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[h=4]The Short List: Kentucky clerk Kim Davis goes to jail; Tom Brady can play; Europe's migrant crisis[/h] Fines would not be enough. She makes $80,000 a year, and she has a lot of folks raising money for her who would pay any fines she faced.
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Kim Davis is in jail now. How long will she last?
Fines would not be enough. Kim Davis — Kentucky's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>most famous county clerk who has defied the Supreme Court and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>denied<span style="color: Red;">*</span>marriage licenses to gay couples<span style="color: Red;">*</span>—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>makes $80,000 a year, and a lot of folks are raising money to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>pay any fines she might face. She can't be fired. So what could possibly compel her<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to comply with a judge's order to issue marriage licenses to all couples? Let's try jail, the judge said. Davis was found in contempt of court and ordered to be put in jail<span style="color: Red;">*</span>until she complies with U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning's order. Her continued defiance, Bunning said, would create a ripple effect among other county clerks. (Davis and two other clerks in the state had<span style="color: Red;">*</span>stopped issuing licenses to all couples in the wake of the landmark Supreme Court ruling<span style="color: Red;">*</span>allowing gay marriages,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>but Davis is the only one who has been<span style="color: Red;">*</span>sued.)<span style="color: Red;">*</span>"I don't do this lightly," Bunning said Thursday. "It's necessary in this case." Davis, an Apostolic Christian, said she could not obey Bunning's order because God's law trumps the court. Her conviction remains steadfast<span style="color: Red;">*</span>— she has even earned<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the respect of one couple she turned away<span style="color: Red;">*</span>— so only time will tell what Davis will do next.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Meanwhile, five of six deputy clerks in Davis' office say they will process the paperwork starting Friday. Who's the holdout? Her son, Nathan Davis, who works alongside Mom.
Kim Davis in custody<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Carter County Jail)
Tom Brady<span style="color: Red;">*</span>is a very happy man today. The NFL? Not so pleased.
Point, Tom Brady.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>In a shocking announcement<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Thursday morning, federal<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Judge Richard<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Berman ruled against the NFL, nullifying the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Patriots quarterback<span style="color: Red;">*</span>four-game suspension for his role in the Deflategate scandal. This is a huge win for Brady. He can play.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>If you're the kind of person who's into legalese, you can read the full decision<span style="color: Red;">*</span>here.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>On Twitter, everyone from an NFL Players Association spokesperson to Brady’s teammates to other players had some thoughts. Check them out<span style="color: Red;">*</span>here.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>So boil it down.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Thursday's ruling confirms what many<span style="color: Red;">*</span>have long thought<span style="color: Red;">*</span>— that the NFL overstepped its bounds in suspending Brady with nothing but circumstantial evidence. Deep dive here.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>But did he cheat? The judge had to look at the whole messy case, and Brady likely got off on some technicalities. So the ruling doesn't mean Brady is innocent.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>It means the NFL failed in how it handed out the Deflategate<span style="color: Red;">*</span>punishment. And Commissioner Roger Goodell's role as judge, jury and executioner of discipline is in serious doubt.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>When will Brady be back on the field?He will be eligible to start in<span style="color: Red;">*</span>New England’s season opener on Sept. 10 against the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Pittsburgh Steelers. OK, so can we just move on and talk about football now? Not yet.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The NFL filed an appeal of Berman’s decision on Thursday afternoon. So we definitely haven’t heard the last of old Deflategate. Because chaos. Uncertainty. Headlines all year long. That is the state of the NFL.
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USA TODAY Sports' Larry Berger on a federal judge's decision to overturn Patriots QB Tom Brady's Deflategate suspension. USA TODAY Sports
Putting a name to a face and a face on a crisis
A<span style="color: Red;">*</span>gut-wrenching image<span style="color: Red;">*</span>impossible to erase from your mind —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a 3-year-old boy dead on a beach —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>brought the world's attention Wednesday to the migrant crisis in Europe. On Thursday, we learned that the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>boy's name was Aylan Kurdi<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and that his mother and 5-year-old brother also died, adding to the tally of roughly 2,000 Syrians who have drowned trying to reach Europe since 2011. Aylan's father, Abdullah Kurdi, survived. "My kids were the most beautiful children in the world. ... They are all gone now," he said. Aylan isn't the only reason the refugee crisis is on our<span style="color: Red;">*</span>mind now. Last week, 71 migrants were found dead in a truck in Austria,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>even as summer is considered a better time to make the perilous journey from the Middle East and Africa to Europe. European leaders will hold a migrant<span style="color: Red;">*</span>summit Sept. 14<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in Brussels,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>as Germany, Italy and France —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>who take in many refugees —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>want other nations, such as Britain and Spain, to accept more of them. In the meantime, those whose families are affected wait for news and pray.
