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

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 …

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

I cannot tell you what an honor it has been to run for President of the United States of America.  My parents came to this country 45 years ago searching for freedom and a chance.  —  When I was born, we lived in student housing at LSU, and never in their wildest dreams did they think their son …

Republican Leaders: Planned Parenthood Could Get Dropped From Reconciliation  —  Two of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) top lieutenants opened the door Monday to dumping language attached to an Obamacare repeal attempt that would defund Planned Parenthood.