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11:50 AM ET, September 8, 2015

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John Bresnahan / Politico:

Boehner's future as speaker in doubt — Something has changed for John Boehner.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.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, US News, RedState, Washington Post, The PJ Tatler and Political Wire

Seung Min Kim / Politico:

Countdown to shutdown begins — Congress returns from its long summer vacation Tuesday to an all-out, three-week sprint to avert a government shutdown - and no apparent plan yet to quell the conservative rebellion over Planned Parenthood that has dramatically increased the odds …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Tampa Bay Times, Washington Post, Associated Press and Political Wire

Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg Business:
Ted Cruz to Star in Government Shutdown, the Sequel

Discussion: Bearing Drift and Campaign for America's Future

Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:

Kentucky Guv Won't Respond To Kim Davis' Latest Motion To Leave Jail — Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (R) said on Monday that he won't respond to clerk Kim Davis' recent motion asking the governor to release her from jail while she appeals the contempt of court ruling that landed her behind bars.

John Culhane / Politico:

Kim Davis Is No Rosa Parks — Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk sitting in jail for refusing to issue same-sex couples marriage licenses, appears content to play the martyr's role. But contrary to her own, self-aggrandizing description, she's no Rosa Parks.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and ABC News

Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:

Ted Cruz to Visit Jailed Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis … The 2016 presidential campaign is coming to the jailhouse steps in Kentucky Tuesday, as GOP contender Ted Cruz is travelling there to visit Kim Davis, the clerk who has been jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

CNN:
Kim Davis asks Kentucky governor to free her in same-sex marriage case

Discussion: Towleroad, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, NBC News, AMERICAblog News, Talking Points Memo and NPR

David Edwards / Raw Story:
Fox News panel concludes that Kim Davis' lawyer is ‘ridiculously stupid’

Discussion: Addicting Info, Mediaite and Friendly Atheist

Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:

Second Review Says Classified Information Was in Hillary Clinton's Email — WASHINGTON — A special intelligence review of two emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account — including one about North Korea's nuclear weapons program …

Discussion: Power Line, Fox News, RedState, Scared Monkeys, Washington Free Beacon, NO QUARTER USA NET, PJ Media, Twitchy, NBC News, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Hillary Clinton to Show More Humor and Heart, Aides Say — There will be no more flip jokes about her private email server. There will be no rope lines to wall off crowds, which added to an impression of aloofness. And there will be new efforts to bring spontaneity to a candidacy that sometimes seems wooden and overly cautious.

Discussion: Weekly Standard, NBC News, Mediaite, Hot Air, Washington Post, Business Insider, Politico, OnPolitics, Associated Press, Washington Free Beacon and Twitchy

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:

Get ready for a second GOP debate with even more fireworks — The rapidly shifting dynamic of the 2016 presidential campaign will probably turn the second Republican debate into a far more contentious event than the first. — The month since the first debate in early August has seen …

Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Hillary In The Hot Seat

Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and Democratic Strategist

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
How Donald Trump rewired the 2016 campaign

Discussion: Political Wire

Geoffrey Skelley / Politico:
The Truth About the 2016 Race — The rise of Donald Trump …

Discussion: New York Times

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.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Baltimore Sun:

City to pay Freddie Gray's family $6.4 million to settle civil claims — The Rawlings-Blake administration plans to pay Freddie Gray's family $6.4 million as a settlement for civil claims in his arrest and death — an extraordinary payment in a lawsuit against city police.

Discussion: Business Insider and Associated Press

Ashley Michels / FOX31 Denver:

Aurora police on alert after threatening call to 911 dispatch … AURORA, Colo. — The Aurora Police Department was on high alert Monday after a dispatch operator received an alarming and anonymous call. It is a concern for police and something the community should be aware of as well.

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, Fox 59 and Fox News Insider

Whitney Wild / KUSA-TV:
Warning for CO police after threat, shots fired

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Michael Barbaro / New York Times:

Donald Trump Likens His Schooling to Military Service in Book — Donald J. Trump, who received draft deferments through much of the Vietnam War, told the author of a forthcoming biography that he nevertheless “always felt that I was in the military” because of his education at a military-themed boarding school.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, OnPolitics, Mediaite, Political Wire, National Review and Betsy's Page

Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:

Conservative dissent is brewing inside the Vatican — VATICAN CITY — On a sunny morning earlier this year, a camera crew entered a well-appointed apartment just outside the 9th-century gates of Vatican City. Pristinely dressed in the black robes and scarlet sash of the princes …

Discussion: Political Wire

New York Times:

The Pointless Banishment of Sex Offenders — It's a chilling image: the sex predator skulking in the shadows of a swing set, waiting to snatch a vulnerable child. — Over the past two decades, that scenario has led to a wave of laws around the country restricting where people convicted …

Discussion: Simple Justice and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Hans Bader / Liberty Unyielding:

Education Department rewards lying by twisting Title IX — The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, where I used to work, is gradually turning Title IX into a license to lie about sexual harassment and assault. And it is thumbing its nose at federal court rulings in doing so.

Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:

Joe Biden's hope-and-pray South Carolina strategy — COLUMBIA, S.C. — Joe Biden thinks he can win South Carolina. And that victory, he believes, would hurtle his campaign into a rally toward the Democratic nomination no matter who has already taken Iowa and New Hampshire. He thinks …

Discussion: Hot Air, Guardian, RedState and The Hill

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
PITTSBURGH — The calls of encouragement could be heard …

Discussion: Addicting Info

Washington Post:

In migrant crisis, German generosity comes under fire — BERLIN — Pressure is mounting on Germany and other nations to scale back their generous policies welcoming refugees, with opponents, including some of the region's most influential leaders, arguing that the promise of aid is enticing …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and New York Times