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8:45 AM ET, November 19, 2015

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John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Carson Wins on Personality, Trump on Action in Bloomberg Poll  —  Republicans and Republican-leaning voters are not so enthusiastic about mass deportations, the survey shows.  —  McCormickJohn  —  Republicans overwhelmingly pick Ben Carson over Donald Trump for having the better temperament …
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Bloomberg Poll: Most Americans Oppose Syrian Refugee Resettlement  —  Americans agree with Republican presidential candidates on refugees, but are divided on whether to send U.S. troops to Iraq and Syria to fight the Islamic State, according to the poll.  —  margarettalev
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Cruz to Obama: Insult me to my face  —  GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) challenged President Obama on Wednesday for attacking Republicans who oppose plans to admit thousands of Syrian refugees into the U.S.  —  “It is utterly unbefitting of the president to be engaging …
NBC News:
Poll: A Majority of Americans Oppose Accepting Syrian Refugees
Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
George Takei has the perfect response to a mayor who praised Japanese internment  —  On Wednesday, the mayor of Roanoke, VA, wrote a controversial letter explaining why his administration won't be welcoming Syrian refugees.  The letter from Mayor David Bowers invoked America's history …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Yahoo Politics
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Roanoke Mayor Off Clinton Campaign's Leadership Team After Refugee Remarks  —  “The internment of people of Japanese descent is a dark cloud on our nation's history and to suggest that it is anything but a horrible moment in our past is outrageous,” said Josh Schwerin, a Clinton campaign spokesman.
George Takei / Facebook:
Earlier today, the mayor of Roanoke, Virginia, Mr. David A. Bowers, in the attached letter, joined several state governors in ordering that Syrian refugees not receive any government assistance, or be relocated to their jurisdiction.  Apart from the lack of legal authority to do so …
Natalie DiBlasio / Associated Press:
Va. mayor suggests internment camps over Syrian refugees  —  A Roanoke mayor is getting national attention after citing the use of internment camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II to justify suspending the relocation of Syrian refugees to his city in Virginia.
Discussion: WPRI-TV and Newsalert
Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Trump, Sanders lead respective primaries in New Hampshire  — Home - Video - Politics - U.S. - Opinion - Entertainment - Tech - Science - Health - Travel - Lifestyle - World - Sports - On Air  —  ©2015 FOX News Network, LLC.  All rights reserved.
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New York Times:
Chief Suspect in Paris Attacks Died in Raid, France Says  —  BRUSSELS — Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian militant suspected of orchestrating the Paris terrorist attacks, was killed in a police raid in the northern Paris suburb of St.-Denis early Wednesday, the French authorities announced on Thursday.
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Washington Post:
2 terror suspects dead after French police raid north of Paris
Andrea Cavallier / New York's PIX11:
ISIS New York video: Terror group releases warning of Times Square attack  —  NEW YORK - Terror group ISIS released a propaganda video Wednesday that makes threats against New York.  —  The video shows several scenes in Manhattan including Times Square, a Gap in Herald Square, T.G.I. Friday's and yellow taxi cabs on city streets.
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CNN:
ISIS video threatens New York City; mayor says city won't be intimidated
Discussion: Truth Revolt, FOX 61 and Boing Boing
Gustavo Palencia / Reuters:
Honduras detains five Syrians said headed to U.S. with stolen Greek passports  —  Honduran authorities have detained five Syrian nationals who were trying to reach the United States using stolen Greek passports, but there are no signs of any links to last week's attacks in Paris, police said.
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Gustavo Palencia / Reuters:
Honduras detains Syrians bound for U.S. with doctored Greek passports
Discussion: New York Post and BizPac Review
People.com:
Carly Simon Says 'You're So Vain' Is About Warren Beatty - Well, Only the Second Verse: ‘He Thinks the Whole Thing Is About Him!’  —  For 44 years, the subject of “You're So Vain” has remained one of pop music's most enduring mysteries.  —  But at long last, Carly Simon has solved the mystery - well, sort of.
Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE — REPORT: 8 Syrians Caught at Texas Border in Laredo  —  Two federal agents operating under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are claiming that eight Syrian illegal aliens attempted to enter Texas from Mexico in the Laredo Sector.
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
Ben Carson's campaign made a U.S. map and put a bunch of states in the wrong place … Happy Geography Awareness Week!  Recognizing that “too many young Americans are unable to make effective decisions, understand geo-spatial issues, or even recognize their impacts as global citizens,” …
Judicial Watch:
Clinton Goes after Laugh Factory Comedians for Making Fun of Her  —  In what appears to be a first for a serious presidential contender, Hillary Clinton's campaign is going after five comedians who made fun of the former Secretary of State in standup skits at a popular Hollywood comedy club.
Washington Post:
41 years.  $3 billion.  Inside the Clinton donor network.  —  HOW WE DID IT  —  This project is an effort to identify every known donor who contributed to support Bill and Hillary Clinton over their four decades in public life.  —  Read about our methodology.
Discussion: Political Wire
David Axe / The Daily Beast:
Russia Pounds ISIS With Biggest Bomber Raid in Decades  —  Putin's air force just used its nuclear bombers to lay waste to the capital of the ‘Islamic State.’  —  The Russian air force just pulled off one of the biggest and most complex heavy bomber missions in modern history …
Ben Carson / Washington Post:
My plan to defeat the Islamic State  —  Make no mistake about it: We are at war, and we can't win it with a strategy of containment.  — By Ben Carson-  —  Columns  —  Columns … The Post's View  —  The Post's View … PostEverything  —  PostEverything  —  Paris is a city.
Marissa Payne / Washington Post:
Turkish soccer fans disrupt moment of silence for Paris attack victims  —  Turkish soccer fans disrupted a moment of silence honoring the victims of the Paris attacks before their team drew, 0-0, against Greece in a friendly on Wednesday. … This is at least the second time this year …
Discussion: Mediaite, TodaysZaman, Deadspin and RedState
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Ece Toksabay / Reuters:
Turkey fans BOO during pre-match minute's silence for the victims of Paris attacks and chant …
Associated Press:
Syrian family diverted after Indiana changes refugee policy  —  Two Syrian refugee families who had been approved to be moved to the United States and were scheduled to arrive in Indianapolis on Thursday have been officially told they are not welcome in the Hoosier State.
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Liz Robbins / New York Times:
11th-Hour Detour Puts Family in Connecticut as Indiana Bars Syrian Refugees
 
 
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Clay Travis / Fox Sports:
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Tom Friedman / Ace of Spades HQ:
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Hunter Walker / Yahoo Politics:
Donald Trump has big plans for ‘radical Islamic’ terrorists, 2016 and ‘that communist’ Bernie Sanders
Discussion: Political Wire
Reuters:
Sarajevo gunman commits suicide after killing two soldiers
Discussion: Jihad Watch and The Right Scoop
Barney Frank / Politico:
The Self-fulfilling Prophecy of 'Government Doesn't Work'
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Martin O'Malley Likely To Accept Public Funding, Campaign Says
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Katie Yoder / NewsBusters:
Whoopi Goldberg on Christian Syrian Refugees: ‘Hitler Was a Christian’
Ted / Walid Shoebat:
Don't Pray For France, France Is A Godless Nation That Deserved To Be Attacked. …
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Our two Americas, in 1 map  —  Want to understand the bifurcated nature of our politics?
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