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Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: 68% of Trump's supporters would vote for him if he bolts the GOP — Donald Trump is defending his controversial plan regarding Muslim immigration. The billionaire business mogul and Republican presidential front runner is facing backlash after calling for a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Biden Calls Trump's Comments on Muslims a ‘Dangerous Brew’ — Vice president says Clinton sure winner if Trump GOP Nominee — Biden won't endorse in Democratic race before primaries — Vice President Joe Biden said Donald Trump's call to stop Muslims from coming to the U.S. is dangerous …
Enjoli Francis / ABC News:
Donald Trump Responds to Critics: Somebody 'Has to Say What's Right'
Donald Trump Responds to Critics: Somebody 'Has to Say What's Right'
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Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg Business:
Ted Cruz Is a ‘Toned-Down’ Donald Trump, Say the Senator's Backers
Ted Cruz Is a ‘Toned-Down’ Donald Trump, Say the Senator's Backers
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Politico, Outside the Beltway, New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo and CNN
Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton forces see 3 possible GOP opponents
Clinton forces see 3 possible GOP opponents
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John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
Choose Trump or Choose the Constitution
Choose Trump or Choose the Constitution
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Suffolk University:
Poll: GOP Leaders Running Neck-and-Neck with Clinton
Poll: GOP Leaders Running Neck-and-Neck with Clinton
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Moderate Voice and Talking Points Memo
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Study: Jeb Bush's tax plan is 4 times as expensive as his brother's tax cuts
Study: Jeb Bush's tax plan is 4 times as expensive as his brother's tax cuts
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Tax Policy Center home, Mother Jones, New York Times and Bloomberg.com news
Matthew Claiborne / ABC News:
Bernie Sanders Calls Donald Trump's Policy Proposal to Ban Muslims ‘Crap’
Bernie Sanders Calls Donald Trump's Policy Proposal to Ban Muslims ‘Crap’
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Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg.com news:
Cruz Rejects Trump's Muslim Ban But Doesn't Reject Trump
Cruz Rejects Trump's Muslim Ban But Doesn't Reject Trump
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The Hill, The Huffington Post, Politico, Patterico's Pontifications and ABC News
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
White Nationalist And Anti-Muslim Fringe Embrace Trump Proposal
White Nationalist And Anti-Muslim Fringe Embrace Trump Proposal
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Telegraph and Pamela Geller
Colin Campbell / Business Insider:
THE WHITE HOUSE: Donald Trump disqualified himself from the presidency — and he has ‘fake hair’
THE WHITE HOUSE: Donald Trump disqualified himself from the presidency — and he has ‘fake hair’
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Pamela Brown / CNN:
First on CNN: San Bernardino shooter may have planned a 2012 attack, officials say — Sources: Farook planned another attack years ago — (CNN)Investigators believe San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook may have been plotting an earlier attack in California with someone else, two U.S. officials said.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
San Bernardino shooting planned a year in advance: report — Last week's mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., that killed 14 was reportedly planned up to a year in advance. — The suspected killers began practicing with guns and making financial preparations in 2014, according to NBC News.
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NBC News and Pamela Geller
NBC News:
San Bernardino Shooters Practiced for Attack a Year in Advance — San Bernardino terror couple Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik spent at least a year preparing for their terror attack, NBC News has learned, practicing at a local gun range and making financial plans for their family after their deaths.
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The Gateway Pundit, Pamela Geller, Washington Post, Independent Journal, New York Daily News and LAist
Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:
Online loan may have helped couple fund their terror arsenal in San Bernardino attack
Online loan may have helped couple fund their terror arsenal in San Bernardino attack
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Wired:
Bitcoin's Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius — Even as his face towered 10 feet above the crowd at the Bitcoin Investor's Conference in Las Vegas, Craig Steven Wright was, to most of the audience of crypto and finance geeks, a nobody.
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Gizmodo:
This Australian Says He and His Dead Friend Invented Bitcoin — A monthlong Gizmodo investigation has uncovered compelling and perplexing new evidence in the search for Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin. According to a cache of documents provided to Gizmodo …
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Vox, New York Times, The Verge, Raw Story and Mashable
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Potential Power Shift as Court Weighs ‘One Person One Vote’ — WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled to decide “what kind of democracy people wanted,” as Justice Stephen G. Breyer put it during an argument over the meaning of the constitutional principle of “one person one vote.”
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Peter J. Spiro / New York Times:
Trump's Anti-Muslim Plan Is Awful. And Constitutional.
Trump's Anti-Muslim Plan Is Awful. And Constitutional.
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Washington Post, Althouse, Prairie Weather and American Power
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House votes overwhelmingly to restrict visa waivers for travelers — The House voted Tuesday to restrict a program that allows people from some countries to come to the U.S. without a visa, responding to growing fears about the threat of terrorism from overseas.
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
‘Fiance visas’ off limits in rush to tighten borders
Javier Moreno / BuzzFeed:
This Girl Whose Entire Family Got Killed In An Act Of Arson Just Wants Cards For Christmas — Safyre Terry of New York is asking people to help her make this Christmas a little more merry. Normally, Christmas is a holiday associated with family, but for Safyre, that just isn't possible.
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Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
HuffPost moves Trump to politics section after Muslim comments — The Huffington Post will be moving it's coverage of Donald Trump to it's politics section, editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington wrote on its website. — The announcement to move the Republican presidential front-runner …
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Donald Trump cancels Katie Couric interview
Donald Trump cancels Katie Couric interview
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Rachel Abrams / New York Times:
Douglas Tompkins, 72, North Face Founder, Dies in Kayaking Accident — Douglas Tompkins, a noted conservationist and the founder of the clothing brands North Face and Esprit, died Tuesday after a kayaking accident on General Carrera Lake in the Patagonia region of southern Chile. He was 72.
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Alix Hines / myfox8.com:
Forsyth County first grader dragged nearly a mile by school bus — FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. — A child was dragged by a school bus for nearly a mile in Forsyth County on Monday afternoon. — According to Highway Patrol, the incident was dispatched as a “child drug by school bus” at 3:43 p.m. Monday.
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Indianapolis Star:
Andre Carson, one of 2 Muslims in Congress, attributes death threat to ‘toxic environment’ — Rep. Andre Carson partly attributed a death threat he's received to politicians' ‘fanning the flames of bigotry.’ — WASHINGTON - Rep. Andre Carson, one of two Muslim members of Congress …
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Fox News:
‘Spinning up as we speak’: Email shows Pentagon was ready to roll as Benghazi attack occurred — As the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was unfolding, a high-ranking Pentagon official urgently messaged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's top deputies to offer military help, according to an email obtained by Judicial Watch.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Hasta la Vista, Socialism! — We have chronicled the catastrophic collapse of socialism in Venezuela here and in many other posts. Government control over the economy, beginning with liberal hero Hugo Chavez and continuing under his successor, Nicolás Maduro, resulted in poverty …
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Kimberly Kindy / Washington Post:
FBI to sharply expand system for tracking fatal police shootings — The FBI's system for tracking fatal police shootings is a “travesty” and the agency will replace it by 2017, dramatically expanding the information it gathers on violent police encounters in the United States, a senior FBI official said Tuesday.