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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate Dems push refugee alternative — Senate Democrats are pushing a legislative alternative to a House Republican bill that would halt the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States, giving themselves political cover to oppose it. — Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) …
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Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Cruz to Obama: Insult me to my face — GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) challenged President Obama on Wednesday for attacking Republicans who oppose plans to admit thousands of Syrian refugees into the U.S. — “It is utterly unbefitting of the president to be engaging …
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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: Democrats Take Center Stage on National Security
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NBC News:
Poll: A Majority of Americans Oppose Accepting Syrian Refugees
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Bloomberg Poll: Most Americans Oppose Syrian Refugee Resettlement
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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Carson Wins on Personality, Trump on Terror in Bloomberg Poll — Republicans and Republican-leaning voters are not so enthusiastic about mass deportations, the survey shows. — McCormickJohn — Republicans overwhelmingly pick Ben Carson over Donald Trump for having the better temperament …
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
Trump rises after Paris attacks — Donald Trump has gained political strength since the Paris terrorist attacks last Friday, according to most of the polls released in the aftermath. — Trump's gains show him once again confounding Beltway wisdom, where the widespread view was that such a grave event …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
GOP Has Clear Top 4; Clinton Dominant for Dems; General Election Tight
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Fox News Poll: Trump, Sanders lead respective primaries in New Hampshire
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Florida Atlantic University:
Polls — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have sizable leads …
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump rules GOP race in New Hampshire, Sanders by 1 over Clinton
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New York Times:
Paris Attack's Top Suspect, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Died in Raid, France Says — PARIS — Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian militant suspected of orchestrating the Paris terrorist attacks, died in a police raid in the northern Paris suburb of St.-Denis early Wednesday, the French authorities announced on Thursday.
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: First footage of Paris attacks shows diners diving for cover as jihadist sprays café with bullets... and women he tried to kill at point-blank range but who escaped because his gun jammed — The images show the merciless savagery of an Islamic State assassin and the extraordinary bravery of the victims
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo Politics:
Donald Trump has big plans for ‘radical Islamic’ terrorists, 2016 and ‘that communist’ Bernie Sanders — Trump is currently building a Washington, D.C., hotel about a half mile from the White House. “You know, honestly, I think the party should take guys like Pataki …
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
Donald Trump has big plans for ‘radical Islamic’ terrorists, 2016 and ‘that communist’ Bernie Sanders — Donald Trump is already planning his palace on Pennsylvania Avenue. — Whether or not his campaign is successful, the Republican billionaire will have a presence on the street where America's president lives.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump won't rule out database, special ID for Muslims in US — GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump believes that the war on terror will require unprecedented surveillance of America's Muslims. — “We're going to have to do thing that we never did before,” he said during a Yahoo interview.
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Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
George Takei has the perfect response to a mayor who praised Japanese internment — On Wednesday, the mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, wrote a controversial letter explaining why his administration won't be welcoming Syrian refugees. The letter from Mayor David Bowers invoked America's history …
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George Takei / Facebook:
Earlier today, the mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, Mr. David A. Bowers …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Roanoke Mayor Off Clinton Campaign's Leadership Team After Refugee Remarks
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Judicial Watch:
Clinton Goes after Laugh Factory Comedians for Making Fun of Her — In what appears to be a first for a serious presidential contender, Hillary Clinton's campaign is going after five comedians who made fun of the former Secretary of State in standup skits at a popular Hollywood comedy club.
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People.com:
Carly Simon Says 'You're So Vain' Is About Warren Beatty - Well, Only the Second Verse: ‘He Thinks the Whole Thing Is About Him!’ — For 44 years, the subject of “You're So Vain” has remained one of pop music's most enduring mysteries. — But at long last, Carly Simon has solved the mystery - well, sort of.
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Washington Post:
41 years. $3 billion. Inside the Clinton donor network. — HOW WE DID IT — This project is an effort to identify every known donor who contributed to support Bill and Hillary Clinton over their four decades in public life. — Read about our methodology.
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Noe Leiva / Agence France-Presse:
Honduras arrests five Syrians headed to US with stolen passports — 5 Syrian refugees detained in Honduras en route to U.S. — Tegucigalpa (AFP) - Honduran authorities have arrested five Syrians intending to make it to the United States with stolen Greek passports, triggering alarm Wednesday …
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Ruthie Blum / Algemeiner.com:
Palestinian Stabbing Attack in Tel Aviv: 2 Israelis Dead, 1 Moderately Wounded During Midday Prayers — The scene of Thursday afternoon's stabbing attack in Tel Aviv. Photo: IDF. — Two Israelis were killed and one moderately wounded in a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv on Thursday afternoon, according to Israeli news outlets.
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Tom Friedman / Ace of Spades HQ:
A Conversation With a Cabbie and What It Tells Us About The Next Several Minutes of My Life — Special Guest Columnist for Ace of Spades HQ — I was talking to my cabbie in Cairo, making idle chit-chat as we threaded our way through a colorful and boisterous bazaar, what the locals call a souk …
Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE — REPORT: 8 Syrians Caught at Texas Border in Laredo — Two federal agents operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are claiming that eight Syrian illegal aliens attempted to enter Texas from Mexico in the Laredo Sector.
Barney Frank / Politico:
The Self-fulfilling Prophecy of 'Government Doesn't Work' — It's easy to see American politics as a situation in which voters are all innocent victims of mistreatment at the hands of elected officials — easy, but wrong. Sure, politicians often fall short, and I'm convinced that the negative bias …
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Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton to offer her plan for defeating Islamic State — Hillary Clinton on Thursday morning will offer her most expansive foreign policy vision since last week's terror attacks on Paris that killed more than 130, laying out her strategy for countering ISIL and “radical jihadism” across the globe.
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