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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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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 …
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Republicans fear Trump could jeopardize control of Congress — Republicans have spent many years and hundreds of millions of dollars wresting control of the House and Senate from Democrats. — Now they say Donald Trump is putting it all in jeopardy. — With the Iowa caucuses just 55 days away …
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Spokeswoman Defends Muslim Ban: 'So What? They're Muslim' (VIDEO) — While defending Donald Trump's proposed ban on Muslims visiting the United States during a debate with CNN's S.E. Cupp, Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson dismissed Cupp's assertion that a ban on all Muslims goes too far.
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The Week
Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: 68% of Trump's supporters would vote for him if he bolts the GOP
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CNN:
Poll: Donald Trump nearly doubles lead in New Hampshire
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German Lopez / Vox:
Paul Ryan on Donald Trump's proposed Muslim ban: “This is not conservatism”
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Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
HuffPost moves Trump to politics section after Muslim comments
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Biden Calls Trump's Comments on Muslims a ‘Dangerous Brew’
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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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Los Angeles Times:
American Muslims raise more than $100,000 for families of San Bernardino shooting victims — Muslim neurologist Faisal Qazi has launched a nationwide campaign to raise money for the families of the victims in the San Bernardino shooting rampage. The campaign has so far raised more than $100,000 in four days.
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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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Pamela Brown / CNN:
First on CNN: San Bernardino shooter may have planned a 2012 attack, officials say
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Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:
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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Peter J. Spiro / New York Times:
Trump's Anti-Muslim Plan Is Awful. And Constitutional. — Philadelphia — DONALD J. TRUMP'S reprehensible call to bar Muslim immigrants from entering the United States tracks an exam question I've been giving my immigration law students since Sept. 11. Would such a proposal be constitutional?
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Potential Power Shift as Court Weighs ‘One Person One Vote’
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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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Stephen Braun / Associated Press:
Clinton intervened for firm after request to son-in-law — WASHINGTON (AP) — As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton intervened in a request forwarded by her son-in-law on behalf of a deep-sea mining firm to meet with her or other State Department officials after one of the firm's investors …
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Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Cruz Won't Criticize Trump, But Offers His Own Plan To Bar Refugees — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz doesn't want to “get down in the mud and engage in personal insults and attacks” — one reason he's declined to criticize Donald Trump more directly in the wake of his plan to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S.
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Politico
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Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
Carter Banned Iranians from Coming to US During Hostage Crisis — Trump is a monster, a madman and a vile racist. He's just like Hitler. Or Jimmy Carter. — During the Iranian hostage crisis, Carter issued a number of orders to put pressure on Iran. Among these, Iranians were banned …
Detroit Free Press:
We stand together. We are better than bigotry. — America's Muslim community has its deepest roots here in southeast Michigan, home to more Middle East immigrants than any other part of the country. — For more than a century, our Muslim friends and neighbors chose Detroit for the good jobs …
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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Hillary: No, I Didn't Blame the Video in My Meeting With Benghazi Families — Before we circle back to Hillary's statement on ABC News' This Week, let's lay some groundwork first. During her sworn testimony before the Benghazi Select Committee in October, Hillary Clinton was confronted …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Angela Merkel picked as Time's Person of the Year — German chancellor Angela Merkel is Time's Person of the Year for 2015, the magazine's editor-in-chief announced Wednesday morning. — “In a year where world leaders were tested all through the year, no one was tested like she was,” …
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Bloomberg.com news, Deadline, The Gateway Pundit and Business Insider
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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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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Max Paul Friedman / New York Daily News:
Donald Trump's ban on Muslims echoes earliest days of Nazi propaganda: expert — There are discomfiting echoes in the increasing tempo of Trump's invective against Muslims, his insults toward Hispanics and a disabled reporter, and his encouragement of his fans to rough up an African-American heckler …
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