A.M. Links: Liberals Join Tea Partiers to Oppose Obama Trade Deals, California Warn Against 'Measles Parties,' Assad Says U.S. Tells Him About Airstrikes in Syria

• Liberal Democrats in Congress are joining with some Tea Party Republicans to oppose President Obama's trade agenda.

• While a federal judge ruled same-sex marriage legal in Alabama, judges in many counties are still refusing to issue such marriage licenses.
• Public health authorities in California are warning residents against exposing unvaccinated children to infected children in "measles parties."
• The Syrian president Bashar Assad says the U.S. informs him of airstrikes against ISIS conducted in his country.
• A member of parliament in Somalia was shot and killed by an Islamist militant outside the presidential palace.
• NBC evening news anchor Brian Williams is temporarily off the air while the network conducts an internal investigation into his embellishments.

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