memeorandum: Cruz to offer bill banning Syrian refugees (The Hill)

11:10 AM ET, November 17, 2015

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Michael Falcone / ABC News:

The Note: Candidates Confront The Refugee Question — NOTABLES —TRUMP PROMISES TO DEPORT SYRIAN MIGRANTS: Donald Trump said he would deport all Syrian refugees who settle in the U.S. if elected president. “Anybody that's brought into this country from the migration is going to be out …

David Weigel / Washington Post:

Louisiana's race for governor is set to end on November 21, one week after the Paris bombings. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), the struggling Republican nominee, is trying to make the race turn on one issue: Whether to let Syrian refugees settle in the United States.

Discussion: Politico, The Hayride, Political Wire, RedState and The PJ Tatler

The Hill:

Cruz to offer bill banning Syrian refugees — Sen. Ted Cruz has struck back at President Obama's implication that his rejection of Syrian refugees is “shameful,” telling CNN he will be introducing legislation banning Muslim Syrian refugees from entering the United States.

Discussion: Politico, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, Fusion, Bloomberg Business, Shakesville, AMERICAblog News, Hot Air, Independent Journal, BuzzFeed and Hit & Run

Mark Hensch / The Hill:

Trump: I'll ‘go to war’ with Cruz if he rises higher — Donald Trump said Monday he is capable of turning on Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in their competition for the GOP's 2016 presidential nomination. — “If he catches on, I guess we'll have to go to war,” he told host Joe Kernen on CNBC's “Squawk Box.”

Discussion: CNBC and Patterico's Pontifications

Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
16 Of The Worst Ways To Respond To ISIS' Paris Attack

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, The PJ Tatler, CNN, Raw Story, Al Jazeera English, The Daily Caller and Politico

Wall Street Journal:
Paris Stadium Attacker Got to Europe Using Fake Syrian Passport

Discussion: Hit & Run, Foreign Policy, The Daily Beast, MichelleMalkin.com, The Independent, Hot Air, Balloon Juice, Politico, Trust.org and The Week

Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
Cruz to introduce bill to bar Syrian refugees

Discussion: Political Wire, Friendly Atheist, Outside the Beltway, Business Insider, CNN, Algemeiner.com, addictinginfo.org, PoliticusUSA, Commentary Magazine, Refinery29, WHTM-TV, The Daily Signal, Political Insider blog, Raw Story and Daily Kos

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
No, State Governors Can't Refuse To Accept Syrian Refugees

New York Times:
G.O.P. Governors Vow to Close Doors to Syrian Refugees

Discussion: Washington Post, The Progressive Pulse, alicublog, JSOnline, Post and Courier, Des Moines Register, Politico and CBS News

New York Times:
After Paris Attacks, Vilifying Refugees

Discussion: Baltimore Sun, Opinion Shop, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Red Alert Politics, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Al Jazeera English, Portland Mercury, Slantpoint, Fusion, Business Insider, Bloomberg View, ThinkProgress and The Week

The Hill:
Pressure builds to block refugees

Discussion: RedState and Washington Post

BostonGlobe.com:
Baker won't allow Syrian refugees in Mass. for now

Discussion: Washington Post, New Jersey Online, Blue Mass Group, Courier-Journal, CBS Boston, Chicago Tribune, CityLab, WLTX-TV, The Daily Signal and IN.gov

Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama Chides Republicans Who Want to Screen Muslim Refugees

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money, CBS Philly, Bloomberg View, NPR, JustOneMinute, Mashable, The Federalist and ABC News

Matt Clinch / CNBC:
8 state governors oppose Syrian refugee relocation

Discussion: New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Gateway Pundit, Post and Courier, NOLA River, Balloon Juice, Tennessean.com, Townhall.com, The Hayride, Washington Post and The First Street Journal

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
State Department: Only 2% Of Syrian Refugees In U.S. Are Military-Aged Men With No Family

Discussion: Fusion, Plain Dealer, The Hill and The Huffington Post

Associated Press:
SOME GOVERNORS HALT, QUESTION PLAN TO ACCEPT SYRIAN REFUGEES

Discussion: Guardian, Tennessean.com, Associated Press, Raw Story, The Week, WISH-TV, WBAY-TV and Common Dreams

Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:

Charlie Sheen reveals he's HIV positive in TODAY Show exclusive — Charlie Sheen revealed he is HIV positive Tuesday in an exclusive TODAY interview with Matt Lauer. — “It's a hard three letters to absorb. It's a turning point in one's life,” the 50-year-old actor said.

