Obama: "No sugar-coating" problems with Healthcare.gov

President acknowledges problems with Obamacare website but says the law -- including new insurance market -- is otherwise working

• Oct 21, 2013

Same-sex weddings begin in New Jersey

The Garden State, under court order, now 14th to recognize same-sex marriages; Gov. Christie drops legal action against it

• Oct 21, 2013

As Obama defends health care law, Republicans renew efforts to stop it

House is beginning oversight inquiries this week, but still little unity on best strategy going forward

• Oct 21, 2013

Experts: Obamacare website stymied by its poor design

Sources say the administration added to the problems with a decision to have applicants open an account and prove their identity first before they could shop for insurance

• Oct 21, 2013

Supreme Court to look at death row inmate with low IQ

Court will take up case over how judges should determine if a death row inmate is mentally disabled, and thus ineligible for execution

• Oct 21, 2013

Obamacare's rocky start: Hiccup or sure sign of failure?

Republicans say technology glitches are only the beginning of the law's problems, but Democrats say there's cause for optimism

• Oct 21, 2013

Was a shutdown the right approach? GOP still at odds

Sen. Ted Cruz said he would shut down the government again; other Republicans say they lost ground

• Oct 20, 2013

Nearly 500K sign up during messy rollout of Obamacare, WH says

President Obama, frustrated at the ugly start of health care insurance exchanges, will address problems to the nation on Monday

• Oct 20, 2013

Sens. Graham, Warner discuss possible big budget deal

Infrastructure, entitlement and tax reform and changes to the sequester cuts could be part of large post-shutdown deal

• Oct 20, 2013

McConnell: "There will not be another government shutdown"

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says a paid vacation for federal workers is not conservative policy

• Oct 20, 2013

Clinton makes first political appearance since leaving State

Former secretary of state praises Democratic nominee for Va. governor, longtime family friend Terry McAuliffe, as a pragmatist

• Oct 19, 2013

Cuccinelli: Obamacare debut a "national embarrassment"

Less than three weeks before election, GOP candidate for Va. governor, state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, slams health-care law

• Oct 19, 2013

Florida Congressman Bill Young dies

State's longest-serving member of Congress and defense hawk has died at age 82, said his chief of staff

• Oct 18, 2013

White House tours, victim of sequester, to resume soon

Now that the shutdown is over and Secret Service has had time to adjust to the sequester, the White House is reopening its gates to visitors

• Oct 18, 2013

Obama nominates Jeh Johnson to head Homeland Security

Johnson, former Defense Department general counsel, is considered one of the legal architects of Mr. Obama's counter-terrorism policies

• Oct 18, 2013

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