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A.M. Links: Obamacare, Ebola, F.B.I. Spying

Damon Root | 10.8.2014 9:35 AM


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    Wal-Mart will stop offering health care coverage for part-time employees in response to rising costs associated with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

  • According to a new Gallup poll, a majority of Americans say Obamacare "hurt them rather than helped them."
  • At a fundraiser on Tuesday, President Barack Obama admitted, "There's a sense possibly that the world is spinning so fast and nobody is able to control it."
  • The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit will hear arguments this week in a case testing the legality of the F.B.I.'s secret surveillance of Americans.
  • Spanish officials plan to euthanize the pet dog of the Ebola-stricken nurse as a precautionary measure.
  • In Iraq, ISIS is now using water as a weapon.

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books).