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10:05 AM ET, December 9, 2015

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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 …
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and The Week
Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: 68% of Trump's supporters would vote for him if he bolts the GOP  —  Donald Trump is defending his controversial plan regarding Muslim immigration.  The billionaire business mogul and Republican presidential front runner is facing backlash after calling for a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Spokeswoman Defends Muslim Ban: 'So What? They're Muslim' (VIDEO)
Discussion: The Week
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.
Discussion: NBC News and Pamela Geller
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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.
Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times:
Online loan may have helped couple fund their terror arsenal in San Bernardino attack
Discussion: KTLA and fox13now.com
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.
Discussion: Poynter., Guardian, The Verge and Hit & Run
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Paul Farrell / Guardian:
Reported bitcoin ‘founder’ Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police
Discussion: Gizmodo and Hit & Run
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Potential Power Shift as Court Weighs ‘One Person One Vote’  —  WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled to decide “what kind of democracy people wanted,” as Justice Stephen G. Breyer put it during an argument over the meaning of the constitutional principle of “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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Seung Min Kim / Politico:   ‘Fiance visas’ off limits in rush to tighten borders
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 …
Discussion: Hot Air and twitchy.com
Javier Moreno / BuzzFeed:
This Girl Whose Entire Family Got Killed In An Act Of Arson Just Wants Cards For Christmas  —  Safyre Terry of New York is asking people to help her make this Christmas a little more merry.  Normally, Christmas is a holiday associated with family, but for Safyre, that just isn't possible.
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 …
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.
Eric Stidman / WTHI-TV:
ISP: No arrests made in Hymera town marshal fight; investigation continues  —  HYMERA, Ind. (WTHI) - Indiana State Police confirmed early Wednesday that no arrests were made following a scuffle at a Hymera Town Board meeting.  —  Indiana State Police Tuesday night were called to the small town …
Discussion: Fox 59 and WISH-TV
Indianapolis Star:
Andre Carson, one of 2 Muslims in Congress, attributes death threat to ‘toxic environment’  —  Rep. Andre Carson partly attributed a death threat he's received to politicians' ‘fanning the flames of bigotry.’  —  WASHINGTON - Rep. Andre Carson, one of two Muslim members of Congress …
Discussion: CNN, PoliticusUSA and Raw Story
CNN:
Malaysia hunts owners of Boeing 747s abandoned at airport  —  (CNN)Don't you hate it when you forget where you left your Boeing 747-200F?  —  Someone abandoned not one, not two, but three of the massive cargo jets at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Malaysia.
Discussion: Mediaite
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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Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Cruz Won't Criticize Trump, But Offers His Own Plan To Bar Refugees
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Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
John Kerry should recognize Christian genocide
Discussion: Vlad Tepes
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