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Rubio downcast about immigration reform, casts blame on Obama
Sen. Marco Rubio gave a downcast assessment Sunday about Congress passing immigration reform, arguing that fellow Republicans are leery about dealing with President Obama on the issue since he would not negotiate fairly during the recent fiscal crisis.
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Internal TSA Documents: Body Scanners, Pat Downs Not For Terrorists
The TSA has quietly admitted there is no actual “threat-addressing” basis for employing nude body scanners or invasive pat down procedures at airports, a notion many travelers who are weary of the federal agency’s borderline sexual molestation have long suspected but were hard-pressed to prove.
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Researchers find Megaupload raid affected tens of millions of legitimate files
THE UNITED STATES government shutting down filesharing websites might be a blunt tool that harms individuals more than it helps industry. A report from Northeastern University in Boston first noticed by Torrentfreak found that while there was some copyrighted material on the filesharing websites, there were also a lot of legitimate files.
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The Quest to Get Bros to Buy 'Brosurance'
A new Obamacare ad campaign wants all you young bucks to know that even the sickest bros sometimes get sick. The campaign group Thanks Obamacare released several of its "Got Insurance" ads targeted at Colorado residents, encouraging young men to get "Brosurance" because, hey, "Keg stands are crazy."
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How Long Do They Really Have To Fix That Obamacare Website?
They've got a few weeks. But if federal officials can't get the new online insurance marketplace running smoothly by mid-November, the problems plaguing the three-week-old website could become a far bigger threat to the success of the health law, hampering enrollment and fueling opponents' calls to delay implementation, analysts say.
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White House Official Fired for Tweeting Under Fake Name
Jofi Joseph, an official in the National Security Staff at the White House, was fired last week after being caught as the tweeter behind @natsecwonk, a feed that’s been leaking internal information since 2011. Josh Rogin reports.
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Healthcare.gov will be fixed by the end of November
The administration has set a deadline for fixing Healthcare.gov, the buggy federal website where Americans are supposed to purchase health insurance. "By the end of November, HealthCare.gov will work smoothly for the vast majority of users," Jeffrey Zients, who has been put in charge of the effort, said Friday on a call with reporters. "The HealthCare.gov site is fixable. It will take a lot of work, and there are a lot of problems that need to be addressed."
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Playing the Obamacare Blame Game
According to a new Gallup poll, forty-five per cent of Americans approve of the health-care reforms, up from forty-one per cent in in August, even though the new poll was taken in the midst of all the publicity about the disastrous rollout of the Web site for the national insurance marketplace.
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Syrian Electronic Army Targets President Obama in Latest Hack
Add President Obama to the list of the latest high-profile hacks. A handful of sites affiliated with the President’s nonprofit issue advocacy group, Organizing for Action, were compromised by a group of hackers on Monday morning, according to a number of Facebook and Twitter posts sent from the President’s accounts.
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Sebelius: 'I apologize, I'm accountable' for Obamacare website flaws
President Barack Obama said Wednesday the Obamacare website is too slow and too many people "have gotten stuck" in it, adding "I'm not happy about it." The President said in Boston that he takes "full responsibility for making sure it gets fixed ASAP." He added that people who have their individual health care policies discontinued should "just shop around in the new marketplace" for better plans.
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The NSA’s Rent Is Too Damn High
For months, the American public has received a steady stream of new information detailing the massive scale and scope of the United States’ spying activities. Of course, maintaining a surveillance state powerful enough to reach into the inboxes of world leaders, friend and foe, is not cheap. Indeed, as the Washington Post revealed when it released portions of the so-called Black Budget, this year’s price tag on America’s spook infrastructure comes out to a whopping $52.6 billion.
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6 other Obamacare promises - and these are very much coming true
President Obama promised that you could keep your plan. But it is wrong to say that this alone was how Obamacare was sold to the public.
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Three Guys Built a Better Healthcare.gov
The Affordable Health Care act rollout was an unmitigated disaster thanks in large part to a cluttered website that both didn't work and was offensively ugly. Maybe things would not have gone so poorly if HealthCare.gov looked something like this.
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Google chairman: NSA spying on our data centres 'outrageous'
Eric Schmidt says company has lodged complaints with NSA, White House and Congress as criticism hardens in Silicon Valley
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You Also Can't Keep Your Doctor
Everyone now is clamoring about Affordable Care Act winners and losers. I am one of the losers. My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky.
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Put down that doughnut: FDA takes on trans fats
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday took a first step toward potentially eliminating most trans fat from the food supply, saying it has made a preliminary determination that a major source of trans fats - partially hydrogenated oils - is no longer "generally recognized as safe."
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Obama apologizes for insurance cancellations due to Obamacare
President Barack Obama apologized Thursday to those Americans whose insurance plans are being canceled due to the federal health law he championed even though he said repeatedly they could keep their coverage if they liked.
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Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site discovered
Hacktivist software designed to put a strain on struggling Obamacare website.
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Secret Service Report Noted Aaron Swartz's 'Depression Problems'
The U.S. government noted in passing that Aaron Swartz suffered “depression problems” nearly two years before his suicide last January, according to a newly released Secret Service report. The disclosure comes in a new tranche of 26 pages of agency documents about the late coder and activist, released in my ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the agency.
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Obama’s Secret Iran Détente
Long before a nuclear deal was in reach, the U.S. was quietly lifting some of the financial pressure on Iran, a Daily Beast investigation reveals. How the sanctions were softened.
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