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2:15 PM ET, September 14, 2015

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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:
Discussion: Daily Kos and abc7ny.com
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Kentucky clerk: Issue same-sex marriage licenses without my name
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Kentucky Clerk Allows Same-Sex Licenses, but Questions Legality
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.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos
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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Nick Gass / Politico:
Ben Carson explains why he apologized to Donald Trump
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Clinton's Support Drops by a Third as Trump, Carson Surge in GOP Race
Discussion: Daily Kos and abc7ny.com
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   GOP senators would back Trump as Republican nominee
Eamon Javers / CNBC:
Mark Cuban: I could beat Trump AND Clinton  —  Mark Cuban to CNBC: I would crush Donald  —  Republican candidates will hit the stage Wednesday night in their next debate.  CNBC's Eamon Javers reports Mark Cuban said he would crush Donald Trump if he were head to head with him in a race.
Discussion: OnPolitics and Mediaite
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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.
Discussion: Liberaland
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Rebel billionaires eager to follow Trump into politics
Discussion: Business Insider
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.
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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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Hot Air and TalkLeft
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 …
Discussion: Jezebel and Friendly Atheist
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.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Patrick Marley / JSOnline:   Scott Walker to propose abolishing unions for federal workers
Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Inside Ethel Kennedy's cruel neglect of her troubled kids  —  Ethel Kennedy in 1969.  —  Since Robert F. Kennedy's assassination on June 6, 1968, his widow, Ethel, has been his torchbearer.  Unlike her late sister-in-law, Jackie, she never remarried, never sought a path or identity that was hers alone.
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.
Discussion: Guardian, UPROXX, Gothamist and TMZ.com
 
 
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Hungary blocks main crossing point from Serbia used by migrants
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Jason Rosenbaum / NPR:
Ferguson Commission Shines Light On Racially Divided St. Louis
Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
The One-Man Roadshow of Donald Trump
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
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The Federalist:
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
In church address, Hillary Clinton pledges to be nicer to the media
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Ian Katz / Bloomberg Business:
Kasich Says He Backs Obama on Bringing Syrian Refugees to U.S.
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Financial Times:
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