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11:50 AM ET, November 20, 2015

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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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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
New York Times:
Mali Hotel Attack Leaves Dozens Dead; Hostages Are Taken
Discussion: The Diplomat, Boing Boing and The Week
Isabelle Fraser / Telegraph:
Mali hotel attack: gunmen hold 170 hostage at Radisson Blu as third body found at Paris terrorist lair - live
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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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.
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 …
Discussion: RedState, Mock Paper Scissors and CNN
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.
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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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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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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Associated Press:
Utah School Apologizes for Terrorism Poster Assignment
Discussion: Mediaite and Washington Post
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 …
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and Daily Kos
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Fox News
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
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.
Discussion: Independent Journal and Vox Popoli
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
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.
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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James Gallagher / BBC:
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USA Today:
Police used apparently illegal wiretaps to make hundreds of arrests
Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Black Lives Matter and Michael Bloomberg: the oddest couple?
Discussion: Hit & Run
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Oklahoma Man Arrested For 42 Drive-By Shootings In One Night
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