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8:55 AM ET, December 9, 2015

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The Times of Israel:
Netanyahu set to meet Trump, as MKs urge candidate be shunned  —  Sources say December 28 powwow was scheduled two weeks ago, before GOP front-runner's call to ban Muslims from entering US; Arab-Israeli MK seeks to bar Trump from Israel  —  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set …
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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.”
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 …
Steven Ginsberg / Washington Post:
“I. Will.  Never.  Leave.  This.  Race.”  —  Donald Trump came down the stairs, stopped in the middle of the clubhouse restaurant, thrust his arms out and proclaimed: “How great is this?”  —  It was his way of saying hello and also a declaration of how America's boss planned to try to own the room …
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and The Week
Anna Palmer / Politico:
Republicans fear Trump could jeopardize control of Congress
Discussion: The Week
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Reince Priebus condemns Trump on Muslim ban
Matthew Claiborne / ABC News:
Bernie Sanders Calls Donald Trump's Policy Proposal to Ban Muslims ‘Crap’
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.
Discussion: 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.
Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:
Online loan may have helped couple fund their terror arsenal in San Bernardino attack
Discussion: KTLA and fox13now.com
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.
Discussion: Guardian, The Verge and Hit & Run
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Paul Farrell / Guardian:
Reported bitcoin ‘founder’ Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police
Discussion: Gizmodo and Hit & Run
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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ERIC POSNER:
Is an immigration ban on Muslims unconstitutional?
Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton forces see 3 possible GOP opponents  —  Hillary Clinton's super PAC backers and operatives who are gearing up for the general election fight are preparing for three possible opponents — Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.  —  Though they say they'll be ready for any outcome …
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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
CNN:
House passes visa waiver overhaul
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and WREG-TV
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.
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: CNN, PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
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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Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch: New Benghazi Email Shows DOD Offered State Department “Forces that Could Move …
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 …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
 
 
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Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
John Kerry should recognize Christian genocide
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CNN:
Malaysia hunts owners of Boeing 747s abandoned at airport
Discussion: Mediaite
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