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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Lawyers vow Kim Davis will violate court order and halt marriage licenses after release from jail — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Just minutes after a judge ordered Kim Davis released from jail on Tuesday, her lawyers told CNN that she would violate a court order by forcing …
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New York Times:
Kim Davis, Free From Kentucky Jail, Won't Say if She Will Keep Defying Court — GRAYSON, Ky. — After five nights in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk, walked free Tuesday to a roar of cheers from thousands of supporters …
Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Huckabee Aide Physically Blocked Cruz From Getting Into Kim Davis Money Shot — The first Republican primary is months away, but in the race to see which GOP candidate could make the most of the legal battle over a clerk in Kentucky's refusal to grant same-sex marriage licenses …
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Mediaite and The Daily Banter
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Staver: Requiring Kim Davis To Do Her Job Is Like Forcing Her ‘To Grant A License To Sodomize Children’ — Mat Staver, the Liberty Counsel attorney who is representing Kentucky clerk Kim Davis during her ongoing refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses, appeared on the “WallBuilders Live” …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Voters Show Little Sympathy for Jailed Clerk in Gay Marriage Spat
Voters Show Little Sympathy for Jailed Clerk in Gay Marriage Spat
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Joe.My.God. and Althouse
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Kim Davis supporters gather outside judge's home to hold him 'in contempt of God's court'
Kim Davis supporters gather outside judge's home to hold him 'in contempt of God's court'
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Addicting Info, WLWT-TV, Politico, WKYT-TV, capitalgazette.com, Balloon Juice, Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
Ed Payne / CNN:
Case appealed — Kentucky clerk faces judge in marriage debate 04:01
Case appealed — Kentucky clerk faces judge in marriage debate 04:01
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NBC News:
Kim Davis Leaves Kentucky Jail, Vows to ‘Keep on Pressing’
Kim Davis Leaves Kentucky Jail, Vows to ‘Keep on Pressing’
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Wall Street Journal, Hollywood Life, Power Line, Althouse, Washington Post and Raw Story
Michael Monks / The River City News:
Anti-Gay Christians Come to Judge Bunning's Home in Ft. Thomas
Anti-Gay Christians Come to Judge Bunning's Home in Ft. Thomas
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Kim Davis Released From Jail, Lawyer Says She Will Not “Violate Her Conscience”
Kim Davis Released From Jail, Lawyer Says She Will Not “Violate Her Conscience”
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TheBlaze.com, Mediaite, Associated Press, Hit & Run and The Gateway Pundit
Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton on Private Email: 'That Was a Mistake. I'm Sorry' — Hillary Clinton on Tuesday told ABC News' David Muir that using a personal email account while Secretary of State was a “mistake” and that she is “sorry” for it. — “That was a mistake. I'm sorry about that.
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Kerry taps ‘transparency’ czar for State Dept. — Secretary of State John Kerry is tapping a “transparency” czar to oversee the department's preservation of documents. — Ambassador Janice Jacobs, a former career diplomat, will serve as the State Department's first “transparency coordinator,” Kerry announced Tuesday.
CNN:
First on CNN: John Kerry appoints email ‘czar’ for State Department
First on CNN: John Kerry appoints email ‘czar’ for State Department
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Washington Free Beacon and The Last Refuge
ABC News:
Transcript for Hillary Clinton ‘Sorry’ Her Use Of Private E-Mail Has Raised Questions
Transcript for Hillary Clinton ‘Sorry’ Her Use Of Private E-Mail Has Raised Questions
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New York Times
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Kerry names State Department email and transparency czar
Kerry names State Department email and transparency czar
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Washington Post, RedState, Washington Free Beacon and Liberal Values
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Obama secures 41 votes in support of Iran deal — <p>President Barack Obama won decisively on the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday. But the Senate's war over the agreement is just beginning. </p> <p>While the accord will survive Republican attempts to derail it, the Senate still faces …
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Boehner's future as speaker in doubt — <p>Something has changed for John Boehner.</p><p>Figures in his close-knit circle of allies are starting to privately wonder whether he can survive an all-but-certain floor vote this fall to remain speaker of the House.
