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8:20 PM ET, May 23, 2015

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In Early Vote Count, Ireland Appears Headed Toward Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage — DUBLIN — Ireland appeared poised to become the world's first nation to approve same-sex marriage by a popular vote on Saturday, with early vote counts showing strong and broad support for a measure …

Discussion: The American Conservative, Slate, The Atlantic, Outside the Beltway, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Agonist, Political Wire, Discourse.net, The Week and Common Dreams

Chris Johnston / Guardian:

Ireland becomes first country to legalise same-sex marriage by popular vote - live — With almost all of the results in, Ireland has voted a historic Yes in its gay marriage referendum … Share — With 34 constituencies now declared, the Yes vote is 61.7% and No at 38.3%.

Discussion: Towleroad News #gay, Balloon Juice, Common Dreams, POLITICO, Mediaite, Mashable, PinkNews, NPR and New York Times

CNN:

Early indications suggest Ireland voters back same-sex marriage referendum — Ireland counts ballots in same-sex marriage vote 01:49 — Story highlights — Dublin, Ireland (CNN)Early indications are that Ireland has voted in favor of same-sex marriage, Irish media reported Saturday …

Discussion: Reuters, Washington Post, Telegraph, Advocate and The Hugh Hewitt Show

BBC:
Ireland same-sex referendum set to approve gay marriage

Discussion: Chicago Boyz, Mashable and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Associated Press: Both sides say Ireland has voted to legalize gay marriage

CNN:

Cleveland officer not guilty in killing unarmed pair — Story highlights — (CNN)A white Cleveland police officer who stood on a car and shot the vehicle's two unarmed black occupants after colleagues already riddled the car with bullets in 2012 was found not guilty Saturday in their deaths …

Discussion: The Atlantic, ABC News, NBC News, Liberaland, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Common Dreams and Scared Monkeys

Mitch Smith / New York Times:

Cleveland Police Officer Acquitted of Manslaughter in 2012 Deaths — A Cleveland police officer who climbed onto the hood of a car after a chase and fired repeatedly at its unarmed occupants in 2012 was acquitted of manslaughter on Saturday by an Ohio judge.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Mediaite

Washington Post:

Cleveland officer acquitted in killing of unarmed pair amid 137-shot barrage — A Cleveland police officer was acquitted Saturday for his role in the 2012 fatal shooting of two unarmed people in a car after officers mistook the sound of the car backfiring as gunshots.

Discussion: PoliPundit.com and The Week

Mark Hensch / The Hill:

Fiorina: Clinton ‘must not be president’ — GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina on Saturday accused President Obama and his former secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, of poorly representing America's interests on the world stage. — “The world is a dangerous and tragic place …

Discussion: Raw Story

Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:

Ben Carson: 'Don't Let The Secular Progressives Drive God Out Of Our Lives' — Ben Carson, the 2016 Republican presidential candidate and Tea Party darling, told Republicans on Saturday that they shouldn't allow the government to encroach on their religious liberties.

Discussion: Raw Story

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
What Hillary Clinton's e-mails tell us about her management style

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Liberal Values, Outside the Beltway, CANNONFIRE, Prairie Weather, Wall Street Journal, WSJ, The Atlantic and McClatchy Washington Bureau

Dylan Byers / Politico:
The Clinton team praises Monica Langley

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and Mediaite

National Journal:

How the Senate Fell Apart and Failed to Deal With the Patriot Act — The Senate leaves for vacation with unfinished business on NSA surveillance. — The Senate is going on vacation, but it didn't finish its homework. — With no solution in sight to the Patriot Act quagmire …

Discussion: BetaNews, McClatchy Washington Bureau, Guardian, Booman Tribune, Business Insider, Daily Kos, Washington Monthly, The Verge and Mediaite

The Hill: Administration moves to end bulk data collection

Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Senate adjourns with no clear path forward on Patriot Act

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Prairie Weather

Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Senate Blocks Bill on N.S.A. Collection of Phone Records

Discussion: The Hill, The Atlantic, Techdirt, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post and Politico

Julia Marsh / New York Post:

City orders Sharpton's daughter to save incriminating hiking pics — City lawyers warned Dominique Sharpton not to delete Instagram photos like this one atop an Indonesian mountain — where she trekked while claiming in a lawsuit that she has “permanent” injuries.

Discussion: Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, BizPac Review, Scared Monkeys and The Gateway Pundit

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:

The GOP's Southern discomfort — As the 2016 Republican presidential campaign gets underway, the nation's most reliably red region finds itself yet again without a native son in a leading position. — OKLAHOMA CITY — It's the heartland of the modern Republican Party, the most reliably red region in presidential elections.

Discussion: ABC News

Paul Waldman / The Week:
Fox News is taking control of the Republican primary

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Balloon Juice and FiveThirtyEight

Phillip Inman / Guardian:

Secret Bank of England taskforce investigates financial fallout of Brexit — News of undercover project emerges after Bank staff accidentally email details to the Guardian including PR notes on how to deny its existence — Bank of England officials are secretly researching the financial shocks …

Discussion: Daily Mail, The Week and NPR

Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:

Islamic State burned a woman alive for not engaging in an ‘extreme’ sex act, U.N. official says — Amid all the Islamic State's atrocities — its massacres of civilians, its beheading of hostages, its pillaging of antiquities — the systematic violence the jihadists have carried …

Discussion: Toronto Star and Weasel Zippers