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8:40 AM ET, November 18, 2015

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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama: GOP refugee opponents ‘scared of widows and orphans’  —  President Obama is lashing out at Republican politicians who oppose allowing Syrian refugees into the U.S., accusing them of being “scared of widows and orphans.”  —  Speaking to reporters Wednesday morning in the Philippines …
Discussion: ABC News, EveryJoe, Raw Story and RedState
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Claire Phipps / Guardian:
Paris attacks: police hunt ‘ninth suspect’ as Germany on alert after Hanover bomb threat - live  —  And a bit more from Obama: … People did not “resort to fear and panic” after the Boston marathon bombing, he said: … Share  —  November 17, 2015  —  21:29
Josh Rogin / Bloomberg View:
Governors Press White House for Refugee Information  —  In a call with senior Obama administration officials Tuesday evening, several governors demanded they be given access to information about Syrian refugees about to be resettled by the federal government in their states.  Top White House officials refused.
Sarah Frostenson / Vox:
Here's a map of every state refusing to accept Syrian refugees  —  In the wake of Friday's deadly terrorist attacks in Paris, more than half of all US governors have said they won't allow Syrian refugees to resettle in their state.  —  As of Tuesday afternoon, 26 governors had issued statements saying …
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Trump: Obama sending refugees to Republican states
Gregory Krieg / CNN:
Christie on refugees: Not even 5-year-old orphans
CNN:
White House, governors discuss Syrian refugees
Discussion: WREG-TV and Moe Lane
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Ben Carson Is Struggling to Grasp Foreign Policy, Advisers Say  —  Ben Carson's remarks on foreign policy have repeatedly raised questions about his grasp of the subject, but never more seriously than in the past week, when he wrongly asserted that China had intervened militarily in Syria and then failed …
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Jessica Stern / Politico:
The Islamic State Paradox  —  The more we fight it, the more its appeal grows.  —  The French strikes on Islamic State positions following the Paris attacks point up the peculiar dual nature of this protean Salafi jihadist organization, whose ruthlessness, ability to capture and hold territory …
Discussion: The Great Debate
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Carson camp: New York Times took advantage of ‘elderly gentleman’
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump takes 9-point lead over Carson  —  Donald Trump has nearly a double-digit lead over Ben Carson in the race for the GOP's presidential nomination, a new poll says.  —  Trump is ahead of Carson by 9 points as the top pick among likely Republican primary voters next year, according to the University of Massachusetts survey.
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Fred Bever / WBUR:
WBUR Poll: Trump More Firmly On Top In N.H.; Voters Split On Middle East Military Policy
Discussion: Political Wire
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Daily Mail:
Sick taunts of the Paris mastermind: Abdelhamid Abaaoud boasted of freely crossing Europe's borders …
Discussion: Slantpoint and Vox Popoli
CNN:
2 Air France flights diverted due to bomb threats  —  (CNN)Two Air France flights headed from the United States to Paris were diverted Tuesday night due to bomb threats, officials said.  —  Both flights landed safely.  —  Flight 65, headed from Los Angeles to Paris, was diverted …
Discussion: The Week, Infowars, NBC News and EveryJoe
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Associated Press:
Two U.S. flights to Paris diverted by bomb threats; innocent Muslims ejected from Baltimore plane for ‘watching the news’; bomb squad in Chicago and ‘firebomber racist’ targets mosque  — Two Air France flights headed to Paris were diverted after bomb threats - both flights landed safely
Discussion: CNN and The Week
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Bobby Jindal drops out of White House race  —  Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal announced Tuesday he is ending his presidential bid, saying “this is not my time.”  —  Jindal had struggled to gain traction as he centered his campaign on Iowa, a state with a large pool of evangelical voters …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Inevitable: Bobby Jindal drops out of presidential race
Discussion: twitchy.com
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Bobby Jindal Quits Republican Presidential Race
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
John Kerry's Freudian slip  —  John Kerry said this today: … (Emphasis added)  —  You don't have to be a psychiatrist to detect a Freudian slip in Kerry's statement that there was “perhaps even a legitimacy” to the Charlie Hebdo attack.  Charles Krauthammer was a psychiatrist and he detects it.
Discussion: BuzzFeed
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Kerry sees ‘rationale’ in Charlie Hebdo murders, unlike Friday's attacks in Paris
Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
Kasich Proposes New Government Agency To Promote Judeo-Christian Values  —  As part of a broad national security plan to defeat ISIS, Republican Presidential candidate John Kasich proposed creating a new government agency to push Judeo-Christian values around the world.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump names Cruz when asked about VP spot  —  Donald Trump on Tuesday named Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) when asked about his possible running mate in 2016.  —  “Ted Cruz is now agreeing with me 100 percent,” he said when asked about his vice presidential pick, according to Lifezette.
Ben Glaze / Mirror.co.uk:
Ken Livingstone blasts Labour rival with depression claiming he is ‘disturbed’ and should ‘see his GP’  —  Jeremy Corbyn faces a call to sack Mr Livingstone for his ‘insensitive’ outburst at Kevan Jones - who bravely spoke up about his illness in 2012  —  Explosive row: Kevan Jones and Ken Livingstone have fallen out over Trident
Discussion: Telegraph, Guardian and Spectator
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II … The results of the poll, illustrated above by the useful Twitter account @HistOpinion, were published in the pages of Fortune magazine in July 1938.  Fewer than 5 percent of Americans surveyed at the time believed …
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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Monica Showalter / Investor's Business Daily:
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Clare O'Connor / Forbes:
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
SEIU endorses Clinton
Discussion: BuzzFeed and The Workplace Report
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EXCLUSIVE The pot-smoking Paris suicide bomber: Ex-wife reveals ‘blood brother’ …
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