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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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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,” …
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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 …
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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.
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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.
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Yanan Wang / Washington Post:
Governors of Michigan, Alabama reject resettlement of Syrian refugees in their states
Governors of Michigan, Alabama reject resettlement of Syrian refugees in their states
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Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:
Obama Slams Republicans: “Not American” To Only Accept Christian Syrian Refugees
Obama Slams Republicans: “Not American” To Only Accept Christian Syrian Refugees
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Jennifer Ardis / Office of the Governor of Alabama:
Governor Bentley Refuses Syrian Refugees Relocating to Alabama
Governor Bentley Refuses Syrian Refugees Relocating to Alabama
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Refugee backlash brewing across the United States
The Daily 202: Refugee backlash brewing across the United States
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Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:
Growing Number Of States Say They Will Not Accept Syrian Refugees
Growing Number Of States Say They Will Not Accept Syrian Refugees
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Kyle Blaine / BuzzFeed:
Governor Of Alabama Says His State Will Refuse Syrian Refugees
Governor Of Alabama Says His State Will Refuse Syrian Refugees
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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.
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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 …
New York Times:
Belgian Who Fought for ISIS Masterminded Paris Attack, Official Says
Belgian Who Fought for ISIS Masterminded Paris Attack, Official Says
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Guardian:
France launches ‘massive’ airstrike on Isis stronghold of Raqqa after Paris attack
France launches ‘massive’ airstrike on Isis stronghold of Raqqa after Paris attack
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
U.S. Warplanes Strike ISIS Oil Trucks in Syria
U.S. Warplanes Strike ISIS Oil Trucks in Syria
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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 …
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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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Millennium / Before It's News:
This Is Exactly Why They Perpetrated the Fake Paris Terror Show — Friday the 13th Massacre: False Flag Operation Designed to Sequester and ‘Quarantine’ the NWO Climate Conference — in Paris — TMR Editor's Note: — There are currently numerous explanations being offered …
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Alison Elkin / Bloomberg.com news:
Trump Calls for ‘Study’ of Mosques After Paris Terror Attacks
Trump Calls for ‘Study’ of Mosques After Paris Terror Attacks
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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 …
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Iowa hardliner Steve King endorses Ted Cruz — Iowa Rep. Steve King on Monday endorsed Ted Cruz, a coup for the Texas senator who is seeking to gain ground with the first-in-the-nation caucus state's conservative activists, with whom King is deeply influential.
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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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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Huma: Hillary ‘Often Confused’
Huma: Hillary ‘Often Confused’
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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
Clinton's Wall Street Donors Say More Than 9/11 Built Their Bond
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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.
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