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November 15, 2013 - Daily News Briefing

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President Obama, bowing to heavy pressure from fellow Democrats and a storm of criticism from Republicans, ordered changes to his health-care law on Thursday, allowing the continued sale of insurance plans that have been canceled for Americans in the private marketplace because they failed to meet coverage standards under the overhaul. Obama said he had “heard loud and clear” from Americans who are facing cancellation despite Obama’s promise that his signature legislation would allow all Americans to keep their current insurance plan if they liked their coverage.

Janet Yellen said Thursday that the US economy has regained ground lost to the Great Recession but still needs the Federal Reserve’s support because unemployment remains too high at 7.3 percent. Yellen testified before the Senate Banking Committee, which is considering her nomination to be the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. Her remarks suggest that she plans to stand by the Fed’s extraordinarily low interest rate policies begun under current Chairman Ben Bernanke.

A suicide attacker and twin bomb blasts on Thursday targeted Shiites marking a somber religious ritual in Iraq, killing at least 41 people and wounding more than 100, officials said. The ritual, known as Ashoura, is observed every year over a 10-day period and has been marred previously by massive attacks by Al Qaeda and other Sunni extremists who see Shiites as heretics.

US mobility for young adults has fallen to the lowest level in more than 50 years as cash-strapped 20-somethings shun home-buying and refrain from major moves in a weak job market. The new 2013 figures from the Census Bureau, which reversed earlier signs of recovery, underscore the effect of the sluggish economy on what demographers sometimes refer to as “Generation Wait.”

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford announced Thursday he’s getting help from health-care professionals but again refused to step aside over his drug use and drinking. He also threatened to take legal actions against former staffers who spoke to police about his behavior, and denied making sexual advances toward a female staffer.

Iran has significantly slowed work on nuclear projects that could be used to make weapons, the UN atomic agency said Thursday in a report that comes as six world powers and Iran report new momentum in their nuclear talks. After years of rapid progress, Iran’s uranium enrichment program expanded at only a slight pace, as did construction on a reactor that will produce substantial amounts of plutonium.

The largest US public utility voted Thursday to close six coal-powered units in Alabama and replace two more in Kentucky with a new natural gas plant. At the board meeting in Oxford, Miss., Tennessee Valley Authority CEO Bill Johnson said increasingly stringent environmental regulations and flat power demand have made it necessary to rethink how the utility generates electricity.

Compiled from wire service reports

“The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” – Mary Baker Eddy

The Daily News Briefing is published Monday through Friday by The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

Compiled from wire service reports

“The object of the Monitor is to injure no man, but to bless all mankind.” – Mary Baker Eddy

The Daily News Briefing is published Monday through Friday by The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Massachusetts.

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