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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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Timothy D. Easley / ABC News:
What Kim Davis Is Saying Now About Marriage Licenses — Shares- — Play
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Kentucky clerk: Issue same-sex marriage licenses without my name
Kentucky clerk: Issue same-sex marriage licenses without my name
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Kevin Conlon / CNN:
Kim Davis stands ground, offers alternative
Kim Davis stands ground, offers alternative
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Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Kentucky Clerk Allows Same-Sex Licenses, but Questions Legality
Kentucky Clerk Allows Same-Sex Licenses, but Questions Legality
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Outside the Beltway and Friendly Atheist
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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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
GOP: Defund Planned Parenthood even if it didn't break the law — Congressional Republicans say they are determined to shut Planned Parenthood down, regardless of whether it broke any laws. — In more than two months of investigations, members have yet to turn up evidence …
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Politico:
McConnell's fall mandate: Keep calm, avert catastrophe — In a POLITICO interview, the Senate leader says the GOP can do big things — in 2017. Until then, his agenda is more modest. — Mitch McConnell wants his party playing the long game. — To hear the Senate majority leader tell it …
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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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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators would back Trump as Republican nominee
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Debt-Ridden Donald Trump Lost His “Ship Of Jewels” To A Saudi Prince — I'm sailing awaaaaay... Donald Trump has made a habit of criticizing the United States for allowing foreign countries to continue “eating our lunch,” a message he has pushed for nearly-thirty years.
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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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Fox News:
Cops shoot and kill alleged gunman who murdered rookie Kentucky state trooper — A man suspected of fatally shooting a Kentucky trooper was shot and killed by state police early Monday morning, cops confirmed to FoxNews.com. — Authorities said 25-year-old Joseph Thomas Johnson-Shanks …
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WKYT-TV:
Man accused of killing KSP trooper dies
Man accused of killing KSP trooper dies
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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 …
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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Associated Press:
HIGHLIGHTS OF WALKER'S ANTI-UNION PROPOSALS — Highlights of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's proposed changes to federal labor law affecting unions, which the Republican presidential hopeful plans to lay out on Monday in a town hall meeting in Las Vegas: —Make it illegal for federal workers to form unions.
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Patrick Marley / JSOnline:
Scott Walker to propose abolishing unions for federal workers
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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Michael B. Mukasey / Wall Street Journal:
Cleaning Up After the Obama Team's Iran Deal — Show Tehran the ways it may lose what it won at the gaming tables in Vienna. — By — 'We couldn't have negotiated a better deal. " That is one of the two pillars of the Obama administration's argument in favor of its nuclear arrangement with Iran …
Jessica Goodman / EW.com:
JACK WHITE RESPONDS TO ALLEGATIONS HE TRIED TO FIGHT BLACK KEYS DRUMMER PATRICK CARNEY IN NYC BAR (UPDATE) — UPDATE: Patrick Carney responded to Jack White's statement about the alleged fight that took place between the two musicians in New York Sunday night.
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Perry Gets Winnowed — The “winnowing” of the vast GOP presidential field proceeded apace this weekend, with Rick Perry “suspending” his campaign. Officially, that means there are 16 “real” candidates left. Unofficially, CNN excluded Jim Gilmore from even its Kiddie Table debate this week, so there are a mere 15 left.
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