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5:40 PM ET, September 14, 2015

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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Poll: Sharp erosion in Clinton support among Democratic women  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hillary Rodham Clinton is suffering rapid erosion of support among Democratic women — the voters long presumed to be her bedrock in her bid to become the nation's first female president.
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Ben Carson explains why he apologized to Donald Trump  —  Ben Carson is turning the other cheek.  —  The retired neurosurgeon explained his apology to Donald Trump in a new interview, saying that he was not questioning the real estate mogul's faith but rather talking about his own.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:
Why Are Women Ditching Hillary?  —  Earlier this year Hillary Clinton seemed to have the female vote locked down, so why is she now having to work so hard to convince them to support with her campaign?  —  The Clinton campaign went into overdrive this week to shore up support among voters …
Discussion: RedState
Washington Post:
Poll: Trump, Carson top GOP race; Clinton leads Dems but support drops
Gary Langer / ABC News:
Clinton's Support Drops by a Third as Trump, Carson Surge in GOP Race
Discussion: The Stranger … and Daily Kos
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
Discussion: Daily Kos and abc7ny.com
Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Kentucky Clerk Allows Same-Sex Licenses, but Questions Legality
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Kentucky clerk: Issue same-sex marriage licenses without my name
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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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
Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
GOP: Defund Planned Parenthood even if it didn't break the law
Discussion: Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo
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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Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Is Trump killing justice reform?  —  Don't look now, but The Donald is actually shaping American policy.  —  Criminal justice reform, a perennial lost cause for civil rights lefties, had its surprise bipartisan moment this year.  Conservative Republican voices like anti-tax activist Grover Norquist …
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Rebel billionaires eager to follow Trump into politics
Discussion: Business Insider
Danny Wicentowski / News Blog, Riverfront Times:
The Ferguson Commission Has Released its Long-Awaited Report.  Now What?  —  The Ferguson Commission wasn't built just to churn out a report.  —  Assembled by an executive order from Governor Jay Nixon, the commission's sixteen members have spent the past ten months compiling data, holding public hearings and listening to experts.
Discussion: The Atlantic and Raw Story
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Jason Rosenbaum / NPR:
Ferguson Commission Shines Light On Racially Divided St. Louis
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Democrats Lay Groundwork to Expand Use of ‘Super PACs’  —  Democrats are laying the groundwork for an ambitious reorganization of their struggling network of “super PACs” that would exploit the loopholes and legal gray areas that Republicans have already used to raise hundreds of millions …
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Political Wire
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Perry Gets Winnowed
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.
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.
Raw Story:
Arnold Schwarzenegger to take over for Donald Trump on Celebrity Apprentice  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  “You're terminated”?  “You won't be back”?  “Hasta la vista, job seeker”?  —  Arnold Schwarzenegger is to replace Donald Trump as the host of the NBC reality show …
Discussion: Deadline, UPROXX and Progress Pond
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Kate Stanhope / Hollywood Reporter:
Arnold Schwarzenegger Named New ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Host
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
John O'Brien / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Child victims partly to blame in priest sex-abuse cases, Syracuse bishop testified  —  SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The victims of child-molesting priests are partly to blame for their own abuse, the bishop of Syracuse said in a sworn deposition that revealed his views on the church's sex abuse scandal.
Discussion: Raw Story and Friendly Atheist
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: Mediaite, Jezebel and Friendly Atheist
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 …
 
 
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Lucas Tomlinson / Fox News:
Russia shipping tanks into Syria, in ‘first clear sign of offensive weapons’
Clyde Haberman / New York Times:
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Discussion: Poynter. and Jezebel
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
U.S. drops to 16th on ‘economic freedom’ list, behind Canada, Chile
Reuters:
Ad invokes Reagan to attack Republicans' hard line on immigration
Discussion: Hot Air and FOX News Radio
Daily Mail:
Hungary blocks main crossing point from Serbia used by migrants
Discussion: Hot Air
 Earlier Items: 
Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
The One-Man Roadshow of Donald Trump
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Poynter.
Associated Press:
HIGHLIGHTS OF WALKER'S ANTI-UNION PROPOSALS
Discussion: Daily Kos and JSOnline
Fox News:
Cops shoot and kill alleged gunman who murdered rookie Kentucky state trooper
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
A scarcity of economic growth
Discussion: Hit & Run
The Federalist:
Will New Obamacare Rule Force Insurers To Fund Sex-Changes?
Discussion: Erick on the Radio
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Now-classified Clinton emails sitting on Google servers
Discussion: Hot Air and TalkLeft