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2:55 PM ET, November 20, 2015

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Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Donald Trump's Plan for a Muslim Database Draws Comparison to Nazi Germany  —  NEWTON, Iowa — Donald Trump “would certainly implement” a database system tracking Muslims in the United States, the Republican front-runner told NBC News on Thursday night.  —  “I would certainly implement that.
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Donald Trump Retakes Lead in GOP Race; Ted Cruz Makes Gains: Poll  —  In the Republican primary race, the newest NBC News/SurveyMonkey online poll shows Donald Trump has the frontrunner spot to himself, with 28% support among Republican and independent voters who lean Republican.
Kay Steiger / ThinkProgress:
Rubio Trumps Trump: Shut Down Any Place Muslims Gather To Be ‘Inspired’ — Not Just Mosques  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) seems to be going further than even Republican frontrunner Donald Trump in advocating the crackdown of U.S. Muslims.  He doesn't just want to consider shutting down mosques …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Carson: U.S. should have a database on all immigrants
Discussion: Political Wire and ABC News
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Trump, Cruz inject tough rhetoric on Islam into GOP race
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Donald Trump Says He'd ‘Absolutely’ Require Muslims to Register
Michael Falcone / ABC News:
The Note: What Would Donald Do?
Eliza Collins / Politico:   Clinton: Trump's rhetoric on Muslims ‘shocking’
BBC:
Mali attack: Special forces storm hotel to free hostages  —  Malian special forces have entered the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, to end a siege by gunmen.  The hotel says 137 people remain inside.  —  The gunmen stormed the US-owned hotel, which is popular with foreign businesses …
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Daily Mail:
Jihadists kill three as they go ‘floor to floor’ screaming ‘Allahu Akbar’ during AK-47 rampage at Mali hotel and take 170 hostages before freeing those who could recite the Koran  — Radison Blu hotel under attack by jihadists armed with AK-47s and hand grenades in Malian capital of Bamako
Eric Bradner / CNN:
CNN Republican presidential debate criteria announced  —  (CNN)Republicans have three ways to make the cut for the main stage of their fifth presidential primary debate, sponsor CNN announced Thursday.  —  Candidates must meet one of three criteria in polls conducted between October 29 …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
CNN sets debate criteria using Iowa, New Hampshire polls
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Chris Miller / KUTV-TV:
Utah junior high school asks students to draw ‘terrorism propaganda poster’  —  (KUTV) A group of parents in Salem, Utah are angry when they learned their children were handed an assignment this week that required them to draw a “terrorism propaganda poster.”
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama administration takes immigration battle to Supreme Court  —  The Obama administration took the battle over immigration to the Supreme Court on Friday, formally asking the justices to review a federal court decision that left in place a nationwide injunction against President Barack …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Obama Administration Asks Supreme Court to Save Immigration Plan
Discussion: Above the Law
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Farce Awakens  —  Erick Erickson, the editor in chief of the website RedState.com, is a serious power in right-wing circles.  Speechifying at RedState's annual gathering is a rite of passage for aspiring Republican politicians, and Mr. Erickson made headlines this year when he disinvited Donald Trump from the festivities.
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
Woodrow Wilson was extremely racist — even by the standards of his time  —  This Wednesday, a group of Princeton students stormed the offices of president Christopher Eisgruber to demand that Woodrow Wilson's name be removed from all programs and buildings at the university.  That's a big ask.
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Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Princeton president and protesters reach agreement — and university warns of a bomb threat
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Ted Cruz Creates a ‘National Prayer Team’  —  Pray for Ted Cruz.  —  That appears to be among the chief tasks to be undertaken by the Cruz campaign's “national prayer team,” a group announced on Thursday and scheduled to begin its work next month.  —  Mr. Cruz, who has aggressively courted …
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
How Ted Cruz is locking up the evangelical vote
Benjamin Haas / Agence France-Presse:
Chinese police shoot dead 28 from ‘terrorist group’  —  Chinese police have killed 28 members of a “terrorist group” in the mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, authorities announced Friday, in the bloodiest such operation in months and as Beijing denounces Western “double standards” in the wake of the Paris attacks.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
U.S. Pilots Confirm: Obama Admin Blocks 75 Percent of Islamic State Strikes  —  U.S. military pilots who have returned from the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq are confirming that they were blocked from dropping 75 percent of their ordnance on terror targets because they could not get clearance …
Joseph Gerth / Courier-Journal:
Bevin claims Herald-Leader cartoon is racist  —  The Lexington Herald-Leader was buried under an onslaught of phone calls, emails and social media posts after it published an editorial cartoon on Thursday that Gov.-elect Matt Bevin said attacked his children and displayed the …
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Uncertain Leadership in Perilous Times  —  Paris is different, but the president can't seem to change.  —  After great pain, a formal feeling comes—  The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs—  In the days after Paris Emily Dickinson's poem kept ringing through my mind as I tried …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Steve King, Citing Obama's Time In Indonesia, Says Obama Is Filling U.S. With Terrorists  —  “But you know, while I was going on, he was going to a school in Indonesia, so his idea of America is entirely different than the idea that most Americans have of what we ought to be like …
Discussion: Political Wire
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Rubio On Closing Mosques: We Should Close Any Place ‘Where Radicals Are Being Inspired’  —  When asked on Thursday night about Donald Trump's comments that the U.S. may need to shut down mosques in order to prevent terrorist attacks, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) did not criticize the real estate mogul's remarks …
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic:
The Illiberal Demands of the Amherst Uprising  —  At Amherst, a private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, student activists began a sit-in last Thursday at the campus library, intending “to stand in solidarity with the students in Mizzou, Yale, South Africa and every other institution across …
Reid Wilson / Morning Consult:
How Do Voters Feel About Your Governor?  —  Voters take a dim view of just about everything that happens in Washington, D.C., and few believe the country is headed in the right direction.  But those same voters have a much better opinion of officials who govern their own states.
Ashe Schow / Washington Examiner:
‘The Hunting Ground’ crew caught editing Wikipedia to make facts conform to film  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  A crew member from “The Hunting Ground,” a one-sided film about campus sexual assault, has been editing Wikipedia articles to make facts conform with the inaccurate representations in the film.
Discussion: Independent Journal and Vox Popoli
Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Ex-CIA director: Snowden should be ‘hanged’ for Paris  —  A former CIA director says leaker Edward Snowden should be convicted of treason and given the death penalty in the wake of the terrorist attack on Paris.  —  “It's still a capital crime, and I would give him the death sentence …
Discussion: Political Wire and Mediaite
 
 
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