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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.
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Countdown to shutdown begins — <p>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 …
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Washington Monthly, Los Angeles Times, Tampa Bay Times, Associated Press and The Atlantic


Ted Cruz to Star in Government Shutdown, the Sequel
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NPR, Bearing Drift and Campaign for America's Future

Conservatives prepare to make stand on Planned Parenthood
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LifeNews.com


Watch Live: Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis To Be Released From Jail — Judge David Bunning ordered the Rowan County clerk to be released — and that she not interfere with her deputy clerks' efforts to grant marriage licenses to all couples. — WASHINGTON — Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis …
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Judge Orders Kim Davis Freed from Kentucky Jail — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Kentucky clerk who has refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples may leave prison — as long as she doesn't interfere with the licenses that her deputies have been granting since her incarceration last week.
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Hollywood Life and Althouse


Case appealed — Kentucky clerk faces judge in marriage debate 04:01 — On Monday, Davis' legal team appealed her case to the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. — “We would like them to release her from jail and provide reasonable, sensible accommodation so she can do her job,” …
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Raw Story and Warren Throckmorton


Kentucky Guv Won't Respond To Kim Davis' Latest Motion To Leave Jail
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CNN, Daily Kos, Raw Story and The Daily Caller

Anti-Gay Christians Come to Judge Bunning's Home in Ft. Thomas
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Raw Story, WLWT-TV and Balloon Juice

Ted Cruz to Visit Jailed Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis
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Talking Points Memo

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 …
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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.


My Statement on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — The Senate has no weightier responsibility this fall than consideration of the nuclear agreement recently negotiated by the United States, key world powers, and Iran. The decision facing each Senator this week will be whether …
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Dick Cheney Floats Military Action As Alternative To Obama's Iran Deal
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Cheney: Deal would allow Iran to nuke U.S.
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Israel Matzav and Washington Free Beacon


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 …
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The Note: Hillary In The Hot Seat
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Politico and Democratic Strategist

Joe Biden's hope-and-pray South Carolina strategy
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CANNONFIRE, Guardian, RedState, Hot Air and The Hill

N.Y. Times D.C. shakeup: Carolyn Ryan out, Elisabeth Bumiller in as bureau chief — <p>New York Times Washington bureau chief Carolyn Ryan will step down and be replaced by current Washington Editor Elisabeth Bumiller, the Times said on Tuesday.</p><p>The change, which was announced …
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FishbowlDC, more at Mediagazer »
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New York Times Replaces Its Washington Bureau Chief
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Poynter. and Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

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

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.
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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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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 …
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NewsBusters, Horizons, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and FT Alphaville


Is the West Dead Yet? — Ruins of the Colosseum in Rome (Rafael Ben-ari/Dreamstime)
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Instapundit


Tribune to fire L.A. Times publisher Austin Beutner — Tribune Publishing will announce Tuesday the termination of highly regarded L.A. Times publisher Austin Beutner, I've learned. — Beutner's leave-taking may be announced as a resignation. The firing is an unexpected one …
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Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, New York Times and Poynter., more at Mediagazer »

Voters Show Little Sympathy for Jailed Clerk in Gay Marriage Spat — A federal judge has sent a Kentucky county clerk to jail for refusing to issue wedding licenses to gay couples despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in late June upholding the legality of same-sex marriage.
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Joe.My.God. and Althouse