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White House Declares HealthCare.gov a Success
White House officials announced Sunday that they have met their goal to improve the Healthcare.gov website for most users, inspiring hope among Democrats that attention can now focus on successes of the embattled health care law, USA Today reports. “The bottom line is HealthCare.gov on Dec. 1 is night and day from where it was…
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Bob Dylan Charged With Racism
Bob Dylan is being sued by a Croatian community group in France on charges of racism for remarks that appeared in Rolling Stone, according to Business Insider. Dylan, who was among a coterie of folk-rock artists involved in the civil rights movement, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2012. The medal is the country’s…
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President Obama Celebrates Small Business
President Barack Obama celebrated Small Business Saturday with his daughters, Malia and Sasha, by visiting a bookstore in Northwest Washington, D.C. The Huffington Post, citing pool reports, said that the president purchased several books at Politics & Prose, including Harold and the Purple Crayon, The Kite Runner and Collision Low Crossers: A Year Inside the…
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Jonathan Martin Out for the Season
Miami Dolphins’ Jonathan Martin on Saturday was placed on the non-football-injury list, amid a simmering scandal involving teammate Richie Incognito, the Miami Herald reports. That essentially writes him off for the rest of the season. The move comes nearly a month after Martin, the team’s starting right tackle, garnered national headlines with explosive charges of…
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Michael Jordan to Become a Dad Again at 50
Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan is going to be a father again, according to celebrity magazine US Weekly. A due date was not reported. Jordan, 50, and Cuban-American model Yvette Prieto, 34, married in April after a five-year courtship. This is their first child, and they live near Miami. Jordan has three adult children…
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Clintons Rebuild Bonds With Black Voters
Since Hillary R. Clinton left the secretary of state post in February, she and her husband have been quietly working to improve their relationship with African-American voters, after it endured hardship during her first run for president, the New York Times reports. The effort comes five years after Bill Clinton inflamed tensions and created deep…
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Fast & Furious Star Paul Walker Mourned
Paul Walker, star of the wildly popular Fast & Furious films, died Saturday in a fiery crash in Southern California. He was 40 years old. His publicist, Ame van Iden, confirmed his death, but would not elaborate beyond statements posted on Walker’s official Twitter and Facebook accounts. He was a passenger in a friend’s 2005 Porsche Carrera GT,…
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Poll: Americans Do Not Trust Each Other
Have you ever felt a twinge of mistrust as you handed your credit card to a restaurant server? How about the grocery clerk? No worries. They probably feel the same about you. A new poll shows that Americans’ trust in each other has been on the decline for about four decades, the Associated Press reports.…
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White House: HealthCare.gov on Track to Meet Deadline
White House officials plan to announce Sunday that improvements to HealthCare.gov were in place by Saturday’s deadline, the Washington Post reports. The upgrade was completed about 4 a.m. Saturday, the Post says, quoting a government official familiar with the project, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe details that the administration was not…
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Wal-Mart: Arrests Made in Black Friday Wage Protests
Dozens of protesters were arrested at demonstrations around the country on Black Friday as some workers and their supporters tried to shine the spotlight on low wages at the world’s largest retailer, NBC News reports. The protesters want Wal-Mart to raise wages by 42 percent from $8.81 an hour to $12.50 an hour, which would…
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