageous, that people are questioning whether or not it's satire from The Onion. It's real though, and that's what is so shocking and heartbreaking about the whole ordeal.
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Jay Kolls / KSTP-TV:
Mpls. Mayor Flashes Gang Sign with Convicted Felon; Law Enforcement Outraged
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Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
TV Station Accuses Mayor of ‘Gang Signs’ For Pointing Index Finger With Black Volunteer
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Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Emails Show Holder's Anger During ‘Fast and Furious’ Probe — WASHINGTON - Newly revealed emails show Attorney General Eric Holder trying and failing to contain his temper over the botched Fast and Furious probe, at one point saying “some people can kiss my a—” if they think he was too hard …
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Evan Perez / CNN:
Obama's expected pick for Attorney General
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Alex Rogers / TIME:
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin: People Just Don't Believe Obama Cares — West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin told TIME Thursday that President Barack Obama has lost his emotional connection with the American people. — “There's an old saying my grandmother would say …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Rob Portman looks at presidential run — Rob Portman is continuing to weigh a presidential run even as he leans toward running for reelection, he said in an interview on Friday afternoon. — The Ohio Republican senator doesn't have a precise timeline for his decision …
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David Garrick / U-T San Diego stories:
Peters widens lead over DeMaio — Registrar updates tally; number of uncounted ballots quickly dwindling — SAN DIEGO — Democratic Rep. Scott Peters widened his lead over Republican Carl DeMaio on Friday afternoon from 861 votes to a seemingly insurmountable 4,491 votes …
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Patrick McGreevy / Los Angeles Times:
State seeks emergency OK of license rules for immigrants in U.S. illegally — Facing a deadline of Jan. 2 to begin issuing driver's licenses to Californians in the country illegally, state officials said Friday they will pursue emergency approval of regulations that spell out which documents must …
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James B. Comey / New York Times:
To Catch a Crook: The F.B.I.'s Use of Deception — In “Deceptions of the F.B.I.” (editorial, Nov. 1), you use a 2007 Seattle bomb threat investigation and a 2014 defense lawyer's characterization of an unrelated Las Vegas illegal gambling investigation to express concern about the prospect …
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Andrew Desiderio / Mediaite:
Bernie Sanders Wants to Make Election Day a National Holiday — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is not happy that the voter turnout in Tuesday's midterm elections was so low — in fact, it hasn't been this low since the 1940s, and Sanders' own state saw its lowest turnout of registered voters in recorded history.
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
Ed Gillespie concedes Virginia Senate race — Washington (CNN) — Republican Ed Gillespie conceded the Virginia Senate race Friday to incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Warner. — Gillespie said at a Friday afternoon news conference that he had called Warner “congratulating him on his re-election” …
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