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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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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cruz rejects Trump's support for Muslim registries — SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Ted Cruz on Friday disavowed Donald Trump's support for requiring American Muslims register as such, a rare public break with the current GOP frontrunner. — “I'm a big fan of Donald Trump's but I'm not a fan …
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Washington Post, TIME, Hot Air, ABC News, OnPolitics, Associated Press, American Spectator and CNN
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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BuzzFeed, CANNONFIRE, New York Times, Washington Post and Hullabaloo
Rush Limbaugh:
Drive-Bys Lie and Claim Donald Trump Said Register All Muslims
Drive-Bys Lie and Claim Donald Trump Said Register All Muslims
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Washington Post, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Gateway Pundit and Business Insider
Eliza Collins / Politico:
Clinton: Trump's rhetoric on Muslims ‘shocking’
Clinton: Trump's rhetoric on Muslims ‘shocking’
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The Hill, ABC News, CBS News, Bloomberg Business and Vox
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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YouGov US Opinion Center News, Hot Air and Politico
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 and Des Moines 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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Wall Street Journal:
GOP Operative Plans ‘Guerrilla Campaign’ Against Donald Trump — Move comes as growing number of Republicans fear damage to party's image and ‘Hillary Clinton will become president’ — A well-connected GOP operative alarmed by the enduring strength of Republican Donald Trump's presidential bid …
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The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Talking Points Memo and Politico
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
DNC Ad Attacking Republicans for Saying ‘Radical Islam’ Is Laughably Stupid — A new ad from the Democratic National Committee attacks Republican presidential candidates for using the term “radical Islam.” Entitled “Inciting fear isn't presidential,” the ad argues that the use of the term is offensive to Muslims.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Erick on the Radio and Truth Revolt
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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Hillary: Muslims ‘Have Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Terrorism’
Hillary: Muslims ‘Have Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Terrorism’
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Jihad Watch
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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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’
Utah junior high school asks students to draw ‘terrorism propaganda poster’
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BizPac Review, Mediaite, Associated Press and Washington Post
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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The American Conservative, The Gateway Pundit and Columbia Daily Spectator
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.
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David Batty / Guardian:
Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam
Saudi court sentences poet to death for renouncing Islam
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Mashable and Friendly Atheist
Jacob Poushter / Pew Research Center:
40% of Millennials OK with limiting speech offensive to minorities — American Millennials are far more likely than older generations to say the government should be able to prevent people from saying offensive statements about minority groups, according to a new analysis of Pew Research Center survey data …
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Josh Blackman's Blog, New York Magazine, Liberty Unyielding, Hit & Run, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Infowars and Hot Air
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
Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Regional and State Employment and Unemployment Summary — Technical information: — Employment: (202) 691-6559 sminfo@bls.gov www.bls.gov/sae — Unemployment: (202) 691-6392 lausinfo@bls.gov www.bls.gov/lau — Media contact: (202) 691-5902 PressOffice@bls.gov
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89.3 KPCC, Economic Policy Institute, Wall Street Journal and FiveThirtyEight
Terrence Dopp / Bloomberg Business:
Passenger Taken Off Chris Christie's Flight, Campaign Says — Person removed from San Francisco to Boston plane at takeoff — Passengers on board tell of delay lasting more than two hours — New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican presidential candidate, was on a United Airlines plane today …
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ABC News
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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Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
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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Infowars, Hot Air, Truth Revolt, Israpundit, The Right Scoop and Pamela Geller
Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Bad Obamacare News Is Real. That Doesn't Mean Obamacare Is Dying. — UnitedHealth Group's negative outlook on the health law isn't a good sign, but there's more to the story.
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Mother Jones and Bloomberg View
CNN:
Belgium warns of ‘serious and imminent threat’ to Brussels — Paris (CNN)Belgium has placed Brussels at the highest terror alert level, citing a “serious and imminent threat that requires taking specific security measures as well as specific recommendations for the population.”
Alexa Mouteveli... / NewsBusters:
SICK! ABC's ‘Scandal’ Sets Main Character's Abortion to ‘Silent Night’ — Share it Tweet it — ABC's Scandal just crossed a sickening line in the episode “Baby It's Cold Outside.” The entire hour was an advertisement for Planned Parenthood, but the absolute worst scene was a montage set …
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The Daily Caller, American Spectator, Red Alert Politics and Rush Limbaugh
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.
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Sanders calls for new NATO that includes Russia — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called for a new accord between America, its closest allies and Russia as well as Arab nations as a major plank on how to destroy the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). — “We must create an organization …
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