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1:10 PM 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
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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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 …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Talking Points Memo
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: What Would Donald Do?
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump, Cruz inject tough rhetoric on Islam into GOP race
Discussion: Politico, OnPolitics and The Wrap
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Donald Trump Says He'd ‘Absolutely’ Require Muslims to Register
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.
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 …
Katie Glueck / Politico:
How Ted Cruz is locking up the evangelical vote
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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Hadas Gold / Politico:
CNN sets debate criteria using Iowa, New Hampshire polls  —  The criteria for CNN's December presidential debate include a new way for candidates to make the stage: early-state polling strength.  —  Candidates can qualify for the debate through one of three ways: polling averages nationally, in Iowa, and in New Hampshire.
Discussion: Bloomberg.com news
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
NBC gives equal time to Trump's GOP rivals
Discussion: Mashable
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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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
Benjamin Haas / Agence France-Presse:
Chinese police shoot dead 28 from ‘terrorist group’  —  Chinese police have killed 28 members of a “terrorist group” in the mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, authorities announced Friday, in the bloodiest such operation in months and as Beijing denounces Western “double standards” in the wake of the Paris attacks.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
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 …
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
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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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Rubio On Closing Mosques: We Should Close Any Place ‘Where Radicals Are Being Inspired’
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GovTrack.us:
H.R. 4038: American SAFE Act of 2015
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Uncertain Leadership in Perilous Times
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
U.S. Pilots Confirm: Obama Admin Blocks 75 Percent of Islamic State Strikes
Discussion: The Right Scoop and Pamela Geller
James Gallagher / BBC:
Parasitic worm 'increases women's fertility'
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USA Today:
Police used apparently illegal wiretaps to make hundreds of arrests
Discussion: The Verge, FiveThirtyEight and Engadget
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Oklahoma Man Arrested For 42 Drive-By Shootings In One Night
Ashe Schow / Washington Examiner:
‘The Hunting Ground’ crew caught editing Wikipedia to make facts conform to film
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Bloomberg Business:
Why ISIS Has All the Money It Needs
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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

The New York Times Company:
The New York Times names Dick Stevenson as Washington bureau chief; Stevenson has been at the paper for nearly 40 years and Washington editor since 2021

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
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