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10:30 PM ET, November 16, 2015

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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
No, State Governors Can't Refuse To Accept Syrian Refugees  —  More than half a dozen state governors have come out against President Obama's plans to relocate several thousand Syrian refugees within the United States.  Some have pledged to actively resist settlement of these refugees.
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Governors revolt against Obama's Syrian refugee plan  —  A fast-growing group of Republican governors on Monday revolted against President Barack Obama's existing plan to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees next year, saying the Paris terrorist attacks show that it's too risky to provide a safe haven …
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Cruz: ‘No meaningful risk’ of Christians committing terrorism
Dara Lind / Vox:   Is Mike Huckabee right that refugees from hot countries hate Minnesota? An investigation.
Megan Apper / BuzzFeed:
Huckabee: Put Syrian Refugees in Homes of “Limousine Liberals”
Discussion: Mother Jones and Hullabaloo
Nick Gass / Politico:
Huckabee calls on Ryan to prevent entry of Syrian refugees, or to step down
Discussion: CNN and Niskanen Center
USA Today:
After Paris attacks, governors refuse to accept Syrian refugees
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:   State Department: Only 2% Of Syrian Refugees In U.S. Are Military-Aged Men With No Family
CNN:
Syrian refugees shunned by some in U.S. after attacks in Paris
Jennifer Ardis / Office of the Governor of Alabama:
Governor Bentley Refuses Syrian Refugees Relocating to Alabama
Lanford Beard / People.com:
Source: Charlie Sheen Is HIV-Positive  —  Charlie Sheen is going on the Today show to discuss being HIV-positive, sources tell PEOPLE.  —  According to top Hollywood publicist and crisis manager Howard Bragman, he was approached by people close to Sheen six months ago to deal with the crisis, but never dealt with him directly.
Discussion: TMZ.com, Page Six and USA Today
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TMZ.com:
Charlie Sheen — Threats of Lawsuits Unraveled HIV Secret  —  As we reported, Charlie will discuss his HIV status Tuesday on “Today.” … Charlie Sheen kept his HIV status under wraps, but everything unraveled when some former partners threatened him with lawsuits ... TMZ has learned.
Discussion: CBS Miami
Reuters:
Islamic State threatens attack on Washington, other countries  —  Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington.  —  The video, which appeared on a site used …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama Chides Republicans Who Want to Screen Muslim Refugees  —  ANTALYA, Turkey — President Obama on Monday lashed out at Republican presidential candidates who suggested that religious tests be given to refugees seeking to enter the United States out of a fear of letting terrorists into the country.
Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg Business:
Obama Rejects Calls for U.S. Troops to Fight Islamic State
Discussion: Guardian, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Scott Shane / New York Times:
After Paris Attacks, C.I.A. Director Rekindles Debate Over Surveillance
Discussion: Political Wire
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Clinton ‘often confused’ says staffer in email  —  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was “often confused,” according to a 2013 email from her longtime aide Huma Abedin.  —  The comment, which is likely to attract attention from Clinton's critics on the presidential campaign trail …
Discussion: Townhall.com and Liberal Values
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Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch: Email Reveals Top Aide Huma Abedin Warning State Department Staffer That Hillary Clinton Is “Often Confused”  —  (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch today released more than 35 pages of emails former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin revealing …
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
CNN's Jim Acosta Grills Obama on ISIS: 'Why Can't We Take Out These Bastards?'  —  During a Monday press conference in Turkey, President Barack Obama was grilled by CNN's Jim Acosta about his previous statements downplaying ISIS and why the United States couldn't kill the “bastards.”
Shaquille Brewster / MSNBC:
Carson: al Qaeda was not a threat in 2003
CBS News:
Alleged Paris mastermind named as suspects arrested  —  As France continues to reel from the Paris attacks that left at least 129 people dead, authorities conducted more than 150 police raids across France and also in Belgium overnight and this morning.  —  Belgium's federal prosecutor's office …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
The Myth of the Terrorist Mastermind  —  Why do we need to keep telling ourselves the plotters are special?  —  Now that French authorities have named a suspected chief planner of the Paris attacks—27-year-old Belgian ISIS veteran Abdelhamid Abaaoud—the press is building him up as if he's 100 feet tall.
Washington Post:
9/11 hero's husband returns award given to late wife after Caitlyn Jenner gets same award  —  Yanan Wang  —  After the 9/11 attacks, no one disputed that Moira Smith was a hero.  The 38-year-old police officer led over a hundred bleeding people out of the World Trade Center, one after another …
Discussion: New York Post and Daily Mail
Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
The surprising reason why ISIS may be lashing out: because it's losing  —  On Thursday, one day before terrorists who appear to have been linked to ISIS launched a series of devastating attacks across Paris, President Obama went on ABC and made a comment that now looks pretty bad:
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and NOLA River
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Ari Soffer / Reuters:   Poll: Most Americans support escalating fight against ISIS
J.D. Durkin / Mediaite:
Usually Dispassionate Fox News Anchor Bill Hemmer Goes Off on Obama Terror Speech  —  America's Newsroom co-anchor Bill Hemmer was uncharacteristically opinionated and aggressive after President Barack Obama's remarks Monday morning at the G20 Summit over Friday's French terror attacks.
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Wall Street Journal:
Paris Stadium Attacker Got to Europe Using Fake Syrian Passport  —  Man apparently posed as refugee, entered through Greek island of Leros  —  ATHENS—Mystery deepened over a Paris attacker who traveled to Europe via Greece and the Balkans, after French officials said Monday that the Syrian passport he had used was indeed a fake.
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Ilan Ben-Meir / BuzzFeed:
Rand Paul: “You Don't Have A Right To Pants”  —  The Kentucky senator and 2016 presidential candidate says government doesn't create rights — to health care or pants — and calls Bernie Sanders' politics “the same philosophy of socialism that lead ultimately to the extermination of people.”
Star Tribune:
Top student body officers at University of Kansas face calls to resign over diversity demands  —  LAWRENCE, Kan. — Racial tensions are growing at the University of Kansas with a call for three top Student Senate leaders to resign and a recent graduate initiating a hunger strike.
Discussion: Power Line and National Review
Dayna / Matter:
On Gawker's Problem With Women  —  A former staff writer describes how a media company founded on whistleblowing and radical transparency failed its female employees. … n July 16, Gawker.com published a tabloid story about a male escort's thwarted dalliance with a media executive.
 
 
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The Hill:
Day one promises pile up for GOP hopefuls
Discussion: WND, Daily Kos and The Week
Milo Yiannopoulos / Breitbart:
I'm a Gay Man and Mass Muslim Immigration Terrifies Me
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP campaigns tell RNC not to let Adelson stack the debate crowd
Wall Street Journal:
Google Gets Surprise Ally in Mobile-App Search Push: Facebook
Discussion: Engadget and The Verge
Josh Meyer / NBC News:
ISIS Has Help Desk for Terrorists Staffed Around the Clock
David Edwards / Raw Story:
WATCH: Obama absolutely destroys Jeb Bush for his ‘dark impulse’ to have a ‘religious test’ for refugees
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A boy appears in a Barbie ad for the first time
Lawrence Hurley / Raw Story:
Supreme Court rejects anti-abortion group's Planned Parenthood case
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CBS News:
Sarah Palin's view
Discussion: Slantpoint and The Daily Caller
Paul Glastris / Washington Monthly:
News About Ed Kilgore, Don't Freak Out
Discussion: Horizons
Justin Wm / Washington Post:
Aaron Rodgers praised for criticizing fan's anti-Muslim comments
New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Botches Wall Street Questions
 

 
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