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Mike Wynn / USA Today:
Kentucky clerk Kim Davis won't authorize licenses — LOUISVILLE — In returning to work Monday, Kim Davis, the embattled Kentucky county clerk at the center of the dispute over gay marriage and religious liberty, indicated that she will not interfere with any deputy clerk who issues marriage licenses …
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Religion News Service and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
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Kevin Conlon / CNN:
Kim Davis stands ground, offers alternative — (CNN)Kim Davis, county clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, returned to work Monday, saying she will not issue any marriage licenses that go against her religious beliefs — but she left the door open for her deputies to continue to issue marriage licenses …
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post, Scared Monkeys, NBC News and Prairie Weather
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
WATCH: Kim Davis' lawyer who compared her to Rosa Parks and MLK now compares her to Abraham Lincoln
WATCH: Kim Davis' lawyer who compared her to Rosa Parks and MLK now compares her to Abraham Lincoln
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Talking Points Memo and Addicting Info
Washington Post:
Poll: Trump, Carson top GOP race; Clinton leads Dems but support drops — Two non-politicians, businessman Donald Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, dominate the contest for the Republican nomination, together accounting for more than half of the potential vote as support …
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Political Wire, Outside the Beltway, Washington Times, Media Nation and CBS News
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators would back Trump as Republican nominee
GOP senators would back Trump as Republican nominee
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Political Wire
Washington Post:
Sanders brings surging campaign to two very different parts of Virginia on Monday
Sanders brings surging campaign to two very different parts of Virginia on Monday
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Political Wire, Slantpoint and Common Dreams
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Slipping far back in polls, can Jeb Bush bounce back in the next debate?
Slipping far back in polls, can Jeb Bush bounce back in the next debate?
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American Spectator and WPLG-TV
William Jordan / YouGov US Opinion Center News:
Sanders up big in New Hampshire and Iowa; Carson trails Trump
Sanders up big in New Hampshire and Iowa; Carson trails Trump
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
The GOP at war — Forget presidential politics. — The real action in American politics these days is the in-house feud among Republicans. It features the center-right GOP establishment in one corner and the talk show hosts and Tea Party activists in the other.
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Prairie Weather
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Now-classified Clinton emails sitting on Google servers — Aides to the former secretary of state sent sensitive messages through Gmail and other private email services. — Classified emails passed through commercial email services like Google and AOL on their path to or from a private server maintained …
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TalkLeft
John Heilemann / Bloomberg Business:
Biden Secretly Meets With Top Obama Bundler During New York Swing — The 28 hours Joe Biden spent in New York City at the end of last week were a whirlwind of activity—much of it feeding the mounting speculation that he is inching ever closer to launching a late-starting presidential campaign.
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ABC News, NBC News, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Rebel billionaires eager to follow Trump into politics — The Donald's success has Mark Cuban considering a run for office. He's not the only famously rich guy suddenly inspired. — Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is so impressed with Donald Trump's success that he is now considering running for office himself.
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Political Wire
Timothy Snyder / New York Times:
The Next Genocide — New Haven — BEFORE he fired the shot, the Einsatzgruppe commander lifted the Jewish child in the air and said, “You must die so that we can live.” As the killing proceeded, other Germans rationalized the murder of Jewish children in the same way: them or us.
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Slantpoint and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
John Oliver Announces The Shuttering Of His Megachurch, Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption — John Oliver announced the inevitable in a letter on Sunday: He's closing his month-old church, Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption. — Oliver established his own church in mid-August after realizing …
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Jezebel and Friendly Atheist
The Federalist:
Will New Obamacare Rule Force Insurers To Fund Sex-Changes? — Taxpayers could wind up paying for sex-change operations under an Obamacare rule proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services. Yes, the same Obama administration that effectively endorsed Planned Parenthood's organ-trafficking scheme …
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