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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Kim Davis, Kentucky County Clerk, Met Pope Francis  —  Pope Francis met privately in Washington last week with Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who defied a court order to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a Vatican spokesman confirmed on Wednesday.
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lc.org:
Pope Francis Met Privately With Kim Davis and Encouraged Her to “Stay Strong”  —  Washington, DC - Media is buzzing about the Pope's comments in support of conscientious objection and whether he knows about the Rowan County, Kentucky, Clerk of Court who was jailed for six days for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
Emma Green / The Atlantic:
Pope Francis Met With Kim Davis: What Does It Mean?
Jay Olstad / KARE-TV:
Guest gets bill after not showing up to wedding  —  Wedding guests billed for missed meals  —  GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. - It was a couple weeks ago, Jessica Baker was getting ready to go to a wedding with her husband when she got a call from her mom.  —  “She called at the last minute …
Fox News:
Russians tell US to remove warplanes from Syria, senior official says  —  EXCLUSIVE: Russian officials have demanded that American warplanes exit Syrian airspace immediately, a senior U.S. official told Fox News early Wendesday.  —  The official told Fox News that Russian diplomats sent …
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CNN:
‘They are ready’  —  Russian airstrikes in Syria could happen at any time, a U.S. official with knowledge of the latest intelligence told CNN this week.  —  “They could start at any moment,” the official said.  “They are ready.”  —  After several days of Russian familiarization flights …
Luis Martinez / ABC News:   US Confirms Russian Airstrikes in Syria
Ana Marie Cox / The Daily Beast:
Car-Lying: Carly Fiorina Lies Like a Boss  —  The surging GOP presidential contender's meaningless specifics are a marketing ploy, not a policy.  —  The Central Intelligence Agency has some tips for spotting liars.  Unfortunately, most of them also sound like stage directions for a GOP primary candidate: “Failing to answer.”
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Nick Corasaniti / New York Times:
Carly Fiorina's ‘Super PAC’ Aids Her Campaign, in Plain Sight
Discussion: Althouse
Pete Kasperowicz / Washington Examiner:
Lawmaker: Trey Gowdy to leave the House after 2016  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  Rep. John Fleming, R-La., said Wednesday morning that Tea Party favorite Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., won't run for a fourth term, and instead plans to retire at the end of the current Congress to return to his home state.
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Politico:
Boehner secretly urged Gowdy to run for leader  —  The previously undisclosed meeting reveals new behind-the-scenes involvement by the exiting speaker.  —  Speaker John Boehner secretly met with Rep. Trey Gowdy Tuesday to encourage him to jump into the race for House majority leader …
Sarah Posner / Talking Points Memo:
Rep Gunning For Boehner's Job Has Long History With Fringey Duggar Ministry
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Boehner's likely successor credits Benghazi committee for lowering Hillary Clinton's poll numbers  —  Sean Hannity was pushing hard, asking House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy to name some promises his Republicans had actually delivered on.  He scoffed when McCarthy said the party …
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Kevin McCarthy, House Speaker Favorite, Under Fire for Benghazi Comment
Discussion: Daily Kos and Guardian
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Leader Takes Pride In Benghazi Committee Hurting Hillary's Poll Numbers
Discussion: Mock Paper Scissors
Indianapolis Star:
Last Slide  —  Rep. Jud McMillin, a rising star in the state's Republican Party, abruptly resigned Tuesday.  —  The Indianapolis Star has learned that the surprise resignation came after a sexually explicit video was sent via text message from McMillin's cell phone.
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Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
Top Indiana Repub quits after sexually-explicit video is sent from his ‘stolen’ cell phone
Fox 59:
Kentucky Waffle House refuses service to soldier in uniform … A social media post about an armed soldier who was refused service at a Kentucky restaurant is going viral.  —  According to WLEX, Billy Welch is an Army National Guard soldier.  Welch says he always keeps his gun holstered to his side for safety reasons.
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LEX18.com:
Restaurant Refuses Service To Soldier For Carrying Firearm  —  Over the weekend, a soldier with the National Guard was told to leave his gun outside of the Nicholasville Waffle House or he wouldn't be served.  The situation is now getting national attention.
Rick Klein / ABC News:
Jeb Bush on Washington Redskins Team Name: 'I Don't Think It Should Change'  —  Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is siding with the Washington Redskins' right to keep the team's name, despite protests from Native American groups and pressure from Congress to force a change.
Discussion: CBS DC, OnPolitics, Mashable and The Week
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Bush on Redskins: 'I don't find it offensive'
Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC 29733, USA:
Current Findings  —  For methodological questions please read the full Methodology Statement  —  ROCK HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA - Two-thirds of South Carolina residents surveyed in the latest Winthrop Poll thought the S.C. Legislature made the right decision this summer to remove the Confederate battle flag from the State House grounds.
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John Hammontree / al.com:
Should this new Southern flag replace the Confederate battle flag?
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Paul on Cruz: He's pretty much done for in the Senate  —  Rand Paul on Tuesday had a blunt message for his presidential rival and fellow Republican senator Ted Cruz: You're a hack.  —  In no uncertain terms, Paul called out Cruz for trying — and failing — to disrupt GOP leadership's efforts …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate passes funding bill to avert government shutdown
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Week
WXIA-TV:
Kelly Renee Gissendaner executed by lethal injection  —  JACKSON, GA (WXIA) — Kelly Renee Gissendaner, the only woman on Georgia's death row, was executed at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson early Wednesday.  She was the first woman to be executed in the state in the past 70 years.
 
 
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Adrienne Lafrance / The Atlantic:
Self-Driving Cars Could Save 300,000 Lives Per Decade in America
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Michael Gartland / New York Post:
City Council honors Ethel Rosenberg for ‘great bravery’
Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal:
Sanders Campaign Says It's Hit One Million Online Contributions
Discussion: Progress Pond
People.com:
At Home with Donald Trump and His Family
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
A mob in India just dragged a man from his home and beat him to death — for eating beef
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Boehner, McConnell, Obama to take last stab at budget deal
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Federalist
Politico:
Senate Dems meet to plot 2016 attacks on wealthy Koch brothers
Discussion: EcoWatch
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Mary Lynn Smith Star / Star Tribune:
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Discussion: Power Line and Hot Air
Politico:
For Hill Republicans, the glass ceiling is shatter-proof
Discussion: ABC News and The Week
Andrea Cavallier / New York's PIX11:
Mother charged in death of baby thrown from window of Bronx building: police
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Donald Trump's saving grace: Televangelists
Discussion: The Week
New York Times:
Donna Shalala, President of Clinton Foundation, Has Stroke
Discussion: Fox News and Politico