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The shocking image of a drowned Syrian 3-year-old boy named Aylan Kurdi on a Turkish shore resonates around the world.
CVS decided smoking was not cool. And that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>made a big difference, the drugstore chain says.
One year ago, CVS decided to stop selling tobacco products in all its stores. A study out Thursday from CVS Health says that decision actually caused people to buy 1% fewer packs of cigarettes in 13 states.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The study, conducted by<span style="color: Red;">*</span>CVS' Health<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Research Institute, looked at cigarette-pack purchases at drug, food, mass merchandise, dollar, convenience and gas station stores in the eight months after CVS<span style="color: Red;">*</span>stopped selling smokes. Over the same period, the average smoker in these states purchased five fewer packs. And overall, about<span style="color: Red;">*</span>95 million fewer packs were sold, CVS said. What else: The study found more nicotine patches were sold in that time period, which could mean more people tried quitting. What the critics say: CVS is taking too much credit. Also, CVS sells junk food, which is bad for you. What we say: If you're a smoker, you should really think about quitting.
CVS stopped tobacco sales at all of its drugstores a year ago.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: CVS)
Taylor Swift's video director says 'Wildest Dreams' isn't racist because a hot black woman produced it
If a "(super hot) black woman" works on the set of a music video being slammed for racism, is it still racist? Taylor Swift's director for Wildest Dreams<span style="color: Red;">*</span>thinks not. Here's what happened.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Tay premiered the video Sunday at the VMAs. In the video, she is an early-20th-century movie star who falls in love with her married co-star, played by Scott Eastwood, while filming a movie in Africa. It pays homage to Meryl Streep's Out of Africa.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>What's the problem?<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Critics slammed the video for romanticizing white colonialism. NPR reminds us: "Colonialism was neither romantic nor beautiful. It was exploitative and brutal." Why this<span style="color: Red;">*</span>sounds familiar.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Swift received similar backlash for her Shake it off<span style="color: Red;">*</span>video last year. In that one, Swift dresses in gold chains and hoop earrings, and she crawls through the legs of twerking black women. Back to the video director.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Joseph Kahn had this to say (via Twitter): "My long time producer Jil Hardin who did Power/Rangers, Blank Space, Wildest Dreams is a (super hot) black woman FYI," So ...
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Today in Elections 2016:<span style="color: Red;">*</span><span style="color: Red;">*</span>“I think Donald Trump is trying to insult his way to the presidency, and it’s not going to work,” Jeb Bush said Thursday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>on ABC’s<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Good Morning America. More here. Speaking of Bush, Stephen Colbert was *not* happy about a little raffle that Bush<span style="color: Red;">*</span>had planned. Speaking of Trump, he says he signed the GOP loyalty pledge<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to back the Republican nominee in 2016.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Rand Paul opts to 'go west' to revive his campaign. And<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Vice President Biden just couldn't resist poking<span style="color: Red;">*</span>fun at<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the reporters trailing him<span style="color: Red;">*</span>on a two-day southern tour, hanging on his every word for hints of an imminent presidential campaign.
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Have you seen it?<span style="color: Red;">*</span>An overgrown sheep found lost in Australia was shorn for perhaps the first time on Thursday, yielding 30 sweaters worth of wool. (P.S. Are you following @usatoday on Instagram?)
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Chris, a sheep lost in the Australian scrubland, was shorn for perhaps the first time on Thursday yielding 93 pounds of wool: Lost Australian sheep yields 30 sweaters worth of fleece (Photo: RSPCA via AFP/Getty Images)
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