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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Bloomberg Poll: Most Americans Oppose Syrian Refugee Resettlement — Americans agree with Republican presidential candidates on refugees, but are divided on whether to send U.S. troops to Iraq and Syria to fight the Islamic State, according to the poll. — margarettalev
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Gustavo Palencia / Reuters:
Honduras detains five Syrians said headed to U.S. with stolen Greek passports — Honduran authorities have detained five Syrian nationals who were trying to reach the United States using stolen Greek passports, but there are no signs of any links to last week's attacks in Paris, police said.
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Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Ted Cruz Challenges President Obama to ‘Come Back and Insult Me to My Face’ — A fired-up Sen. Ted Cruz this morning challenged President Obama to a debate over Syrian refugees, lashing out at Obama over his Tuesday comments in the Philippines. — “I want to encourage you, Mr. President …
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Andy Cush / Gawker:
Ted Cruz Would Like to Know Why Obama Won't Insult Him to His Face — Standing outside of a private club for fancy men this morning, senator and presidential hopeful Ted Cruz made it clear that he is ready to buck with Barack Obama. “If you want to insult me, you can do it overseas …
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Daily Mail:
The Syrian passports to terror: EIGHT migrants have got into Europe with same papers as those found …
The Syrian passports to terror: EIGHT migrants have got into Europe with same papers as those found …
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David Giambusso / Politico:
De Blasio escalates attack on Christie's refugee stance
De Blasio escalates attack on Christie's refugee stance
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Liz Robbins / New York Times:
11th-Hour Detour Puts Family in Connecticut as Indiana Bars Syrian Refugees
11th-Hour Detour Puts Family in Connecticut as Indiana Bars Syrian Refugees
The Hill:
Speaker Ryan: Syrian refugee bill does not have a ‘religious test’
Speaker Ryan: Syrian refugee bill does not have a ‘religious test’
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Honduras arrests five Syrians heading to US with fake passports: report
Honduras arrests five Syrians heading to US with fake passports: report
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John Bresnahan / Politico:
Democrats will vote no on Syria refugee bill
Democrats will vote no on Syria refugee bill
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Gustavo Palencia / Trust.org:
Honduras detains 5 Syrians heading for U.S. with stolen Greek passports-police
Honduras detains 5 Syrians heading for U.S. with stolen Greek passports-police
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CNN:
3 terrorist suspects killed, others held in raid in Saint-Denis, officials say — Saint-Denis, France (CNN)Three terrorist suspects have been killed in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis during an ongoing security operation linked to the deadly attacks that rocked the French capital five days ago, a police source said.
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Fred Bever / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Trump More Firmly On Top In N.H.; Voters Split On Middle East Military Policy — Donald Trump is holding on to his lead in the latest WBUR poll of likely voters in New Hampshire's Republican presidential primary, while his closest rival, Dr. Ben Carson, appears to be fading.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Bobby Jindal's presidential campaign was unrecognizable from the Bobby Jindal I knew
Bobby Jindal's presidential campaign was unrecognizable from the Bobby Jindal I knew
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Marco Rubio scores megadonor Frank VanderSloot
Marco Rubio scores megadonor Frank VanderSloot
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Caitlin Cruz / Talking Points Memo:
Ben Carson Can't Place New England On A Map (PHOTO) — Retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson on Tuesday expressed his support for a growing contingent of governors who are against allowing Syrian refugees into the United States — but he shared an incorrect graphic of the lower 48 states in the process.
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Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Ben Carson's campaign made a U.S. map and put a bunch of states in the wrong place
Ben Carson's campaign made a U.S. map and put a bunch of states in the wrong place
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Jerusalem Post:
Jewish teacher stabbed in Marseilles by purported ISIS supporters — France retaliates to Paris terror attacks, hits ISIS command center, training camp in Syria - Two dead, including suicide bomber, in police raid for mastermind behind Paris attacks — Educator's condition not life-threatening …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
The Koch intelligence agency — The political network helmed by Charles and David Koch has quietly built a secretive operation that conducts surveillance and intelligence gathering on its liberal opponents, viewing it as a key strategic tool in its efforts to reshape American public life.
Andrew McCarthy / National Review:
Refugee ‘Religious Test’ Is ‘Shameful’ and ‘Not American’ ... Except that Federal Law Requires It — As I argued in Faithless Execution, the principal constitutional duty of the chief executive is to execute the laws faithfully. President Obama, by contrast, sees his principal task as imposing …
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New York Daily News:
NRA, Republicans block proposed law to stop suspected terrorists from buying guns in U.S. — The NRA — and their gun-loving Republican cohorts — are refusing once more to stop terrorists intent on getting armed in the U.S.A. — A legal loophole allows suspected terrorists on the government's …
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Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Trump: Paris Attacks Could've Been Stopped By “A Guy Like You Or Me” With A Gun — Stringer . / Reuters — w.soundcloud.com — Donald Trump said on Wednesday that, if he or somebody else with a gun had been present during last Friday's attacks in Paris, things would have gone differently.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Congresswoman: Paris Attack A “Chilling Reminder” That We Need Tighter Gun Laws
Congresswoman: Paris Attack A “Chilling Reminder” That We Need Tighter Gun Laws
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Peter Wehner / Commentary Magazine:
Our Bitter and Graceless President — We all know people of towering arrogance and we all know people of staggering incompetence, but Barack Obama is quite possibly the perfect package. No one on the scene today combines these two qualities in quite the same way as Mr. Obama.
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Our two Americas, in 1 map — Want to understand the bifurcated nature of our politics? Try this map, released Tuesday by the Federal Election Commission, that documents which party controls a majority of seats in each state's congressional delegation. — Pretty remarkable no?
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Leda Reynolds / Daily Express:
ISIS suspects posing as refugees arrested at airport clutching hand-drawn MAP to Germany — EIGHT people have been arrested at Istanbul's main airport amid fears they are Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists posing as refugees after they were found clutching a hand-drawn map plotting the route to Germany.
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Dave Boucher / Tennessean.com:
Tennessee GOP leader: Round up Syrian refugees, remove from state — Glen Casada: “We need to ... take them back to the ICE center and say, 'They're not coming to Tennessee, they're yours.' ” — A top Tennessee Republican lawmaker believes the time has come for the National Guard to round …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: ‘Absolutely no choice’ but to close mosques — The United States will have “absolutely no choice” but to close down some mosques where “some bad things are happening,” Donald Trump said in a recent interview, explaining his rationale for doing so. — “Nobody wants to say this and nobody wants …
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Ben Ashford For / Daily Mail:
America's ‘enemies within’: How nearly SEVENTY have been arrested in America over ISIS plots in last 18 months - including refugees who had been given safe haven but ‘turned to terror’ — Increasing pressure from Republicans not to accept refugees from Syria on scale demanded by White House
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Ilan Ben-Meir / BuzzFeed:
Santorum: “It Sounds Like President Obama Is In Cahoots With The Strategy Of ISIS” — “The president is helping ISIS every single day by the policies we have, and he doesn't even know it because he refuses to accept the reality that ISIS is a caliphate.” — Steve Pope / Getty Images
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Elizabeth Leonard / People.com:
David Beckham Is PEOPLE's Sexiest Man Alive! — David Beckham is a global superstar, devoted husband and down-to-earth dad of four. And now, the humble British heartthrob is this year's Sexiest Man Alive. — “It's a huge honor,” Beckham, 40, tells PEOPLE of scoring our 30th anniversary Sexiest Man crown.
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