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travel.state.gov:
Worldwide Travel Alert — The State Department alerts U.S. citizens to possible risks of travel due to increased terrorist threats. — Current information suggests that ISIL (aka Da'esh), al-Qa'ida, Boko Haram, and other terrorist groups continue to plan terrorist attacks in multiple regions.
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Shaquille Brewster / NBC News:
Carson Now Says He Didn't See U.S. Muslims Cheer 9/11
Carson Now Says He Didn't See U.S. Muslims Cheer 9/11
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The Week and Joe.My.God.
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The media has no idea how to deal with Donald Trump's constant lying
The media has no idea how to deal with Donald Trump's constant lying
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Dear Media, Stop Freaking Out About Donald Trump's Polls — Lately, pundits and punters seem bullish on Donald Trump, whose chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination recently inched above 20 percent for the first time at the betting market Betfair.
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
John Kasich Trying To Take Down Donald Trump
John Kasich Trying To Take Down Donald Trump
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Emily Flitter / Reuters:
Donors line up behind Kasich Super PAC planning Trump attack
Donors line up behind Kasich Super PAC planning Trump attack
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Kasich super PAC rolls out first direct Trump attack ad
Kasich super PAC rolls out first direct Trump attack ad
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Bloomberg Business, ABC News, Talking Points Memo and Yahoo Politics
Avi Selk / Irving Blog:
Letters demand $15 million, say Irving officials worked to smear Ahmed Mohamed after clock arrest — Former Irving MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was arrested and interrogated by Irving Police officers after bringing a homemade clock to school. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News)
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Clock Kid Ahmed Mohamed Wants $15 Million in Damages
Clock Kid Ahmed Mohamed Wants $15 Million in Damages
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The Independent:
This TV presenter's life was saved by a viewer who spotted a cancerous lump in his neck — A TV presenter who was diagnosed with cancer after a viewer spotted a lump in his neck has described how his life has changed since his cancer went into remission. Tarek El Moussa co-hosts HGTV's …
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Emily Strohm / People.com:
Flip or Flop's Tarek El Moussa After Thyroid Cancer Battle: ‘I Have Slowed Down Quite a Bit’
Flip or Flop's Tarek El Moussa After Thyroid Cancer Battle: ‘I Have Slowed Down Quite a Bit’
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Slantpoint and Fox News
Megan Apper / BuzzFeed:
Benghazi Committee Member: My Wife Gave Me An “F” On My Second Set Of Questions To Clinton — Mike Pompeo — and his family — reviewed the game tape. — Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images — Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo, a member of the House Select Committee On Benghazi …
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Rosemary Barton / CBC News:
Canada's Syrian refugee plan limited to women, children and families — Unaccompanied men not included because of ongoing security concerns — Canada's Syrian refugee plan: No single men 1:36 — The federal government's much-anticipated Syrian refugee plan will limit those accepted …
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German Lopez / Vox:
John Oliver's excellent takedown of the fearmongering about Syrian refugees
John Oliver's excellent takedown of the fearmongering about Syrian refugees
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Bloomberg Business and Big Think
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Trump Defends Tweeting Fabricated, Racist Murder Statistics — In an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, Donald Trump defended tweeting a series of fabricated murder statistics designed to perpetuate racist stereotypes. — “I retweeted somebody that was supposedly an expert and it was also a radio show,” Trump said.
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Associated Press:
Pro-Islamic State messages painted on Youngstown State rock — Police are investigating messages extoling the Islamic State group that were painted on a large rock at Youngstown State University in northeastern Ohio. — University spokeswoman Shannon Tirone says staff discovered the messages …
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The Right Scoop and Jihad Watch
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘N****rs gotta learn how to read’: White Pennsylvania police chief uses racial slur in book drive fundraiser — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — A newly sworn in police chief in Farrel, Pennsylvania said that he planned to make a public apology on Monday after he was caught using the N-word during a book drive fundraiser.
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Why Obama Is Standing by the Syrian Refugees — Once upon a time, liberals criticized Barack Obama for only taking on fights he knew he could win. Not anymore. In 2013, Obama responded to the Sandy Hook shooting with a fervent, if unsuccessful, push for gun control.
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Sanders is top contender in Time's Person of the Year poll — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) currently leads online polling for Time magazine's 2015 Person of the Year, with less than two weeks to go before voting ends. — The Democratic presidential candidate, a self-described democratic socialist …
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addictinginfo.org and Common Dreams
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
TV networks unite to fight Trump's restriction on journalists' access — Network TV news representatives will confer Monday to hash out demands about access to Donald Trump's presidential campaign after Trump officials last week threatened to “blacklist” reporters who left a designated media …
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Mediaite, Business Insider and TVNewser
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
TV networks hold conference call to discuss Trump treatment
TV networks hold conference call to discuss Trump treatment
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Pew: White Christians no longer a majority — White Christians now make up less than half of the U.S. population, largely receding from the majorities of most demographic groups, with one notable exception: the Republican Party. — According to the latest results from Pew Research Center's …
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Booman Tribune, addictinginfo.org, Zandar Versus The Stupid and Washington Monthly
Erik Baard / Gothamist:
Should The MTA Allow These Nazi Insignias On Subway Cars? — Seats on 42nd Street subway Shuttle cars are wrapped with symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, intended to carry commuters into the alternate history of the Amazon TV series, The Man in the High Castle, in which the Axis Powers were victorious.
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Mediaite, The Verge, New York's PIX11, UPROXX and New York Magazine
Guy Benson / Hot Air:
New RNC ad: Can these Democratic weaklings be trusted to keep America safe? — Consider this the RNC's pointed riposte to Democrats' moronic ad painting Republican presidential candidates as a bunch of unhinged bigots for naming “radical Islam” as our enemy — a fringe stance with which only two-thirds of voters agree.
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Bloomberg View, Washington Post and Truth Revolt
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Emails show DOD analysts told to ‘cut it out’ on ISIS warnings; IG probe expands — Analysts at U.S. Central Command were pressured to ease off negative assessments about the Islamic State threat and were even told in an email to “cut it out,” Fox News has learned - as an investigation expands …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Americans say Trump Most Likely to Ruin Thanksgiving Dinner; GOP Opposes Obama on Turkey Pardons — Donald Trump leads PPP's newest poll by a wide margin...on which candidate Americans think would be the most likely to say something inappropriate at the table and ruin Thanksgiving Dinner.
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