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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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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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Kim Davis Leaves Kentucky Jail, Vows to ‘Keep on Pressing’ — 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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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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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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Kim Davis's Lawyer Says She Will Not “Violate Her Conscience” As She Is Released From Jail
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Kentucky Guv Won't Respond To Kim Davis' Latest Motion To Leave Jail
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Anti-Gay Christians Come to Judge Bunning's Home in Ft. Thomas
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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
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Ted Cruz to Star in Government Shutdown, the Sequel
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Conservatives prepare to make stand on Planned Parenthood
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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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Cheney: Deal would allow Iran to nuke U.S.
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Dick Cheney Floats Military Action As Alternative To Obama's Iran Deal
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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


Biden Inches Ahead of Sanders in National Poll as Clinton Slips — Joe Biden is up and Hillary Clinton is down in a new Monmouth University national poll of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters. — Support for the vice president is building as speculation grows about his potential entry …
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Does the Sanders surge pose a serious threat to Hillary? Howard Dean weighs in.
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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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Trump: ‘I always felt that I was in the military’
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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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New York Times Replaces Its Washington Bureau Chief
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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
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Harry Reid: GOP ‘scared’ to confront Donald Trump — Reid: Trump speaks to Republicans' hearts — For more on the interview with Reid, watch “The Situation Room” at 5 p.m. ET and read CNNPolitics.com — Washington (CNN)Harry Reid ridiculed Donald Trump and the Republican presidential field Tuesday …
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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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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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Is the West Dead Yet? — Ruins of the Colosseum in Rome (Rafael Ben-ari/Dreamstime)
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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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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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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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