Discussion: Slantpoint, BuzzFeed, Mother Jones, CBS DC, WREG-TV, The Week, Business Insider and KFOR-TV

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: USA TODAY College, TMZ.com, The Daily Caller, National Enquirer, Guardian, Refinery29, Jezebel, Business Insider, Page Six, USA Today, Hollywood Life, Towleroad, WREG-TV, RADAR, Scared Monkeys, New York's PIX11 and TVNewser

TMZ.com:
Charlie Sheen — Threats of Lawsuits Unraveled HIV Secret

Discussion: CBS Miami, Hollywood Life, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Mashable

Andrew Roth / Washington Post:

Russia confirms Sinai plane crash was the work of terrorists — MOSCOW —The mid-air explosion of a Russian jetliner over the Sinai desert last month that killed all 224 people on board was the result of a terrorist attack, Russia's chief intelligence officer said Tuesday.

Discussion: Hot Air

Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Russia Says Bomb Downed Plane in Egypt and Intensifies Attacks on ISIS

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Associated Press, Mediaite, Reuters, The Week and Outside the Beltway

Paul Taylor / Reuters: France, Russia strike Islamic State in Syria, EU aid invoked

New York Times:
Paris Attacks Suspect Was Target of Strikes on ISIS in Syria

Discussion: Vlad Tepes, Telegraph, NBC News, Deadspin and The Tower

New York Times:
Could Paris Happen Here? — Hanover, N.H. — SURVEYING …

Discussion: Truth Revolt and Associated Press

Matthew Dalton / Wall Street Journal:
Paris Attacks Suspect Was Monitored by Western Allies Seeking to Kill Him

Discussion: The Week, The Daily Caller and Bloomberg View

Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:

Why Al Gore won't endorse Hillary Clinton — At least four times in the past year, Al Gore has passed up opportunities to endorse Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, brushing off questions from People magazine and other media outlets with the admonition that it's still too early …

Discussion: Booman Tribune

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: Hot Air, Politico, Algemeiner.com, Townhall.com, Liberal Values and Judicial Watch

Oxford Dictionaries / OxfordWords blog:

Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is... That's right - for the first time ever, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is a pictograph: , officially called the ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji, though you may know it by other names. There were other strong contenders from a range of fields …

Discussion: FOX News Radio, WNCN, Jezebel, The Verge, TechCrunch, The PJ Tatler, The Week, CBS Philly and Mashable

Pamela Engel / Business Insider:

‘Idiots’: ISIS responds to Anonymous threatening its ‘biggest operation ever’ against it — An ISIS-affiliated account on the messaging app Telegram has sent out a message about Anonymous' threat to launch its “biggest operation ever” against the terrorist group.

Discussion: Guardian, Infowars, BGR and KFOR-TV

Jason Schreier / Kotaku:
Reporting Error Leads To Speculation That Terrorists Used PS4s To Plan Paris Attacks

Discussion: ThinkProgress, BGR, The Verge, NPR, Bloomberg View, New York Magazine, Mashable, Forbes and Fusion

Jake Sherman / Politico:

Ryan aims to address refugee situation this week — Speaker Paul Ryan announced to a closed meeting of Republicans Tuesday morning that he hopes the House will take action this week to address refugees from Syria, according to a source in the room. — Ryan (R-Wis.) said he's not sure …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Daily Kos

Jack Shafer / Politico:

The Myth of the Terrorist Mastermind — 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. Abaaoud isn't just another opportunist butcher of innocent flesh …

Discussion: The Independent, TPNN, New York Times, Guardian, FAIR, The Daily Caller, Hullabaloo, NBC News, Algemeiner.com and Towleroad

CBS News:
Alleged Paris mastermind named as suspects arrested

Discussion: Guardian, Associated Press, CBS DC, NPR and New York Times

Annie Karni / Politico:

Sanders hesitates on socialism speech — Bernie Sanders' ballyhooed speech on socialism is now on indefinite hold. — Details about how Sanders would pay for his proposed single-payer national health insurance program to provide Medicare for all Americans have yet to be fleshed out …

Discussion: Bloomberg.com news

KEYE-TV:

Mosque vandalized with feces, torn Quran — The Pflugerville Police Department is searching for the vandal(s) responsible for vandalism at the Islamic Center of Pflugerville on Windermere Drive. Investigators say a member of the center arrived just before 6 a.m. Monday to find a torn apart Quran …

Discussion: Raw Story, KXAN-TV and LiberalAmerica.org

Daily Mail:

Obama is LATE for moment of silence as the rest of the G20 leaders hold somber observance to mourn Paris attacks — President Barack Obama arrived at the G20 summit's first working session after the silent observance was already underway — Later in the day Obama insisted …

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, TPNN and Independent Journal