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12:55 AM ET, November 24, 2015

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travel.state.gov:
Worldwide Travel Alert  —  The State Department alerts U.S. citizens to possible risks of travel due to increased terrorist threats.  —  Current information suggests that ISIL (aka Da'esh), al-Qa'ida, Boko Haram, and other terrorist groups continue to plan terrorist attacks in multiple regions.
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
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Shaquille Brewster / NBC News:
Carson Now Says He Didn't See U.S. Muslims Cheer 9/11
Discussion: The Week and Joe.My.God.
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The media has no idea how to deal with Donald Trump's constant lying
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Dear Media, Stop Freaking Out About Donald Trump's Polls  —  Lately, pundits and punters seem bullish on Donald Trump, whose chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination recently inched above 20 percent for the first time at the betting market Betfair.
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Kasich super PAC rolls out first direct Trump attack ad
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 …
Discussion: WGN-TV and Independent Journal
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Emily Strohm / People.com:
Flip or Flop's Tarek El Moussa After Thyroid Cancer Battle: ‘I Have Slowed Down Quite a Bit’
Discussion: Slantpoint and Fox News
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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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Clock Kid Ahmed Mohamed Wants $15 Million in Damages
Discussion: KDFW and National Review
Jason Howerton / TheBlaze.com:
Ahmed ‘Clock Kid’ Mohamed's Family Demands $15 Million From City of Irving, School District — and That's Not All
Megan Apper / BuzzFeed:
Benghazi Committee Member: My Wife Gave Me An “F” On My Second Set Of Questions To Clinton  —  Mike Pompeo — and his family — reviewed the game tape.  —  Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Images  —  Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo, a member of the House Select Committee On Benghazi …
Discussion: Liberaland
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Trump Defends Tweeting Fabricated, Racist Murder Statistics  —  In an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, Donald Trump defended tweeting a series of fabricated murder statistics designed to perpetuate racist stereotypes.  —  “I retweeted somebody that was supposedly an expert and it was also a radio show,” Trump said.
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Cory Bennett / The Hill:
Trump takes heat for tweet about black murder rates
Rosemary Barton / CBC News:
Canada's Syrian refugee plan limited to women, children and families  —  Unaccompanied men not included because of ongoing security concerns  —  Canada's Syrian refugee plan: No single men 1:36  —  The federal government's much-anticipated Syrian refugee plan will limit those accepted …
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German Lopez / Vox:
John Oliver's excellent takedown of the fearmongering about Syrian refugees
Discussion: Bloomberg Business and Big Think
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 …
Discussion: Mediaite, Business Insider and TVNewser
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
TV networks hold conference call to discuss Trump treatment
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 …
David Edwards / Raw Story:
‘N****rs gotta learn how to read’: White Pennsylvania police chief uses racial slur in book drive fundraiser  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  A newly sworn in police chief in Farrel, Pennsylvania said that he planned to make a public apology on Monday after he was caught using the N-word during a book drive fundraiser.
Catherine Herridge / Fox News:
Emails show DOD analysts told to ‘cut it out’ on ISIS warnings; IG probe expands  —  Analysts at U.S. Central Command were pressured to ease off negative assessments about the Islamic State threat and were even told in an email to “cut it out,” Fox News has learned - as an investigation expands …
Erik Baard / Gothamist:
Should The MTA Allow These Nazi Insignias On Subway Cars?  —  Seats on 42nd Street subway Shuttle cars are wrapped with symbols from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, intended to carry commuters into the alternate history of the Amazon TV series, The Man in the High Castle, in which the Axis Powers were victorious.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Americans say Trump Most Likely to Ruin Thanksgiving Dinner; GOP Opposes Obama on Turkey Pardons  —  Donald Trump leads PPP's newest poll by a wide margin...on which candidate Americans think would be the most likely to say something inappropriate at the table and ruin Thanksgiving Dinner.
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Sanders is top contender in Time's Person of the Year poll  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) currently leads online polling for Time magazine's 2015 Person of the Year, with less than two weeks to go before voting ends.  —  The Democratic presidential candidate, a self-described democratic socialist …
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic:
Why Obama Is Standing by the Syrian Refugees  —  Once upon a time, liberals criticized Barack Obama for only taking on fights he knew he could win.  Not anymore.  In 2013, Obama responded to the Sandy Hook shooting with a fervent, if unsuccessful, push for gun control.
Discussion: CNN, FOX40 and USA Today
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Endangered White Rhino Nola Dies at San Diego Zoo Safari Park  —  Nola, one of only four known northern white rhinoceroses, died on Sunday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, the park said in a statement.  The park said that Nola, 41, had a bacterial infection, as well as age-related health issues …
Guy Benson / Hot Air:
New RNC ad: Can these Democratic weaklings be trusted to keep America safe?  —  Consider this the RNC's pointed riposte to Democrats' moronic ad painting Republican presidential candidates as a bunch of unhinged bigots for naming “radical Islam” as our enemy — a fringe stance with which only two-thirds of voters agree.
Ted Johnson / Variety:
NBC Reaches Agreement on Equal Time After Trump's ‘SNL’ Gig  —  NBC has come to an agreement with the campaigns of John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, James Gilmore and Lindsey Graham for equal time following Donald Trump's “Saturday Night Live” hosting gig on Nov. 7, the network said.
 
 
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Los Angeles Times:
$4.9-million settlement in death of mentally ill homeless man Kelly Thomas
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
How GOP campaigns are strategizing for Super Tuesday's delegate bonanza
Lee Stranahan / Breitbart:
CU-Boulder Anti-Racism Rally Canceled Because Organizers Are White
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UPDATE | YSU students meeting now to repaint iconic rock
Christopher Massie / BuzzFeed:
Rand Paul: Boston Bombers Were “Coddled,” Given “Free Stuff” As Refugees
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Jonathan V. Last / Weekly Standard:
Princeton's Snowflake Fascists Get a Scalp
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Washington Post:
Mauricio Macri elected president of Argentina
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Dana Treen / Florida Times Union:
Costumed Dark Lord overcome by the ‘force’ of a jar of salad dressing in Jacksonville Beach
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NPR is graying, and public radio is worried about it
Yossi Melman / Jerusalem Post:
Report: Russian ground troops arrive in Syria in unprecedented military action
Oliver Milman / Raw Story:
Ronald Reagan's EPA chief mocks Republicans for ignoring climate science for political gain
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Tammy Mutasa / WLWT-TV:
Muslim UC student says she was attacked because of her religion
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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