- With Senate Democrats rejecting three House GOP attempts to delay, defund, and cripple Obamacare as demands for keeping the government running, a partial government shutdown is now in effect.
- President Obama did sign into law a bill to keep the military running and paid during the shutdown, but some 800,000 federal employees are out of work until further notice.
- Despite the shutdown, Obamacare exchanges nationwide open for enrollment today as Americans without health insurance can start signing up for coverage.
- Retailer IKEA will sell home solar panel kits in its UK stores for the first time this month, at the cost of 5,700 pounds, or about $9,200.
- Scientists say the eruption of Indonesia's Samalas volcano in 1257 may have been the event that kicked off the "Little Ice Age" for the following 600 years.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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