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6:50 AM ET, September 21, 2015

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Carson doubles down on no Muslims in the White House  —  Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson is standing by his view that a Muslim should not be president of the United States, telling The Hill in an interview on Sunday that whoever takes the White House should be “sworn in on a stack of Bibles, not a Koran.”
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Sanders scolds Carson for Muslim remark  —  Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says GOP candidate Ben Carson was out of line to suggest that a Muslim shouldn't be president.  —  “I am very disappointed that Dr. Carson would suggest that a Muslim should not become president …
Discussion: Raw Story
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Ben Carson: U.S. shouldn't elect a Muslim president
Discussion: Pamela Geller and Slantpoint
Martin Pengelly / Guardian:
Ben Carson says no Muslim should ever become US president
Discussion: Refinery29 and Outside the Beltway
Melinda Henneberger / Bloomberg Business:
Pope Francis' Political Critics Are Missing Something Fundamental  —  So much has already been written about what Pope Francis is going to tell Americans when the former archbishop of Buenos Aires visits the United States for the first time in his life this week that this might be a good time to point …
Discussion: Politico
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Confidential / New York Daily News:
Susan Sarandon worries Pope Francis will be assassinated during New York visit  —  Susan Sarandon fears Pope Francis will be murdered because of his progressive views, she tells Confidenti@l.  —  “I think they're going to assassinate him,” she said of the pontiff, who arrives in New York on Thursday.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Jake Brewer, RIP; Update: Memorial educational fund launched  —  It is with great shock and sadness that we offer our condolences and prayers to the family of Jake Brewer, the husband of Mary Katharine Ham, and the father of Georgia and a child on the way, as well as his colleagues and friends at the White House and Change.org.
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Alison Elkin / Bloomberg Business:
Carly Fiorina Responds to Criticism of Hewlett-Packard Sales in Iran  —  Carly Fiorina said Sunday that neither she nor Hewlett-Packard should be faulted for the sales of millions of HP printers in Iran when such business was prohibited by U.S. law.  —  Appearing on Fox's Fox News Sunday …
Discussion: Politico, Liberaland and Slantpoint
Jim Finkle / Reuters:
Apple's iOS App Store suffers first major attack  —  Apple Inc APPL.O said on Sunday it is cleaning up its iOS App Store to remove malicious iPhone and iPad programs identified in the first large-scale attack on the popular mobile software outlet.  —  The company disclosed the effort …
Discussion: Index, Mashable, The Verge and 9to5Mac
Joanna Walters / Guardian:
Teen prosecuted as adult for having naked images - of himself - on phone  —  North Carolina high schooler and his girlfriend face legal proceedings over selfies as both the adult perpetrators and minor victims  —  A teenage boy in North Carolina has been prosecuted for having nude pictures of himself on his own mobile phone.
Discussion: Refinery29, Index and all
Shane Ryan / Salon:
Behind the scenes with Bernie Sanders: Three days in Iowa that explain why Hillary's fading and the Dems have a new front-runner  —  If you want to understand the Sanders shocker, just go to Iowa and listen to his ideas and Hillary's platitudes … Judging by the low murmurs …
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Afghan Allies' Abuse of Boys  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — In his last phone call home, Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. told his father what was troubling him: From his bunk in southern Afghanistan, he could hear Afghan police officers sexually abusing boys they had brought to the base.
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Clayton Cramer
New York Times:
U.S. Will Accept More Refugees as Crisis Grows  —  BERLIN — The Obama administration will increase the number of worldwide refugees the United States accepts to 100,000 by 2017, a significant increase over the current annual cap of 70,000, Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday.
Daily Mail:
Drugs, debauchery and the making of an extraordinary Prime Minister: For years rumours have dogged him.  Now, the truth about the shockingly decadent Oxford days of the gifted Bullingdon boy  —  The door was always shut, but anyone walking past might have caught a whiff of the sweet musky smell …
Discussion: Mashable and Boing Boing
Reuters:
Greece election: Alexis Tsipras hails ‘victory of the people’  —  Alexis Tsipras has hailed a “victory of the people” after his left-wing Syriza party won Greece's fifth election in six years.  —  He said Greeks faced a difficult road and that recovery from financial crisis would only come through hard work.
ABC News:
???This Week???  Transcript: Donald Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ???  THIS WEEK???  ON SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 (BEGIN VIDETOAPE) ANNOUNCER (voice-over): Starting right now on ABC, THIS WEEK, Trump under fire.  The GOP front-runner taking heat for what he didn't say.
Discussion: Bloomberg Business, Politico and NPR
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Alison Elkin / Bloomberg Business:
“It wasn't people from Sweden that blew up the World Trade Center,” he said.
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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Daily Mail:
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Hillary Clinton Calls For The U.S. To Take In 65,000 Syrian Refugees
Ira Stoll / Smartertimes.com:
New York Times Co. Sells Access To Iranian Oil Official
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Christie: I'll Be President If Americans Think I'm ‘Huggable’
Thomas Tracy / New York Daily News:
NYPD officer with blood alcohol level 5 times the legal limit charged with drunken driving: prosecutors
Discussion: Daily Mail and Raw Story
Udi Segal / Jerusalem Post:
Analysis: Israel must prepare for Palestinian Authority's collapse
Discussion: Israel Matzav