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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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Obama adviser: Refugee plan proceeding despite Paris attacks — President Obama still plans to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country over the next year, despite terrorist attacks in Paris, at top aide said Sunday. — “We're still planning on taking in Syrian refugees,” …

Cruz: ‘No meaningful risk’ of Christians committing terrorism — MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Sen. Ted Cruz Sunday continued to call for Muslim refugees from Syria to be barred from entering the United States but opening the borders to displaced Christians, arguing there is not a “meaningful risk” that Christians will commit terrorist acts.

Obama rejects calls for change in anti-ISIL strategy — President Barack Obama on Monday pushed back against calls for a dramatic rethink in the operation against the Islamic State, ruling out U.S. ground troops despite the “terrible and sickening setback” of last week's terrorist attacks in Paris.
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GOP governors reject Syrian refugees — At least ten Republican governors are moving to block Syrian refugees from entering their states after Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris that killed at least 130 people and wounded hundreds more. — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker …


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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Belgian Who Fought for ISIS Masterminded Paris Attack, Official Says — BRUSSELS — The French authorities have concluded that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a 27-year-old Belgian man who has fought in Syria for the Islamic State, was the mastermind of the Paris terrorist attacks.
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Why ISIS Wanted Authorities To Find A Syrian Passport
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The Syrian passport found near the remains of a suicide bomber at the Stade de France intrigues …
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GOP steps up threats to halt Syrian refugees
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The Daily 202: Refugee backlash brewing across the United States
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Governor Bentley Refuses Syrian Refugees Relocating to Alabama

Obama On His ISIS Strategy: I'm Not Interested In ‘American Leadership, Or America Winning’
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Citing Paris Attack, CIA Director Criticizes Surveillance Reform Efforts
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Obama Slams Republicans: “Not American” To Only Accept Christian Syrian Refugees
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U.S. Warplanes Strike ISIS Oil Trucks in Syria
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President Obama Calls Rejection of Syrian Refugees a “Betrayal of Our Values”
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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 …
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Fearing Fear Itself — Like millions of people, I've been obsessively following the news from Paris, putting aside other things to focus on the horror. It's the natural human reaction. But let's be clear: it's also the reaction the terrorists want. And that's something not everyone seems to understand.
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ISIS Is Not Waging a War Against Western Civilization
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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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Huma: Hillary ‘Often Confused’ — In new State Department emails obtained by Judicial Watch, Hillary Clinton's close personal aide, Huma Abedin, is seen warning another aide that Clinton is “often confused.” — The watchdog organization Judicial Watch explains in a press release:
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Why Can't the Dems Say ‘Radical Islam’?
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Hillary Clinton Botches Wall Street Questions — Hillary Clinton should have seen that Wall Street shot coming. Instead, she compounded the damage. — The former secretary of state was off to a sound outing in Saturday night's debate against Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland.
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Clinton's Wall Street Donors Say More Than 9/11 Built Their Bond
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Siege unfolds in Belgian extremist hub as suspected ‘mastermind’ of Paris attacks identified — DEVELOPING — Explosions rang out during a massive police operation in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek as investigators searched for a suspect in the Paris massacre, but the final results of Monday's siege were unclear.
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The Belgian radicals' den
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Calling in to MSNBC's Morning Joe on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would “strongly consider” shutting down mosques with suspected terrorist ties and slammed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for discontinuing surveillance of them.
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Trump: We must watch and study mosques
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News About Ed Kilgore, Don't Freak Out — I have some news to share: chief Political Animal blogger Ed Kilgore has accepted a new job, at New York magazine. Friday is his last working day here at the Washington Monthly. — This is obviously a blow to our readers, including me …
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Rand Paul: “You Don't Have A Right To Pants” — The Kentucky senator and 2016 presidential candidate says government doesn't create rights — to healthcare or pants — and calls Bernie Sanders' politics “the same philosophy of socialism that lead ultimately to the extermination of people.”
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