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Friday, October 25, 2013

Cheat Sheet - Sorry, Europe, We’re Still Spying on You

Today: GOP Faction Pushing Immigration , Little Maria's Real Roma Mother Found In Bulgaria , 7.3-Magnitude Earthquake Hits Japan
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

October 25, 2013
PEEKABOO

In light of recent revelations of a massive U.S. global eavesdropping campaign, European leaders are competing to sound the most outraged at the NSA program. But the spying will continue, says Christopher Dickey—it always does.

More Drama

As post-shutdown Washington begins to return to the topic of immigration reform, a conservative coalition that includes business leaders, evangelical leaders, and GOP activists is pushing for House Republicans to consider reform legislation. House Speaker John Boehner and majority leader Eric Cantor support the GOP taking up its own immigration bill since the Senate has passed comprehensive legislation. But hard-line House conservatives are digging in, saying they're in no mood to negotiate after badly losing the shutdown batle to Obama. They say they will not bow to pressure from groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform. 

IT'S A MATCH

DNA tests have confirmed that the mother of the little blond girl taken from a dark-haired Roma family in Greece is a Roma woman living in Bulgaria, and she says the child was never sold or stolen. Barbie Latza Nadeau reports on the story's latest twist and Europe's problems with racial profiling.

DEVELOPING

Residents near Japan's Fukushima Prefecture coastline are scrambling to reach higher ground after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake rattled through the area. Officials announced a tsunami advisory minutes after the quake, but said that there is "no widespread tsunami threat" at the moment. The epicenter of the earthquake, which apparently left the nearby Onagawa nuclear power plant unharmed, was less than 300 miles from Tokyo.

 

GONE 'TIL NOVEMBER

Frustrated with trying to enroll on HealthCare.gov? Try again in a month. According Jeff Zients, the Obama appointee tasked with smoothing out the site's kinks, that's how long it'll take to get the glitchy online marketplace fully functional. "Let me be clear: HealthCare.gov is fixable," he said. Most of the "front end" problems have already been cleared up and 90 percent of people can create accounts. After that, it all sort of falls apart and only 3 in ten users have found success viewing plans and actually enrolling. A private firm, QSSI, was selected to be in charge of the effort.


New Revelation
JonBenet's Parents Were Indicted
Prosecutors decided not to pursue charges.
CRACKDOWN
FDA Wants New Painkiller Limits
To halt rampant abuse.
Deadly Ride
5 Hurt in NC State Fair Accident
Thrown from carnival ride.
TWISTED
Man Tried to Hire KKK Killer
To hang neighbor he suspected of rape.
THE END
Orlando Bloom, Miranda Kerr Split
After three years of marriage.
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