A.M. Links: Sebelius Visited White House Many Times Ahead of Exchange Launch, Comcast To Buy Time Warner Cable, Rand Paul’s Team Denies He Stole Suit

• Documents show that Health and Human Services Secretary
  Kathleen Sebelius visited the White House many times ahead of the
  
  Obamacare exchange launch. Sebelius has claimed that President
  Obama did not know about problems with Healthcare.gov before its
  launch.
• Afghanistan has released
  65 prisoners despite warnings from the U.S. that some of them
  are linked to attacks on Americans.
• 
  Comcast Corp. has confirmed that it will buy Time Warner Cable
  Inc. for around $45.2 billion.
• Sen. Rand Paul’s team has denied that the
  suit he filed against Obama over NSA surveillance was
  stolen.
• 60 percent of Americans have a
  negative view of Russia, the highest since 1994.
• The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says
  that
  only 11 percent of the Assad regime’s chemical weapons have
  left Syria.

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