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

George Takei has the perfect response to a mayor who praised Japanese internment  —  On Wednesday, the mayor of Roanoke, VA, wrote a controversial letter explaining why his administration won't be welcoming Syrian refugees.  The letter from Mayor David Bowers invoked America's history …

ISIS New York video: Terror group releases warning of Times Square attack  —  NEW YORK - Terror group ISIS released a propaganda video Wednesday that makes threats against New York.  —  The video shows several scenes in Manhattan including Times Square, a Gap in Herald Square, T.G.I. Friday's and yellow taxi cabs on city streets.

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.

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,” …

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.

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 …

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 …

My plan to defeat the Islamic State  —  Make no mistake about it: We are at war, and we can't win it with a strategy of containment.  — By Ben Carson-  —  Columns  —  Columns … The Post's View  —  The Post's View … PostEverything  —  PostEverything  —  Paris is a city.

Turkish soccer fans disrupt moment of silence for Paris attack victims  —  Turkish soccer fans disrupted a moment of silence honoring the victims of the Paris attacks before their team drew, 0-0, against Greece in a friendly on Wednesday. … This is at least the second time this year …

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 …

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.