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12:35 PM ET, November 17, 2014

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Chris Moody / CNN:
How the GOP used Twitter to stretch election laws  —  Washington (CNN) — Republicans and outside groups used anonymous Twitter accounts to share internal polling data ahead of the midterm elections, CNN has learned, a practice that raises questions about whether they violated campaign finance laws that prohibit coordination.
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
As New Enrollment Period Starts, ACA Approval at 37%  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Affordable Care Act's second open enrollment period begins, 37% of Americans say they approve of the law, one percentage point below the previous low in January.
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Gallup: ‘New numerical low’ for Obamacare  —  Support for Obamacare continues to decline, with the law hitting a new low in approval, and a new high in disapproval, as the second enrollment period has opened for Americans, according to Gallup.  —  Just 37 percent approve of the Affordable Care Act …
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
SHOCK FLASHBACK: Obama Says Illegal Immigration HURTS ‘Blue-Collar Americans,’ STRAINS Welfare [VIDEO]  —  President Obama once declared that an influx of illegal immigrants will harm “the wages of blue-collar Americans” and “put strains on an already overburdened safety net.”
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Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Protesters SWARM Mary Landrieu's Capitol Hill Home
Discussion: Power Line
Washington Post:
Federal drug agents launch surprise inspections of NFL teams following games  —  Federal drug agents conducted surprise inspections of NFL team medical staffs on Sunday as part of an ongoing investigation into prescription drug abuse in the league.  The Post's Sally Jenkins explains what happened and why.
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John Barr / ESPN:
DEA stages surprise NFL inspections
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
The man whose memory failure helped save Bill Clinton's presidency  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL WHITE HOUSE HILLARY CLINTON BILL CLINTON TWITTER SOCIAL MEDIA  —  This weekend, dozens of former top Clinton White House officials will gather in Little Rock to mark the tenth anniversary of the Clinton Presidential Library.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
CBS News:
Ebola patient Dr. Martin Salia dies in Omaha  —  AP PHOTO/UNITED METHODIST NEWS SERVICE, MIKE DUBOSE  —  Shares -  —  A surgeon who contracted Ebola while treating patients in Sierra Leone has passed away in a hospital in Nebraska, where he had been flown for treatment, officials announced Monday.
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Agence France-Presse:   Doctor with Ebola dies at Nebraska hospital
Kevin Baker / New York Times:
Delusions of the Democrats  —  DEMOGRAPHICS is not enough.  —  For years now, it's been an article of faith among Democrats that the future belongs to them, thanks to the country's changing demographic mix.  The rising percentage of voters who are women, Americans of color and especially Latinos …
Discussion: The Mahablog, Power Line and Althouse
Boris Johnson / Telegraph:
Dr Matt Taylor's shirt made me cry, too - with rage at his abusers  —  An astrophysicist who deserves our applause has been pilloried in his moment of triumph  —  The other day the brilliant space scientist Dr Matt Taylor was asked to give a report on the progress of Philae …
Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Doubts about a nuclear deal with Iran as talks near deadline  —  For the six global powers in talks with Iran, the goals have always been clear — blocking Iran's path to a nuclear bomb while eventually lifting sanctions that have hobbled its economy and caused hardship for the Iranian people.
Discussion: Power Line and NPR
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New York Times:
Iran Nuclear Pact Faces an Array of Opposing Forces
Discussion: NBC News
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Before the Beheadings  —  Remembering a time when Islamist extremists wanted to persuade reporters, not kill them  —  In the spring of 2000, I lived for a month in a Taliban madrasa, a religious seminary, located on the Grand Trunk Road outside of Peshawar, in Pakistan.
Discussion: Althouse
Michael Lallo / Sydney Morning Herald:
Karl Stefanovic's sexism experiment: Today presenter wears same suit for a year  —  Follow Michael on Twitter Follow Michael on Google+ Email Michael  —  Karl Stefanovic wore the same suit for a year to show the disparity in the way men and women are judged and no-one noticed.
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Partisanship Breaks the Government  —  This could be a rather heated winter.  All three branches of government are on course to collide over partisan politics, constitutional authority and scope of power, particularly as vested in the executive branch.  —  The president has wasted no time moving beyond the Democrats' midterm defeats.
Discussion: Washington Post and Daily Kos
The Hill:
Will the Obama coalition survive?  —  The coalition of voters that twice elected President Obama to the White House might not be there for the Democratic nominee in 2016, party strategists are warning.  —  Following their disastrous showing at the polls this month, many Democrats …
Discussion: Political Wire
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
GOP leaders set sights on tax reform but fret over newly combative Obama  —  Less than two weeks after Republicans won control of Congress, acrimony over immigration is dampening hopes for cooperation on more ambitious initiatives, with President Obama and GOP lawmakers bracing not for compromise but for combat.
Discussion: American Prospect
Diane Guerrero / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed ‘Orange is the New Black’ actress: My parents were deported  —  In “Orange Is the New Black,” I play Maritza Ramos, a tough Latina from the 'hood.  In “Jane the Virgin,” I play Lina, Jane's best friend and a funny know-it-all who is quick to offer advice.  —  I love both parts, but they're fiction.
New York Times:
With Bold Park Plan, Mogul Hopes to Leave Mark on New York's West Side  —  It would be a bold addition to the Manhattan waterfront — a $170 million, futuristic park built atop an undulating platform 186 feet off the Hudson River shoreline with a series of wooded nooks and three performance venues, including an amphitheater.
Discussion: The Verge and New York Magazine
 
 
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Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
F.C.C. Chief Aims to Bolster Internet for Schools
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Jed Rubenfeld / New York Times:
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Discussion: Hit & Run
New York Times:
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Jonathan Soble / New York Times:
Defying Expectations, Japan's Economy Falls Into Recession
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
STATE DEPT COMPUTERS HACKED, EMAIL SHUT DOWN
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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Joel Kotkin / The Daily Beast:
The Progressives' War on Suburbia
Wolfgang Münchau / Financial Times:
The wacky economics of Germany's parallel universe
Discussion: New York Times
CNN:
Norovirus sickens more than 170 on cruise ship
Discussion: New York Magazine, Gawker and Mashable
Daily Mail:
‘Saudi prince paid for 9/11 pilots to learn to fly’: Incredible claims of ‘20th hijacker’ …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Daily Mail:
British medical student ‘in Jihadi beheading video’: 20-year-old ‘appears next to Jihadi John’ in sickening film
Discussion: Telegraph
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Romney says there are ‘more productive ways’ to fight Obama than shutdown