Dino Grandoni / The Atlantic Wire:
Congressman Falls for The Onion's Planned Parenthood ‘Abortionplex’ Story  —  Meet John Fleming, the unfortunate Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana who made that wonderful and all-too-common mistake of thinking that an Onion article was real and telling his Facebook followers to read it.

Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Prop 8 Ruling on Tuesday — and a Guide to Understanding What's Happening  —  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's public information office expects a ruling on Tuesday, Feb. 7 by 10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern Time in the Perry v. Brown case challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8.

Michael McNutt / Daily Oklahoman:
Sen. Tom Coburn defends relationship with Obama at Edmond town hall meeting  —  EDMOND — U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn on Saturday defended his cordial relationship with President Barack Obama and said American farmers should be allowed to plant more crops to regain America's economic dominance and “run the Chinese into the ground.”

Alan Travis / Guardian:
Internet biggest breeding ground for violent extremism, ministers warn  —  Websites now pose bigger risk than prisons, says report, prompting call to clamp down on ‘unregulated’ material  —  The internet now plays a part in most, if not all, cases of violent radicalisation …

Bill Rankin / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Court strikes down Georgia's assisted-suicide law  —  The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday unanimously struck down the state's assisted-suicide law, finding it violates the free speech clauses of the Georgia and U.S. Constitutions.  —  The court's ruling means that four members …