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5:55 PM ET, December 8, 2015

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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Reince Priebus condemns Trump on Muslim ban  —  Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More  —  Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Tuesday condemned Donald Trump's proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the United States.  —  “I don't agree,” Priebus said.
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Dylan Byers / CNNMoney:
Donald Trump cancels Katie Couric interview  —  Donald Trump canceled a scheduled interview with Katie Couric on Tuesday amid the ongoing controversy over his call to ban Muslims from entering the United States, a Yahoo News spokesperson confirmed.  —  “He just abruptly canceled last night …
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.”
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Donald Trump May Not Get the Nomination, But He Has Already Won  —  The triumph of anti-Muslim bigotry.  —  In his speech from the Oval Office on Sunday night, President Obama took care to urge his fellow citizens not to equate the extremism of ISIS with the beliefs of Muslims as a whole.
Michael Scherer / TIME:
Exclusive: Donald Trump Says He Might Have Supported Japanese Internment  —  Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told TIME that he does not know whether he would have supported or opposed the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Erick Erickson / RedState:
This is a Brilliant Move by Donald Trump  —  Donald Trump just trumped all the Republican candidates for President.  —  The day after the mom jeans wearing squat to pee President came out to assure us that tolerance, gun control, and climate change would save us from ISIS …
Nia-Malika Henderson / CNN:
After call to ban Muslims, is the GOP ready to unite against Trump?  —  (CNN)Donald Trump has done it again.  —  Less than 24 hours after President Barack Obama aimed to set the tone for the country on a response to the threat of terrorism with an Oval Office address, Trump only needed …
Daily Mail:
Republicans' most senior leader disowns Trump for demand to ban all Muslims saying it is 'not …
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
A Note on Trump: We Are No Longer Entertained
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump Getting Stronger in NC; Islamophobia Helps Fuel That Strength
Claire McNeill / Tampa Bay Times:
With a tweet, Mayor Rick Kriseman ‘bars’ Donald Trump from St. Petersburg
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Donald Trump Talks About San Bernardino Shooter (Corrected)
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and MSNBC
Ben Domenech / The Federalist:
Welcome To Barack Obama's America
Discussion: Washington Post and alicublog
Eliza Collins / Politico:
White House denounces Trump
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.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Hears Arguments on ‘One Person One Vote’  —  WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled to decide “what kind of democracy people want,” as Justice Stephen G. Breyer put it during an argument over the meaning of the constitutional principle of “one person one vote.”
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.
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Shooting targets, GoPro packaging, hammer and ‘vise grips’ found by FBI in car belonging to San Bernardino shooter's MOTHER  — Car registered to Rafia Farook was searched by FBI agents after her son and daughter-in-law massacred 14 last Wednesday
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Fox News:
Bank records show $28,500 deposit to Syed Farook's account two weeks before the shooting, source says
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
A Missed Warning?  —  Scanner traffic indicates law enforcement …
Discussion: Fox News Insider and Pamela Geller
Michael Matza / Philly.com:
Severed pig's head left at N. Phila. mosque  —  Philadelphia police, the FBI, and the city's Human Relations Commission launched investigations Monday after a worker at a North Philadelphia mosque found a severed pig's head outside its door.  —  Surveillance video outside the Al Aqsa Islamic Society …
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Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Severed pig's head thrown at Philadelphia mosque door
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Week and NPR
Mary Forsberg Weiland / Rolling Stone:
Scott Weiland's Family: 'Don't Glorify This Tragedy'  —  A letter from late singer's ex-wife, Mary Weiland, on behalf of his two children … December 3rd, 2015 is not the day Scott Weiland died.  It is the official day the public will use to mourn him, and it was the last day he could be propped …
Lauren French / Politico:
GOP rift opens as shutdown deadline nears  —  With government funding set to run out in just three days, divisions within the House Republican Conference are surfacing yet again.  —  Speaker Paul Ryan and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy are determined to wrap up a yearlong spending bill this month …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and Washington Post
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ERIC POSNER:
Is an immigration ban on Muslims unconstitutional?  —  Probably not.  The Supreme Court has held consistently, for more than a century, that constitutional protections that normally benefit Americans and people on American territory do not apply when Congress decides who to admit and who to exclude as immigrants or other entrants.
Nicole Perez / Albuquerque Journal:
Son in hot water as mom stews over posole burglary  —  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jonathan Ray wanted some of his mom's posole last week.  —  So much so that, police say, he broke into her Northeast Albuquerque home, made a beeline for the fridge and ran away with a pot of homemade posole.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Diane Rehm, an NPR staple, eyes retirement from broadcasting  —  Diane Rehm, the host of one of public radio's longest-running and most popular news discussion programs, will retire next year, ending nearly 40 years on the air.  —  A retirement date has not been firmly established, but Rehm …
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Inside The Sad, Strange Family Feud That Helped Sink Rand Paul  —  Among the many early obituaries for Rand Paul's presidential campaign that have lately littered the internet, one story has remained largely untold: the intensely personal father-son rivalry that helped derail the younger Paul's presidential ambitions — twice.
Discussion: Salon
 
 
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Michael E. Mann / New York Times:
The Assault on Climate Science
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Daily Mail:
Convert who protested outside Parliament over Syrian airstrikes with poster saying 'I am a Muslim …
Tom Gjelten / NPR:
Some Muslim Americans Irritated By Obama's Call For Them To ‘Root Out’ Extremism
Discussion: BizPac Review and Daily Wire
Los Angeles Times:
Editorial Should people on the no-fly list be able to buy guns? Yes.
Discussion: Slate and JustOneMinute