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1:20 PM ET, November 16, 2015

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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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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
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,” …
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
GOP governors reject Syrian refugees  —  At least eight 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 …
Justin Salhani / ThinkProgress:
Why ISIS Wanted Authorities To Find A Syrian Passport  —  As the dust settles on the Paris attacks, intelligence agencies are scrambling to gather information on the reported attackers.  Passports collected on-scene have helped identify the nationalities of a few of the attackers, most of whom are from the European Union.
Katie Zezima / Washington Post:
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.
Nick Gass / Politico:
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.
Yanan Wang / Washington Post:
Governors of Michigan, Alabama reject resettlement of Syrian refugees in their states  —  The terrorist attacks in Paris have prompted two governors to announce that Syrian refugees will not be allowed to resettle in their states.  —  Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan and Gov. Robert Bentley of Alabama …
Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:
Obama Slams Republicans: “Not American” To Only Accept Christian Syrian Refugees  —  Toward the end of his press conference on Monday, President Obama became animated, sharply criticizing the idea that the United States should no longer accept refugees from Syria, or only accept Christians, as some including Ted Cruz have suggested.
Jennifer Ardis / Office of the Governor of Alabama:
Governor Bentley Refuses Syrian Refugees Relocating to Alabama
Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:
Gov. Bobby Jindal Issues Executive Order To Halt Syrian Refugee Resettlement In Louisiana
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Nick Gass / Politico:
Obama scolds those calling for ‘religious test’ of Syrian refugees
Discussion: Vox
Daniel Byman / Slate:
What the Paris attack tells us about ISIS—and will the United States be next?
Nick Gass / Politico:
CIA's Brennan: Paris attacks not likely a ‘one-off event’
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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.
Discussion: Guardian
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
ISIS Is Not Waging a War Against Western Civilization … At least Marco Rubio didn't answer the attacks in Paris by demanding that the United States accept only Christian refugees.  He left that to Ted Cruz.  —  But given the Florida senator's reputation in GOP circles as a foreign-policy wonk …
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: Daily Mail and The Daily Caller
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Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:
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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Alison Elkin / Bloomberg.com news:
Trump Calls for ‘Study’ of Mosques After Paris Terror Attacks
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Millennium / Before It's News:
This Is Exactly Why They Perpetrated the Fake Paris Terror Show
New York Times:
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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Max Abelson / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton's Wall Street Donors Say More Than 9/11 Built Their Bond
Discussion: Politico
Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Clinton's debate performance leaves trail of fodder for political adversaries
Discussion: The Week, New Yorker and Power Line
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Rival campaigns starting to fear Ted Cruz  —  He has more cash than any other Republican candidate.  He is organized in every county in the first four voting states.  And he has served up one strong debate performance after the next.  —  Now, not three months from primary season …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Bloomberg.com news:
Iowa's Steve King Endorses Ted Cruz for President
Discussion: Political Wire
Politico:
The Belgian radicals' den  —  Paris investigation leads to run-down Brussels neighborhood notorious for jihadi recruitment. … “We don't have a grip on the situation in Molenbeek.”  —  A confession — a mea culpa almost — summed up the Belgian government's reaction to the links discovered between …
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Stephen BattaglioContact / Los Angeles Times:
John Dickerson keeps Democratic debate on track despite last-minute shuffle  —  CBS News political director John Dickerson had just finished his first rehearsal Friday for the Democratic primary debate when the words “this just in” came through his earpiece.
Justin Wm / Washington Post:
Aaron Rodgers praised for criticizing fan's anti-Muslim comments  —  It was not a red-letter day for Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.  Though he led a late rally, many of his passes went wide, and the Packers were trounced by the Detroit Lions, giving that team just its second victory of the season.
Ben Domenech / The Daily Beast:
Why Can't the Dems Say ‘Radical Islam’?  —  How Saturday night's debate displayed a party both at odds with reality and the popular will when it comes to terrorism.  —  Saturday night's Democratic presidential debate offered the country a moment of clarity that exposes just how brittle …
 
 
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