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timesfreepress.com:
Judge declines divorce case, citing gay marriage ruling … A local judge contends the U.S. Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage has derailed Tennessee's ability to determine what constitutes divorce — leaving one Signal Mountain couple married against their will.
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Todd Starnes / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Kentucky Clerk: I am prepared to go to jail — Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis listens to a customer following her office's refusal to issue marriage licenses at the Rowan County Courthouse in Morehead, Ky. Although her appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was denied, Davis still refuses to issue marriage licenses.
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Timeline Photos / Facebook:
Exclusive. Just conducted an interview with Cecil Watkins, the Rowan County Attorney.
Exclusive. Just conducted an interview with Cecil Watkins, the Rowan County Attorney.
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Friendly Atheist and Joe.My.God.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Marco Rubio Says Government Should Respect Kim Davis's Beliefs
Marco Rubio Says Government Should Respect Kim Davis's Beliefs
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Washington Post:
Staffer who worked on Clinton's private e-mail server faces subpoena — A former State Department staffer who worked on Hillary Rodham Clinton's private e-mail server tried this week to fend off a subpoena to testify before Congress, saying he would assert his constitutional right not to answer questions to avoid incriminating himself.
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CNN:
Former Clinton aide expected to plead the 5th in response to email inquiries
Former Clinton aide expected to plead the 5th in response to email inquiries
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NBC News:
Ex-Hillary Clinton Staffer Who Set Up Email Server Plans to Plead the Fifth
Ex-Hillary Clinton Staffer Who Set Up Email Server Plans to Plead the Fifth
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Washington Post
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Clinton Ex-Aide Likely to Invoke 5th Amendment Over Questions on Email Server
Clinton Ex-Aide Likely to Invoke 5th Amendment Over Questions on Email Server
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Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, Washington Post and American Power
Mike Allen / Politico:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump will sign GOP loyalty pledge — The Donald made the stunning decision to avoid complications in getting listed on primary ballots. — A close associate tells POLITICO that Donald Trump plans to sign a loyalty pledge Thursday that would bind him to endorse the Republican nominee, and would preclude a third-party run.
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Michael Getler / PBS Ombudsman:
More Self-Inflicted Wounds — This column is not about me, but I start by acknowledging that I am something of a technological dinosaur. I still read printed newspapers and I don't have a Twitter account or Facebook page. But the reason I don't engage in social media is only in part because I'm a little challenged technologically.
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Kristinn Taylor / The Gateway Pundit:
PBS Anchor Gwen Ifill Mocks Israeli PM Netanyahu After Democrats Support Obama Iran Nuke Deal
PBS Anchor Gwen Ifill Mocks Israeli PM Netanyahu After Democrats Support Obama Iran Nuke Deal
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Algemeiner.com
Jonathan Merritt / The Atlantic:
Why Do Evangelicals Support Donald Trump? — Donald Trump is immodest, arrogant, foul-mouthed, money-obsessed, thrice-married, and until recently, pro-choice. By conventional standards, evangelical Christians should despise him. Yet somehow, the Manhattan billionaire has attracted their support.
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Hot Air and Boing Boing
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Max Abelson / Bloomberg.com:
Inside the empire … Photographer: Evan Ortiz … Trump Las Vegas
Inside the empire … Photographer: Evan Ortiz … Trump Las Vegas
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Politico
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
Donald Trump On Ben Carson: Doctors Don't Create Jobs
Donald Trump On Ben Carson: Doctors Don't Create Jobs
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Ottawa Citizen:
Family of children found on Turkish beach were trying to come to Canada — UPDATE — Relatives of dead boys assail Canada for inaction — The two small boys whose bodies washed up on a Turkish beach Wednesday were Kurdish refugees from Kobane, Syria, whose family had been desperately trying to emigrate to Canada.
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Justin Wm / Washington Post:
Aylan's story: How desperation left a 3-year-old boy washed up on a Turkish beach
Aylan's story: How desperation left a 3-year-old boy washed up on a Turkish beach
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Ottawa Citizen, Guardian and Business Insider
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Keep Calm And Ignore The 2016 ‘Game Changers’ — If you were to rank the most exciting presidential nomination contests, the 1996 Republican race would be near the bottom. Bob Dole, the “next-in-line” GOP candidate and the Senate majority leader, built up a huge lead in polls and endorsements early …
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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality
John Croman / KARE-TV:
Lawmakers deny park ranger's “making out” report — Lawmakers question deputy's nuisance report — ST. PAUL, Minn. - Two Minnesota lawmakers Wednesday vehemently denied a Dakota County park ranger's report that they were “making out” in a car in Eagan. — Rep. Tim Kelly of Red Wing …
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RADAR:
Exposed! Libya Security Briefs, Algeria Hostage Info & More — Hacker Threatens To Sell Hillary Clinton's ENTIRE UNRELEASED Private Emails For $500K … PICS OF — HILLARY — Just as email-gate looked to be winding down, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned a person claiming …
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Liberaland, Daily Mail, Weasel Zippers, American Spectator and Israel Matzav
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Donald Trump isn't rich because he's a great investor. He's rich because his dad was rich. — “It takes brains to make millions,” according to the slogan of Donald Trump's board game. “It takes Trump to make billions.” It appears that's truer than Trump himself might like to admit.
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Washington Post, Business Insider, Addicting Info, CANNONFIRE and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Larry J. Sabato / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Populist Revolt Against Brain-Dead Politics — Take a deep breath. It won't help you understand what's happening in the contest for the presidency, but it won't hurt either. — By contrast, many media analyses of the state of the race have reached the breathless level.
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
Mika to Huckabee: Why Do You Hate Hillary Lawbreaking, But Support KY Clerk? — MSNBC Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski challenged Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee Thursday morning on why he supported the lawbreaking of the Kentucky clerk refusing to issue marriage licenses, but not Hillary Clinton.
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Ken Belson / New York Times:
Tom Brady's Four-Game N.F.L. Suspension Erased by Judge — In a major setback for the N.F.L., New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady prevailed in his battle to have his four-game suspension overturned on Thursday, as a federal judge reversed a ruling by Commissioner Roger Goodell to bench …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Treason of the Professors [Updated] — William Bradford is an Associate Professor of Law, National Security, and Strategy at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., and at the National Defense College in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He has a Ph.D. from Northwestern and an LL.M. from Harvard.