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Obama in Boston: Does Massachusetts prove Obamacare will work?On Wednesday, the president will defend Obamacare at Faneuil Hall in Boston 鈥� the site where in 2006, then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed similar health-care reforms into law for Massachusetts.
Monitor BreakfastHealth-care law: 'Raw deal' for the young, says Purdue President Mitch DanielsPurdue's Mitch Daniels, the former Indiana governor, says at a Monitor Breakfast that health-care premiums for young people under Obamacare will rise beyond what is fair 'to subsidize the elders.'
It's budget crunch time. If lawmakers say no 'grand bargain,' then what?A 'grand bargain' that cuts entitlement programs and raises revenues, thus whittling the deficit in a big way, is not a likely outcome of House-Senate budget negotiations that begin Wednesday. The best hope is for a modest deal that averts another government shutdown. Is that doable?
Obamacare fiasco: Was building HealthCare.gov really that hard?Many experts say the Obamacare website HealthCare.gov, in many ways, is trying to do something unprecedented: unveil an enormously complicated site all at once and in the media spotlight.
Official tells Congress Obamacare 'is working,' Republicans disagreeAn Obama administration official offered an apology for the Obamacare website glitches during a congressional hearing Tuesday but said fixes would be completed on schedule.
Syrian Electronic Army says it hacked Obama accountsThe Syrian Electronic Army has taken credit for breaking into the Gmail account of at least one staff member at the Obama group Organizing for Action. The group is now taking extra security steps.
Millions losing health plans under Obamacare. Did president mislead?It turns out that at least 7 million Americans will not be able to keep their current health insurance plans under Obamacare, news reports say, despite Obama's assurances that they would.
Obamacare website: Is one month enough time to fix it?The Obamacare website will work 'for the vast majority of users' by Nov. 30, the White House says. No one's saying that's impossible, but hitting the deadline will be a tough task, it seems.
NSA revealed: When a spy agency comes under public scrutinyFor years, the National Security Agency did its spy work out of public view. Now, with revelations and allegations coming almost daily, that鈥檚 no longer true for the NSA.
German spy scandal: Should Obama have apologized?Europeans are once again complaining that President Obama is relying on Bush-era tactics to fight terrorism. But in apologizing, Obama did something Bush would never have done.
Kathleen Sebelius prepares to face the music on ObamacareDozens of Republican lawmakers have demanded that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius resign over Obamacare glitches. She'll appear before a congressional panel this week, where she's likely to stand her ground.
In Iowa's presidential testing ground, Ted Cruz echoes 鈥� who else? 鈥� Ronald ReaganTea party favorite Sen. Ted Cruz is best known for fighting Obamacare. Speaking in Iowa, where presidential hopefuls come early and often, Cruz focused on the economy and the legacy of GOP champion Ronald Reagan.
FocusIn three US cities, three longtime mayors prepare exits. What legacies?Minneapolis' R.T. Rybak, New York's Michael Bloomberg, and Boston's Tom Menino聽will all have successors after Nov. 5 municipal elections. Each has served at least 12 years as mayor, and all leave an imprint on America's urban landscape.
With computer glitches, has GOP finally found a way to kill Obamacare?Since it first was proposed, Republicans have been saying they'd 'repeal and replace' the Affordable Care Act. Massive computer problems with Obamacare's roll-out may have given them their best chance to do that.- 'Creepy Uncle Sam' returns! Will Halloween ad scare Millennials off Obamacare?Creepy Uncle Sam, a creation of a conservative political activist group, is meant to scare young adults away from enrolling in Obamacare. Now he's appearing in a Halloween-themed spooktacular.
Obamacare website: Does it violate privacy rights?At a congressional hearing Thursday, Republicans implied that the Obamacare website violates a federal privacy law 鈥� a characterization that prompted one Democrat to say, 'I will not yield to this monkey court!'- Obamacare website: Does it violate privacy rights?At a congressional hearing Thursday, Republicans implied that the Obamacare website violates a federal privacy law 鈥� a characterization that prompted one Democrat to say, 'I will not yield to this monkey court!'
US court cites Citizens United in allowing donation to PAC in NYC mayoral raceThe US appeals court in New York, citing Citizens United, said the state could not enforce a limit on political donations to an independent PAC backing GOP mayoral candidate Lhota.
Three reasons Obama is pushing immigration bill againObama urged the House to move forward on immigration reform. Time is running out to pass legislation he wants before the election season sets in, but the request is politically expedient as well.
Not enough pre-launch testing of Obamacare website, contractors testifyTesting was inadequate before the debut of Healthcare.gov, contractors who helped to build the Obamacare website told a House panel Thursday. And when will it be fixed? No 'exact date,' said one.
