Barack Obama spoke to the nation acknowledging the failures of the Obamacare website as well as urging people to try to sign up in different ways. The website has been a colossal failure with people encountering errors and only around 1 in 10 managing to actually sign up.

I find this interesting since I have always thought that the law in itself would be terrible, the fact that with over 2 years to prepare, a functioning website could still not be designed, speaks to just how terrible it will be: even the most basic part of this incredibly complicated system can’t be set up correctly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/us/politics/obama-pushes-health-law-but-concedes-web-site-problems.html

-Lev

The United States and Russia agreed on a deal to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons, putting a peaceful end to this process. Since a chemical weapons attack in the Syrian Civil War, America decided that Bashar Al-Assad was the one who ordered it and was ready to go to war. Luckily Russia stepped in and brought a peaceful resolution to this process.

I found this very interesting since here Russia was the peaceful one, and the USA was the one that aimlessly was seeking war. It is great that a peaceful resolution was reached.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/world/middleeast/syria-talks.html?_r=1&

-Lev