10 things you need to know today: November 30, 2013

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1. ObamaCare website gets last-minute upgrades before deadline

The Obama administration took HealthCare.gov offline for 11 hours overnight, ending at 8 a.m.Saturday, to complete upgrades as a self-imposed deadline to fix glitches arrived. The administration promised to have the ObamaCare website ready to handle 50,000 users at a time, although officials are worried the site might be swamped by far heavier traffic. The second unveiling is a crucial test for the system, after a disastrous Oct. 1 launch prevented most visitors from enrolling for health insurance. [Reuters]

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.