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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
How the Media Smeared Donald Trump as a Nazi — A story is making the rounds on Facebook that claims Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is calling for “ID badges” for American Muslims. The image on the story is of Jewish children wearing yellow starts during the Holocaust. Very frightening-and a lie.
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Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:
Rubio Trumps Trump: Shut Down Any Place Muslims Gather To Be ‘Inspired’ — Not Just Mosques — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) seems to be going further than even Republican frontrunner Donald Trump in advocating the crackdown of U.S. Muslims. He doesn't just want to consider shutting down mosques …
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Washington Post, Hullabaloo and Talking Points Memo
Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Donald Trump's Plan for a Muslim Database Draws Comparison to Nazi Germany
Donald Trump's Plan for a Muslim Database Draws Comparison to Nazi Germany
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ABC News:
Terrorism Fears Rise Post-Paris; Most Back Force, Oppose Refugees (POLL)
Terrorism Fears Rise Post-Paris; Most Back Force, Oppose Refugees (POLL)
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Hot Air, Politico and YouGov US Opinion Center News
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cruz rejects Trump's support for Muslim registries
Cruz rejects Trump's support for Muslim registries
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ABC News, Washington Post, TIME, American Spectator, Associated Press, Hot Air and OnPolitics
Nick Gass / Politico:
Carson: U.S. should have a database on all immigrants
Carson: U.S. should have a database on all immigrants
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ABC News, Bloomberg.com news, Des Moines Register and Political Wire
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump, Cruz inject tough rhetoric on Islam into GOP race
Trump, Cruz inject tough rhetoric on Islam into GOP race
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
DNC Ad Attacking Republicans for Saying ‘Radical Islam’ Is Laughably Stupid
DNC Ad Attacking Republicans for Saying ‘Radical Islam’ Is Laughably Stupid
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Erick on the Radio, Truth Revolt and RedState
BBC:
Mali attack: Special forces storm hotel to free hostages — Malian special forces have entered the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, to end a siege by gunmen. The hotel says 137 people remain inside. — The gunmen stormed the US-owned hotel, which is popular with foreign businesses …
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Emily Shapiro / ABC News:
Mali Hotel Attack: At Least 27 Dead as Hostage Situation Ends
Mali Hotel Attack: At Least 27 Dead as Hostage Situation Ends
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New York Times:
Mali Hotel Attack Leaves Dozens Dead, Including an American
Mali Hotel Attack Leaves Dozens Dead, Including an American
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Eric Bradner / CNN:
CNN Republican presidential debate criteria announced — (CNN)Republicans have three ways to make the cut for the main stage of their fifth presidential primary debate, sponsor CNN announced Thursday. — Candidates must meet one of three criteria in polls conducted between October 29 …
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NBC News:
Donald Trump Retakes Lead in GOP Race; Ted Cruz Makes Gains: Poll — In the Republican primary race, the newest NBC News/SurveyMonkey online poll shows Donald Trump has the frontrunner spot to himself, with 28% support among Republican and independent voters who lean Republican.
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Dora Scheidell / fox13now.com:
Utah school apologizes for homework assignment to make propaganda poster for terrorist group — SALEM, Utah — Students in ninth grade at Salem Junior High School were given a homework assignment where they were told to draw a propaganda poster for a terrorist organization.
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Chris Miller / KUTV-TV:
Utah junior high school asks students to draw ‘terrorism propaganda poster’ — (KUTV) A group of parents in Salem, Utah are angry when they learned their children were handed an assignment this week that required them to draw a “terrorism propaganda poster.”
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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Woodrow Wilson was extremely racist — even by the standards of his time — This Wednesday, a group of Princeton students stormed the offices of president Christopher Eisgruber to demand that Woodrow Wilson's name be removed from all programs and buildings at the university. That's a big ask.
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Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Princeton president and protesters reach agreement; bomb threat deemed not credible
Princeton president and protesters reach agreement; bomb threat deemed not credible
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Talking Points Memo, American Spectator and The Week
Josh Haskell / ABC News:
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama administration takes immigration battle to Supreme Court — The Obama administration took the battle over immigration to the Supreme Court on Friday, formally asking the justices to review a federal court decision that left in place a nationwide injunction against President Barack …
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NumbersUSA Education …, Bloomberg Business and Daily Kos
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to Save Immigration Plan
Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to Save Immigration Plan
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Above the Law
Blake Neff / The Daily Caller:
Columbia Student Claims To Be Traumatized By Reading About White People — A student at Columbia University is urging the school to inject more diversity into its required courses, claiming she suffered severe emotional trauma from reading too many books by and about white people.
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Columbia Daily Spectator, The American Conservative and The Gateway Pundit
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Farce Awakens — Erick Erickson, the editor in chief of the website RedState.com, is a serious power in right-wing circles. Speechifying at RedState's annual gathering is a rite of passage for aspiring Republican politicians, and Mr. Erickson made headlines this year when he disinvited Donald Trump from the festivities.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos, Washington Monthly and Algemeiner.com
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
U.S. Pilots Confirm: Obama Admin Blocks 75 Percent of Islamic State Strikes — U.S. military pilots who have returned from the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq are confirming that they were blocked from dropping 75 percent of their ordnance on terror targets because they could not get clearance …
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Hot Air, Infowars, Truth Revolt, The Right Scoop, Israpundit and Pamela Geller
Kamel Daoud / New York Times:
Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It — Black Daesh, white Daesh. The former slits throats, kills, stones, cuts off hands, destroys humanity's common heritage and despises archaeology, women and non-Muslims. The latter is better dressed and neater but does the same things. The Islamic State; Saudi Arabia.
Reid Wilson / Morning Consult:
How Do Voters Feel About Your Governor? — Voters take a dim view of just about everything that happens in Washington, D.C., and few believe the country is headed in the right direction. But those same voters have a much better opinion of officials who govern their own states.
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Louisiana Politics, Off-Road Politics, Daily Kos, WPRI-TV, Political Wire and Political Insider blog
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Steve King, Citing Obama's Time In Indonesia, Says Obama Is Filling U.S. With Terrorists — “But you know, while I was going on, he was going to a school in Indonesia, so his idea of America is entirely different than the idea that most Americans have of what we ought to be like …
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Political Wire and Daily Kos
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Uncertain Leadership in Perilous Times — Paris is different, but the president can't seem to change. — After great pain, a formal feeling comes— The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs— In the days after Paris Emily Dickinson's poem kept ringing through my mind as I tried …
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Washington Monthly
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Trump says he's the Hemingway of Twitter — Donald Trump says the world has yet to see a social media genius of his caliber, comparing his 140-character missives on Twitter to the prose of Earnest Hemingway. — “Somebody said I'm the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters,” the businessman said at a rally in South Carolina on Friday.
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Washington Post
Ashe Schow / Washington Examiner:
‘The Hunting Ground’ crew caught editing Wikipedia to make facts conform to film — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — A crew member from “The Hunting Ground,” a one-sided film about campus sexual assault, has been editing Wikipedia articles to make facts conform with the inaccurate representations in the film.
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Independent Journal and Vox Popoli
Joseph Gerth / Courier-Journal:
Bevin claims Herald-Leader cartoon is racist — The Lexington Herald-Leader was buried under an onslaught of phone calls, emails and social media posts after it published an editorial cartoon on Thursday that Gov.-elect Matt Bevin said attacked his children and displayed the …
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