Oct. 21, 2016
Good morning from Washington, where policymakers don't recognize health care options described by President Obama in a major speech. Melissa Quinn fact-checks his account of how Obamacare is doing. Republican lawmakers work to get tougher on Iran regardless of who wins the White House. Josh Siegel talks with them. Some government officials would limit First Amendment protections for political content. Fred Lucas reports. Plus: Lindsey Burke on banking on a Down syndrome child's education, and Nolan Peterson on the plight of refugees in Ukraine.
"The Affordable Care Act has done what it was designed to do," President Obama says. "It gave us affordable health care."
"The Obama administration is essentially allowing Iran to do virtually anything it wants for fear any protesting by the U.S., our Western partners, or the U.N. will scuttle the nuclear deal," warns Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa.
More than two and a half years since the war in Ukraine began, and more than 17 months after the Minsk II cease-fire was signed, life remains a daily struggle for survival for the 1.7 million Ukrainians who fled the conflict.
Books, movies, satellite radio shows, and streaming video about real-life politics aren’t protected by the First Amendment’s guarantee of a free press, some government officials argue.
Faith Kleffel loves school, particularly reading and math, but the public school environment was not conducive to her specific academic, social, and physical needs.
Planned Parenthood receives roughly half a billion dollars every year from federal funding, mostly through Medicaid and Title X, a family program for low-income Americans.
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