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5:05 PM ET, February 9, 2015

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New York Times:
Same-Sex Marriages Proceed in Alabama as State Judge's Order Is Defied  —  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Amid conflicting signals from federal courts and the chief justice of Alabama's Supreme Court, some Alabama counties began granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Monday in a legal showdown …
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Marriage Equality Is Coming To America This June  —  If there was any doubt left, Justice Clarence Thomas ended it on Monday morning.  —  U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas  —  AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman / Via s3.amazonaws.com  —  WASHINGTON — The United States Supreme Court …
Brian Lyman / The Montgomery Advertiser:
Roy Moore orders ban on same-sex marriage licenses  —  Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore Sunday evening ordered the state's probate judges to not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.  —  The outspoken social conservative told judges in a six-page letter that a federal judge's decision striking …
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Justice Thomas Objects: Court Shows Support for Gay Marriage
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and abc7.com
Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Justice Thomas: The Right to Same Sex Marriage is Coming But Show States Some Respect
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Same-Sex Couples Begin Marrying In Alabama After U.S. Supreme Court Action
Discussion: Salon, WAFF-TV, Daily Kos and Bloomberg View
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
The Future Of Voter Suppression Is Before The Supreme Court
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Travis J. Tritten / Stars & Stripes:
In his words: Brian Williams' interview with Stars and Stripes  —  WASHINGTON — NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on Sunday scuttled what would have been his first public appearance to explain his situation when he canceled a planned appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman.
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Mike Allen / Politico:
BROKAW IS NBC FORCE amid Williams woes — OBAMA courts GOP on Air Force One - POLITICO's new gossip columnist — MARC CAPUTO debuts - BRENDAN DALY's new job — B'DAY: Manu Raju, Terry McAuliffe  —  By Mike Allen (mallen@politico.com; @mikeallen), with Daniel Lippman (dlippman@politico.com; @dlippman)
Brian Williams / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
NBC anchor Brian Williams' Katrina account challenged by ex-French Quarter hotel manager  —  The former general manager of the Ritz-Carlton New Orleans, where embattled “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams reportedly roomed during Hurricane Katrina, said Sunday (Feb. 8) …
Ken Auletta / New Yorker:
Brian Williams and the God Complex  —  Brian Williams, the NBC News anchor, is taking himself off the air for, what he says will be, “several days.”  He presumably hopes that the media firestorm surrounding claims he made about his reporting experience in Iraq will subside.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NBC's Brian Williams told varying versions of rocket fire in Israel-Hezbollah war
Vox:
Obama on American politics and economy: the Vox conversation  —  In his 2007 book The Audacity of Hope, then-Sen. Barack Obama laid out his theory of America's political and policy problems as it stood on the eve of his first presidential campaign.  He worried, he said, about …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama: News outlets hype terror threat
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
David Brock resigns from Hillary Clinton PAC  —  David Brock on Monday abruptly resigned from the board of the super PAC Priorities USA Action, revealing rifts that threaten the big-money juggernaut being built to support Hillary Clinton's expected presidential campaign.
Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Jeb Bush Hires Co-Founder of Hipster.com … Right to Rise PAC
Discussion: Washington Post and OnPolitics
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Jeb Bush In Iowa: Still A Long Way To Go
Laura Barron-Lopez / The Hill:
Obama prepares for divisive veto  —  President Obama is just days away from issuing the biggest veto of his tenure, with Republicans poised to send him legislation that would authorize construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.  —  Obama's veto — just the third of his presidency and the first since 2010 …
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Politico:
Congressman's spending brings Schock and awe  —  His “Downton Abbey” decor fits a pattern of spending on resort hotels, charter flights and a personal photographer.  —  He charters private planes and employs a personal photographer.  In Aspen, Colorado, he stays at the Little Nell, a five-star resort near the ski slopes.
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Rubio, Eye on 2016, Hires a Coveted Former Aide to Romney  —  Senator Marco Rubio has hired a coveted former aide to Mitt Romney to oversee his political activities in the Northeast and probably in a New Hampshire campaign, signaling that he is serious about a presidential bid.
Rebecca Riffkin / Gallup:
Fewest Americans Satisfied With Abortion Policies Since 2001  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — In 2015, 34% of Americans say they are satisfied with current U.S. abortion policies.  This is the lowest percentage since Gallup first asked the question in 2001.
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Host: Christians Have Killed ‘Zero’ People In The Name Of Religion  —  Nearly every conservative television personality has slammed President Barack Obama's National Prayer Breakfast speech at this point.  —  But Fox News host Eric Bolling denied Saturday that Christians …
Discussion: FreakOutNation
Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:
Insured, but Not Covered  —  WHEN Karen Pineman of Manhattan received notice that her longtime health insurance policy didn't comply with the Affordable Care Act's requirements, she gamely set about shopping for a new policy through the public marketplace.  After all, she'd supported President Obama …
Discussion: VodkaPundit
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
TV host asks Holder to quack like a duck  —  Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday refused an unusual request during an interview, declining to quack like a duck.  —  At the end of an interview that touched on the Voting Rights Act and use of force by police, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry asked …
Jon Ward / Yahoo! News:
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal slams Republican party changes to primary system  —  Yahoo News 1 hr ago  —  WASHINGTON - Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal on Monday morning dismissed the Republican National Committee's efforts to reduce the number of debates in the Republican presidential primary …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 
 
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National Review:
A Creditable Plan  —  Republicans are making progress …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Katie Valentine / ThinkProgress:
The FBI Is Making House Calls to Keystone XL Opponents
Discussion: Globe and Mail
David Kocieniewski / Bloomberg Business:
Leaked HSBC List Shows Who Was Banking on Swiss Secrecy
David Dayen / American Prospect:
A Needless Default  —  This article appears in the Winter 2015 issue …
Discussion: Eschaton
Jason Russell / Washington Examiner:
Obama now claiming 1 in 5 women in America have experienced rape or attempted rape
Discussion: Power Line
Daily Mail:
Congresswomen who champion income equality are accused of hypocrisy for attending Grammys with wealthy Hollywood elite
Discussion: The Hill and American Spectator
Gillian Mohney / ABC News:
HPV Vaccine Does Not Increase Likelihood of Unsafe Sex for Girls, Study Says
Discussion: Daily Kos and New York Magazine
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Louisiana Congressman: Obama Defended ISIS With “Unpresidential” Prayer Breakfast Speech
Brendan James / Talking Points Memo:
Federal Appeals Judge Compares People Who Say Bush Lied To Rise Of Nazis
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Kerry won't rule out 2016 bid
Discussion: American Spectator
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Huckabee Tears into Obama's Prayer Speech: His High Horse Is the TelePrompTer
WGN Web Desk / WGN-TV:
Boy, 13, fatally shot on Northwest Side over Facebook post: police
Discussion: Q13 FOX News and KFOR-TV
John Fund / National Review:
Is Texas ‘Crazy’ or Is It the Real America?
Discussion: Power Line
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Professor Marco Rubio
Discussion: The Huffington Post
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

William Brown / Firstyear's blog-a-log:
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers

Karen Weise / New York Times:
Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending
 
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