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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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Ed Payne / CNN:
Mali hotel attack: 3 dead after gunmen take captives at Radisson Blu in Bamako — (CNN)LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: — • [7:20 a.m. ET] Security forces have begun a counter-assault on the hotel in Mali's capital, said French President Francois Hollande, who said he'd been in touch …
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Daily Mail:
Jihadists kill three as they go ‘floor to floor’ screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ during AK-47 rampage at Mali hotel and take 170 hostages before freeing those who could recite the Koran — Radison Blu hotel under attack by jihadists armed with AK-47s and hand grenades in Malian capital of Bamako
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Tiemoko Diallo / Reuters:
Gunmen attack luxury hotel in Mali capital, 170 taken hostage
Gunmen attack luxury hotel in Mali capital, 170 taken hostage
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Associated Press:
At least 3 dead, more than 100 hostages held as gunmen storm Mali hotel
At least 3 dead, more than 100 hostages held as gunmen storm Mali hotel
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New York Times:
Mali Hotel Attack Leaves Dozens Dead; Hostages Are Taken
Mali Hotel Attack Leaves Dozens Dead; Hostages Are Taken
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Isabelle Fraser / Telegraph:
Mali hotel attack: gunmen hold 170 hostage at Radisson Blu as third body found at Paris terrorist lair - live
Mali hotel attack: gunmen hold 170 hostage at Radisson Blu as third body found at Paris terrorist lair - live
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Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Donald Trump's Plan for a Muslim Database Draws Comparison to Nazi Germany — NEWTON, Iowa — Donald Trump “would certainly implement” a database system tracking Muslims in the United States, the Republican front-runner told NBC News on Thursday night. — “I would certainly implement that.
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Donald Trump Says He'd ‘Absolutely’ Require Muslims to Register
Donald Trump Says He'd ‘Absolutely’ Require Muslims to Register
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Now Says He Would ‘Absolutely’ Implement Muslim Database (VIDEO)
Trump Now Says He Would ‘Absolutely’ Implement Muslim Database (VIDEO)
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Vaughn Hillyard / MSNBC:
Trump: ‘Would certainly implement’ Muslim database
Trump: ‘Would certainly implement’ Muslim database
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Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Ted Cruz Creates a ‘National Prayer Team’ — Pray for Ted Cruz. — That appears to be among the chief tasks to be undertaken by the Cruz campaign's “national prayer team,” a group announced on Thursday and scheduled to begin its work next month. — Mr. Cruz, who has aggressively courted …
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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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Katie Glueck / Politico:
How Ted Cruz is locking up the evangelical vote — DES MOINES — The hearts of many evangelical voters, polls suggest, are with Ben Carson. But increasingly, their leaders' heads are with Ted Cruz. — While the Texas senator trails the retired pediatric neurosurgeon by double digits in national surveys …
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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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Hadas Gold / Politico:
CNN reporter suspended after tweet on refugees — CNN global affairs correspondent Elise Labott has been suspended for two weeks, a source at CNN confirmed to POLITICO. — Earlier on Thursday Labott had tweeted about the House voting on a bill that would make it harder for Syrian refugees to enter the United States.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Dear CNN: Are you biased?
Dear CNN: Are you biased?
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Clinton Opens 25-Point Lead on Sanders in Bloomberg Politics National Poll — She also earns higher scores on commander-in-chief traits, including the ability to combat terrorism. — margarettalev — Hillary Clinton has solidified her lead nationally in the Democratic presidential nominating contest …
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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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Do-Hyeong Myeong / The Daily Princetonian:
Eisgruber, BJL come to compromise after two days of protests
Eisgruber, BJL come to compromise after two days of protests
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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 9th 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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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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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
The Illiberal Demands of the Amherst Uprising — At Amherst, a private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, student activists began a sit-in last Thursday at the campus library, intending “to stand in solidarity with the students in Mizzou, Yale, South Africa and every other institution across …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Welcome to the Freak Show, Gawker. You'll Fit Right In. — The media news of the week was the sudden reorientation of the news and gossip site Gawker.com to a site about politics. Part of a larger story about layoffs and contraction of other outposts in the Gawker Media empire (io9 …
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Ex-CIA director: Snowden should be ‘hanged’ for Paris — A former CIA director says leaker Edward Snowden should be convicted of treason and given the death penalty in the wake of the terrorist attack on Paris. — “It's still a capital crime, and I would give him the death sentence …
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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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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Extraordinary selfie of Europe's first female suicide bomber shows the jihadi who never read the Koran, liked to drink and smoke and had a reputation for having lots of boyfriends — She detonated her suicide vest packed with explosives after witness claims he saw her going to KFC
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Kelly Winters / Facebook:
Improving the Experience When Relationships End — Community Support FYI is a new series of blog posts about how we work to keep the Facebook community safe, supported and connected. — Facebook is a place for sharing life's important moments, which for many people include their romantic relationships.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP group plans most aggressive anti-Trump campaign yet — John Kasich has attacked Donald Trump relentlessly in debates and now his super PAC is planning to invest $2.5 million in the most aggressive takedown of the poll leader yet — on behalf of an increasingly anxious GOP establishment.
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