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Kim Davis Leaves Kentucky Jail — But Dispute Continues — A Kentucky clerk who defied orders to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples was released from jail Tuesday, but her lawyer says she will continue to resist until officials find a way to accommodate her religious opposition to gay unions.
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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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Rasmussen Reports:
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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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Kim Davis's Lawyer Says She Will Not “Violate Her Conscience” As She Is 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.
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Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Kim Davis Freed From Jail in Kentucky Gay Marriage Dispute — Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed last week after she defied a court's order that she issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, was ordered released on Tuesday. — In a two-page order issued Tuesday …
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Ed Payne / CNN:
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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Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Staver: Requiring Kim Davis To Do Her Job Is Like Forcing Her ‘To Grant A License To Sodomize Children’
Staver: Requiring Kim Davis To Do Her Job Is Like Forcing Her ‘To Grant A License To Sodomize Children’
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Kentucky Guv Won't Respond To Kim Davis' Latest Motion To Leave Jail
Kentucky Guv Won't Respond To Kim Davis' Latest Motion To Leave Jail
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CNN:
Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee to meet with jailed Kentucky Clerk
Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee to meet with jailed Kentucky Clerk
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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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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.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
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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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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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Conservatives prepare to make stand on Planned Parenthood
Conservatives prepare to make stand on Planned Parenthood
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Ron Wyden / Medium:
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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Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:
Dick Cheney Floats Military Action As Alternative To Obama's Iran Deal
Dick Cheney Floats Military Action As Alternative To Obama's Iran Deal
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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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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 …
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Amy Chozick / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton to Show More Humor and Heart, Aides Say
Hillary Clinton to Show More Humor and Heart, Aides Say
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
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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Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
New York Times Replaces Its Washington Bureau Chief
New York Times Replaces Its Washington Bureau Chief
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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
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.
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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 …
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Hillary In The Hot Seat
The Note: Hillary In The Hot Seat
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
John McAfee Email: ‘My Staff Is Filing The Paperwork’ For Presidential Run — Antivirus software guru and self-described “eccentric millionaire” John McAfee said he planned on Tuesday to file paperwork to run for President, according to an email obtained by TPM.
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Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Is the West Dead Yet? — Ruins of the Colosseum in Rome (Rafael Ben-ari/Dreamstime)
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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 …
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