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4:40 PM ET, November 23, 2015

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Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The media has no idea how to deal with Donald Trump's constant lying  —  Donald Trump's interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week (above) is a great distillation of why covering the Republican frontrunner is proving so difficult for mainstream press outlets.  —  On the one hand, he demands coverage.
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Peter Kinder / Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings …:
Donald Trump: “I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering" as the World Trade Center collapsed.  —  “I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering” as the World Trade Center collapsed.
Tal Kopan / CNN:
Donald Trump's 9/11 celebration claim widely disputed  —  Trump: Muslim-Americans cheered after 9/11 attacks  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump twice repeated over the weekend that he saw people cheering in New Jersey after the September 11 attacks — but his claims are being widely disputed as false.
Mark Niquette / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Heads to Ohio as Rivals Sharpen Attacks After Wild Week
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Kasich super PAC rolls out first Trump attack ad
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Beyond Distrust: How Americans View Their Government  —  Broad criticism, but positive performance ratings in many areas  —  Overview  —  A year ahead of the presidential election, the American public is deeply cynical about government, politics and the nation's elected leaders in a way that has become quite familiar.
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Cory Bennett / The Hill:
Trump takes heat for tweet about black murder rates  —  Donald Trump is taking heat on social media for a Sunday afternoon tweet of statistics purporting to show that the vast majority of murdered black people in the U.S. are killed by other black people.  —  The tweet was apparently Trump's response …
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Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
We Found Where Donald Trump's “Black Crimes” Graphic Came From
Avi Selk / Irving Blog:
Letters demand $15 million, say Irving officials worked to smear Ahmed Mohamed after clock arrest  —  Former Irving MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was arrested and interrogated by Irving Police officers after bringing a homemade clock to school.  (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News)
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Jason Howerton / TheBlaze.com:
Ahmed ‘Clock Kid’ Mohamed's Family Demands $15 Million From City of Irving, School District — and That's Not All
The Independent:
This TV presenter's life was saved by a viewer who spotted a cancerous lump in his neck  —  A TV presenter who was diagnosed with cancer after a viewer spotted a lump in his neck has described how his life has changed since his cancer went into remission.  Tarek El Moussa co-hosts HGTV's …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
TV networks unite to fight Trump's restriction on journalists' access  —  Network TV news representatives will confer Monday to hash out demands about access to Donald Trump's presidential campaign after Trump officials last week threatened to “blacklist” reporters who left a designated media …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:   TV networks hold conference call to discuss Trump treatment
Sarah Karlin / Politico:
Clinton criticizes Pfizer-Allergan merger, calls for inversions crackdown  —  Hillary Clinton said she has “deep concerns” with the $160 billion Pfizer and Allergan merger announced this morning and called on Congress to take quick action to prevent large corporations from shifting …
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New York Post:
ObamaCare's imploding even without repeal  —  It's looking like ObamaCare won't survive even if Congress can't manage to repeal it.  —  The nation's largest health insurer, UnitedHealth Group, said last week that it's losing too much — $425 million — from policies sold on the health exchanges, and may have to pull out by 2017.
Discussion: The Other McCain
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Health Reform Lives!
Discussion: Washington Post
Nick Gass / Politico:
Pew: White Christians no longer a majority  —  White Christians now make up less than half of the U.S. population, largely receding from the majorities of most demographic groups, with one notable exception: the Republican Party.  —  According to the latest results from Pew Research Center's …
Discussion: addictinginfo.org
David Remnick / New Yorker:
Telling the Truth About ISIS and Raqqa  —  On Saturday night, five young Syrians slouched into a dive bar in New York and ordered drinks.  When the bartender asked if off-brand vodka was O.K., they had to smile.  They were all exiles from Raqqa, the provincial city in northern Syria that ISIS …
Discussion: BillMoyers.com and National Review
Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
The Opportunist  —  On the morning of October 10th, Marco Rubio, Florida's junior senator, mounted a small stage at the Elks Lodge in Boulder City, Nevada, a popular retirement spot near Las Vegas.  In his twenties, as an obscure Republican state legislator, Rubio exhibited such innate political skill …
Tammy Mutasa / WLWT-TV:
Muslim UC student says she was attacked because of her religion  —  'I'm terrified to cross the street now,' woman says  —  A Muslim woman is speaking out after she says she was called a terrorist and almost run over by an angry man in Clifton Monday night.
Discussion: Raw Story and LiberalAmerica.org
Fred Barbash / Washington Post:
Ben Carson, author of book about the Constitution, incorrectly states that Thomas Jefferson crafted it  —  It's a common misconception that Thomas Jefferson participated in drafting the United States Constitution in 1787.  But as Republican presidential candidate and retired pediatric …
Dana Treen / Florida Times Union:
Costumed Dark Lord overcome by the ‘force’ of a jar of salad dressing in Jacksonville Beach  —  The all-encompassing Force made famous in the fictional “Star Wars” universe didn't extend to a Dark Lord wanna-be in Jacksonville Beach Sunday.  —  Instead, the Darth Vader-costumed would-be robber …
Discussion: Slantpoint, WJXX-TV and NOLA River
Ari Melber / MSNBC:
Ex-Benghazi investigator sues Trey Gowdy for discrimination and defamation  —  A former investigator for the House Benghazi Committee filed a federal lawsuit against the committee Monday, opening a new chapter in legal skirmishes over the Benghazi attacks and subsequent investigations.
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Rand Paul: Boston Bombers Were “Coddled,” Given “Free Stuff” As Refugees  —  Rand Paul said on Friday that the Boston bombers came to America as refugees and were “coddled” and given “free stuff,” before they “decided to attack us.”  —  “The Boston bombers came here and as refugees …
Discussion: Mediaite
 
 
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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Princeton's Snowflake Fascists Get a Scalp
Discussion: New York Times and ACS Blog
Washington Post:
Mauricio Macri elected president of Argentina
Discussion: Hot Air
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NPR is graying, and public radio is worried about it
Kaitlyn Schallhorn / TheBlaze.com:
‘We Are Coming’: Threatening Pro-Islamic State Messages on U.S. College Campus
Yossi Melman / Jerusalem Post:
Report: Russian ground troops arrive in Syria in unprecedented military action
 Earlier Items: 
German Lopez / Vox:
John Oliver's excellent takedown of the fearmongering about Syrian refugees
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and Big Think
Oliver Milman / Raw Story:
Ronald Reagan's EPA chief mocks Republicans for ignoring climate science for political gain
Discussion: addictinginfo.org
John Nolte / Associated Press:
Blowhard Box Office Blowback: ‘Mockingjay’ Underperforms; Seth Rogen, Julia Roberts Tank
Discussion: Forbes, Raw Story and Deadline
Derek Hunter / The Daily Caller:
Backfire: Hillary Tweets All Sexual Abuse Accusers Deserve To Be ‘Believed,’ Is Reminded Of Her Husband
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Rush Limbaugh