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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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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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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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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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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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Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: What Would Donald Do?
The Note: What Would Donald Do?
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Republicans Play “Can You Top This?” Over Refugees
Republicans Play “Can You Top This?” Over Refugees
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Eliza Collins / Politico:
Clinton: Trump's rhetoric on Muslims ‘shocking’
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
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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Hadas Gold / Politico:
CNN sets debate criteria using Iowa, New Hampshire polls
CNN sets debate criteria using Iowa, New Hampshire polls
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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 — and university warns of a bomb threat
Princeton president and protesters reach agreement — and university warns of a bomb threat
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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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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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Katie Glueck / Politico:
How Ted Cruz is locking up the evangelical vote
How Ted Cruz is locking up the evangelical vote
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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