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Democrats have enough Senate votes to stifle Iran opposition
Democrats have enough Senate votes to stifle Iran opposition
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Ron Wyden / Medium:
My Statement on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
My Statement on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
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Senator Gary Peters, Hartford Courant, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, The Atlantic and US News
Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Ted Cruz to Star in Government Shutdown, the Sequel
Ted Cruz to Star in Government Shutdown, the Sequel
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Politico, NPR, Campaign for America's Future and Bearing Drift
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Countdown to shutdown begins
Countdown to shutdown begins
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Washington Monthly, Associated Press, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times and Tampa Bay Times
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Conservatives prepare to make stand on Planned Parenthood
Conservatives prepare to make stand on Planned Parenthood
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LifeNews.com
ESPN:
Spygate to Deflategate: Inside what split the NFL and Patriots apart — 1h - NFL TOM BRADY NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS NEW YORK JETS PITTSBURGH STEELERS CAROLINA PANTHERS ST. LOUIS RAMS INDIANAPOLIS COLTS + more
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Does the Sanders surge pose a serious threat to Hillary? Howard Dean weighs in. — With Bernie Sanders surging in New Hampshire and Iowa, Democrats now have a very real primary on their hands. This raises questions about whether something is happening among Dem primary voters that poses …
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Washington Monthly, Taylor Marsh, Talking Points Memo and NBC News
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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Biden Inches Ahead of Sanders in National Poll as Clinton Slips
Biden Inches Ahead of Sanders in National Poll as Clinton Slips
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American Spectator
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Hungarian bishop says pope is wrong about refugees — BUDAPEST — Pope Francis's message Sunday couldn't have been clearer: With hundreds of thousands of refugees flowing into Europe, Catholics across the continent had a moral duty to help by opening their churches, monasteries and homes as sanctuaries.
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Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
698K Native-Born Americans Lost Their Job In August: Why This Suddenly Is The Most Important Jobs Chart — After the Fed admitted over a year ago that the US unemployment rate (which in 2012 was supposed to be a rate hike “threshold” once it hit 6.5% and is now at 5.1%) …
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Jonathan Haidt / The Righteous Mind:
Where microaggressions really come from: A sociological account — I just read the most extraordinary paper by two sociologists — Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning — explaining why concerns about microaggressions have erupted on many American college campuses in just the past few years.
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Hit & Run and The PJ Tatler
Sarah Kaplan / Washington Post:
A white guy named Michael couldn't get his poem published. Then he became Yi-Fen Chou. — Sherman Alexie read hundreds, maybe thousands, of poems last year while editing the 2015 edition of Best American Poetry, an annual anthology that comes out Tuesday.
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Support for Iran Nuclear Agreement Falls — Public Awareness of Issue Has Declined Since July — As Congress prepares to vote on the Iran nuclear agreement, public support for the deal has declined. Currently, just 21% approve of the agreement on Iran's nuclear program reached between the United States, Iran and other nations.
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Weekly Standard, Roll Call, Slantpoint, The World's Greatest …, Washington Free Beacon and CNN
Karen Mansfield / Observer-Reporter:
Barber shop fined for not cutting woman's hair — A Washington barber shop was fined recently for refusing to give a woman a haircut. — On its website, Barbiere is described as “a high end Gentleman's Barber Shop” located on Jefferson Avenue. — On March 11, a woman, Diamond Pecjak of Crucible …
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Keith L. Alexander / Washington Post:
Baltimore reaches $6.4 million settlement with Freddie Gray family — Baltimore officials have reached a $6.4 million wrongful death settlement with the family of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old man who died in April from a neck injury he suffered in police custody, according to two people with knowledge of the agreement.
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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Dick Cheney Floats Military Action As Alternative To Obama's Iran Deal — In a speech slamming President Obama's Iran deal — which Congress is debating this week — former Vice President Dick Cheney suggested that only the threat of military action could prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapons program.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Cheney: Deal would allow Iran to nuke U.S.
Cheney: Deal would allow Iran to nuke U.S.
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Israel Matzav, Washington Free Beacon and Booman Tribune