Same-Sex Marriages Proceed in Alabama as State Judge's Order Is Defied  —  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Amid conflicting signals from federal courts and the chief justice of Alabama's Supreme Court, some Alabama counties began granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Monday in a legal showdown …

BROKAW IS NBC FORCE amid Williams woes — OBAMA courts GOP on Air Force One - POLITICO's new gossip columnist — MARC CAPUTO debuts - BRENDAN DALY's new job — B'DAY: Manu Raju, Terry McAuliffe  —  By Mike Allen (mallen@politico.com; @mikeallen), with Daniel Lippman (dlippman@politico.com; @dlippman)

Obama on American politics and economy: the Vox conversation  —  In his 2007 book The Audacity of Hope, then-Sen. Barack Obama laid out his theory of America's political and policy problems as it stood on the eve of his first presidential campaign.  He worried, he said, about …

Jeb Bush Plans a Website on His Tenure as Florida Governor  —  Jeb Bush is planning to launch a website Tuesday that includes emails from his two terms as governor of Florida and the first chapter of his book about his administration.  —  Mr. Bush, who is expected to make a 2016 presidential run …

Huckabee Tears into Obama's Prayer Speech: His High Horse Is the TelePrompTer  —  Former Arkansas Governor and current Marge Simpson Mike Huckabee took to Fox & Friends Monday morning to declare that this Barack Obama guy has notions.  —  “This president has a high horse himself — it's his teleprompter,” Huckabee said.

Professor Marco Rubio  —  Inside the classroom, the Florida Republican gives clues about his political future.  —  MIAMI — Without notes and seemingly without taking a breath, Marco Rubio tears through a data-heavy speech about the “fault lines” in America's politics and what he calls “the middle-class trap.”

ISIS recruiter, once freed from Gitmo by U.S., killed in drone strike in Afghanistan  —  Story highlights  —  (CNN)He was a Taliban commander captured by the United States and held at Guantanamo Bay.  But he was let go and returned to Afghanistan.  Mullah Abdul Rauf went on to become a recruiter for ISIS in Afghanistan.

Obama prepares for divisive veto  —  President Obama is just days away from issuing the biggest veto of his tenure, with Republicans poised to send him legislation that would authorize construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.  —  Obama's veto — just the third of his presidency and the first since 2010 …

TV host asks Holder to quack like a duck  —  Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday refused an unusual request during an interview, declining to quack like a duck.  —  At the end of an interview that touched on the Voting Rights Act and use of force by police, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry asked …

Hillary vs. Warren would split Hollywood  —  A battle between Hillary Clinton and Sen. Elizabeth Warren could easily divide entertainers, creating a showdown that might split Hollywood and force A-list stars to choose sides.  —  The lines are already being drawn in the fight for La La Land's love …

Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal slams Republican party changes to primary system  —  Yahoo News 1 hr ago  —  WASHINGTON - Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal on Monday morning dismissed the Republican National Committee's efforts to reduce the number of debates in the Republican presidential primary …

Is Texas ‘Crazy’ or Is It the Real America?  —  Last week, everywhere I went in Washington it seemed as if the country's cultural and ideological divisions came down to a debate over the state of Texas and whether or not it was “a crazy state” or the “place that is still most like America.”