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Monitor BreakfastNew poll finds grim political environment with worries for both partiesBattleground Poll finds that most voters say Washington gridlock is America鈥檚 most pressing problem, as approval ratings for Congress hit single digits and President Obama's ratings trend down.
Rand Paul and Wikipedia: Plagiarism or lazy staff?Sen. Rand Paul is in a flap over speech passages lifted from Wikipedia and other sources without attribution. Will it hamper any run for the White House in 2016?
Mitt Romney says Obamacare has ruined Obama's second term. Is he right?Many presidents face scandals that undermine their second terms. But, as Mitt Romney notes, the Obamacare rollout debacle is a problem of the president's own making.
Mitt Romney: Obama 'fundamentally dishonest' about health insuranceMitt Romney has pretty much kept quiet after losing in 2012. But on 'Meet the Press,' he unloaded on 'Obamacare,' which he continues to insist is nothing like 'Romneycare' in Massachusetts.
President Obama used to be a popular guy. Now, not so much.Recent polls have not been good news for the White House. Even President Obama's personal popularity has dropped into negative territory. Can he recover to make his second term a success?
Six signups on Obamacare Day 1? Why it's a big problem ... not a disasterThe number six is a shocker. Yet even if HealthCare.gov had been flawless, initial Obamacare enrollment was expected to be low. Still, the pace of sign-ups needs to increase dramatically if targets are to be reached.
Obamacare and you: Do I have to have Obamacare?It's true: The Affordable Care Act requires all Americans to have health insurance. But not everyone has to get that insurance through the Obamacare online exchanges. Indeed, only a small percentage of the US populace is expected to do so. To find out if you may be one of them, read on.
Monitor BreakfastUS debt is hindering growth and burdening youth, Mitch Daniels warnsFormer Gov. Mitch Daniels, now Purdue's chief, says of American youth: 'This generation聽has a right to be as upset with its elders as any in history. They are going to inherit a mountain of debt.'
Monitor BreakfastChamber of Commerce sizing up Ted Cruz as it looks to hold House for GOPSome pro-business Republicans, concerned about the 2014 midterms, say Sen. Ted Cruz should 'sit down and shut up.' Chamber of Commerce chief Thomas Donohue says 'that might be one thing we could work on.'
Snowden fallout: Congress up in arms over NSA, but divided on what to doTwo top Senate Democrats released competing plans for how to respond to the Snowden disclosures about sweeping NSA surveillance: one regulates the program, the other ends it.
FocusObama approval rating sinks: a self-inflicted wound?Obama approval rating has taken a dive, recent polls show. The botched rollout of HealthCare.gov is a likely factor, but it's just one in a series of stumbles making the president appear 'detached.'
Stop-and-frisk: Appeals court halts changes to policy, rebukes US judgeIn a victory for outgoing Mayor Bloomberg, the appeals court took the federal judge who ordered the stop-and-frisk changes off the case, saying she 'ran afoul' of the judicial code of conduct.聽
Caught on video: Ted Cruz's father wants to send Obama 'back to Kenya'In the video of a 2012 speech to Texas tea partyers, Rafael Cruz sounds like a birther 鈥� ironic, given that his son, Canadian-born Sen. Ted Cruz, faces potential birtherism if he runs for president.
Obamacare and you: When does Obamacare start?There's a lot of political banter about the health-care reform law, but also a lot of confusion about what it does. Here, we answer your questions about key deadlines for Obamacare.- How much do you know about President John F. Kennedy? Take our quiz.
Over fifty years after his assassination in Dallas, John F. Kennedy remains one of the most famous and admired Americans of the 20th century. US voters routinely rank him among the best of the nation鈥檚 presidents, though historians remain split over the import of his thousand days in the Oval Office. Revelations about his philandering and health problems have darkened his image but not dimmed public fascination with him and his family, if the steady stream of JFK books, movies, and other media material is any guide. Today it is clearer than ever that his murder was a hinge of history. At dusk on Nov. 22, 1963, America was a different country, less innocent than it had been at sunrise.
Do you think you know John F. Kennedy, what鈥檚 real about him and what鈥檚 myth? Match wits with D.C. Decoder and rate your knowledge of the 35th president of the United States.
HealthCare.gov: Five questions about the problem-riddled rollout (+video) Nobody, including President Obama, is sugarcoating the problem-riddled launch of HealthCare.gov, where uninsured Americans can buy health coverage. Here are five questions about what鈥檚 happened.- HealthCare.gov: Five questions about the problem-riddled rollout (+video) Nobody, including President Obama, is sugarcoating the problem-riddled launch of HealthCare.gov, where uninsured Americans can buy health coverage. Here are five questions about what鈥檚 happened.
Obamacare: President fine-tunes 鈥榶ou can keep it鈥� promise about insurancePresident Obama defended his health-care law Wednesday in Boston while also recalibrating unequivocal statements from the past. Although his speech was a public-relations effort, it could have broader implications for the effectiveness of Obamacare.
Obamacare on trial: 'You deserve better. I apologize,' Sebelius says.Testifying before a House committee, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pledged to fix the HealthCare.gov site. She said her agency still has no reliable enrollment data on Obamacare.
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.