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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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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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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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Speaker Ryan: Syrian refugee bill does not have a ‘religious test’ — Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday pushed back against arguments that a House bill hitting the floor this week to enhance security screenings for Syrian refugees will filter people based on religion.


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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11th-Hour Detour Puts Family in Connecticut as Indiana Bars Syrian Refugees

De Blasio escalates attack on Christie's refugee stance
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The Syrian passports to terror: EIGHT migrants have got into Europe with same papers as those found …
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Democrats will vote no on Syria refugee bill
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Ted Cruz To Obama: ‘Come Back And Insult Me To My Face’ (VIDEO)
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Syrian family diverted after Indiana changes refugee policy
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Washington State Governor Says He Welcomes Syrian Refugees
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2 terror suspects dead after French police raid north of Paris — PARIS — A woman triggered a suicide blast Wednesday as more than 100 police and soldiers stormed an apartment in northern Paris, acting on tips that the suspected ringleader of last week's bloodshed could be hiding in the tense French capital.
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ISIS suspects posing as refugees arrested at airport clutching hand-drawn MAP to Germany
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3 terrorist suspects killed, others held in raid in Saint-Denis, officials say
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France says it will take 30,000 Syrian refugees, while U.S. Republicans would turn them away
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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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Ben Carson's campaign made a U.S. map and put a bunch of states in the wrong place … Happy Geography Awareness Week! Recognizing that “too many young Americans are unable to make effective decisions, understand geo-spatial issues, or even recognize their impacts as global citizens,” …
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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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An angry Obama upbraids critics who want to block refugees from Syria
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Jeb Bush Joins Republican Calls for Ground Troops in Syria
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Bobby Jindal's presidential campaign was unrecognizable from the Bobby Jindal I knew — I met Bobby Jindal 12 years ago. He was running for Louisiana governor against Kathleen Blanco. At 32, he was one of the most impressive candidates for any office that I had ever met.
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Jewish Teacher Stabbed By ‘IS Supporters’ — Police on the streets of Marseille this week — A Jewish teacher has been stabbed in Marseille by three people claiming to be Islamic State supporters, say prosecutors. — Three people on two scooters approached the teacher in the street …
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Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and 6 More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: “There Is Always a Backlash” — Kate Winslet, Jane Fonda, Carey Mulligan, Brie Larson, Helen Mirren and Charlotte Rampling join for THR's annual fun, frank and uncensored Actress Roundtable.
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Why Every Actress on The Hollywood Reporter Roundtable Cover Is White
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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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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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Don't Pray For France, France Is A Godless Nation That Deserved To Be Attacked. France Supports Terrorists And Kills Christians, And Needs To Be Punished — By Theodore Shoebat — Everyone is putting up the flag of France on their profiles on Facebook, and this is just but another trend that people are picking up.
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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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Russia Pounds ISIS With Biggest Bomber Raid in Decades — Putin's air force just used its nuclear bombers to lay waste to the capital of the ‘Islamic State.’ — The Russian air force just pulled off one of the biggest and most complex heavy bomber missions in modern history …
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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.


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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