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1:45 PM 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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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Spokeswoman Defends Muslim Ban: 'So What?  They're Muslim' (VIDEO)  —  While defending Donald Trump's proposed ban on Muslims visiting the United States during a debate with CNN's S.E. Cupp, Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson dismissed Cupp's assertion that a ban on all Muslims goes too far.
Discussion: The Week
Peter J. Spiro / New York Times:
Trump's Anti-Muslim Plan Is Awful.  And Constitutional.  —  Philadelphia — DONALD J. TRUMP'S reprehensible call to bar Muslim immigrants from entering the United States tracks an exam question I've been giving my immigration law students since Sept. 11.  Would such a proposal be constitutional?
Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
HuffPost moves Trump to politics section after Muslim comments
Discussion: Daily Wire and Townhall.com
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.
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Los Angeles Times:
American Muslims raise more than $100,000 for families of San Bernardino shooting victims  —  Muslim neurologist Faisal Qazi has launched a nationwide campaign to raise money for the families of the victims in the San Bernardino shooting rampage.  The campaign has so far raised more than $100,000 in four days.
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
San Bernardino shooting planned a year in advance: report
Brian Beutler / New Republic:
Trump Proves That Liberals Have Been Right All Along  —  The left nailed the pathology of the conservative movement years ago.  The Donald is just making that impossible to deny.  —  If you've been following Donald Trump's presidential candidacy and his effect on the Republican primary closely …
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Anna Palmer / Politico:
Republicans fear Trump could jeopardize control of Congress  —  Republicans have spent many years and hundreds of millions of dollars wresting control of the House and Senate from Democrats.  —  Now they say Donald Trump is putting it all in jeopardy.  —  With the Iowa caucuses just 55 days away …
Washington Post:
The “winners”  —  Famous last names.  Enviable poll numbers.  Establishment support.  Lots and lots of money.  The whiff of inevitability.  That's where Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton started 2015.  Both were expected to cruise to their respective parties' presidential nominations.
Discussion: Mother Jones and Bloomberg View
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Margaret Talev / Bloomberg Business:
Joe Biden: I Made ‘the Right Decision’  —  In an interview with Bloomberg, the vice president talks about his late son, his decision to end his 45 years in public office, and his plans for the future.  —  margarettalev  —  More than six months after his eldest son, Beau …
Discussion: Politico
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 …
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.
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Paul Farrell / Guardian:
Reported bitcoin ‘founder’ Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police
Discussion: Bloomberg View, Gizmodo and Hit & Run
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
University Affirmative Action Questioned at U.S. High Court  —  Members of the U.S. Supreme Court clashed over the value of university affirmative action policies, as a pivotal justice raised the prospect that the court might put off issuing a broad ruling.  —  In an argument that ran …
Discussion: Politico
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Daniel Nasaw / Wall Street Journal:
Supreme Court University Affirmative Action Hearing — Live Blog
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Jessica Taylor / NPR:
Cruz Won't Criticize Trump, But Offers His Own Plan To Bar Refugees  —  Texas Sen. Ted Cruz doesn't want to “get down in the mud and engage in personal insults and attacks” — one reason he's declined to criticize Donald Trump more directly in the wake of his plan to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S.
Discussion: New York Times and Politico
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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 …
CNN:
Poll: Donald Trump nearly doubles lead in New Hampshire  —  Washington (CNN)Donald Trump has a growing lead among likely primary voters in New Hampshire, and both he and Marco Rubio have gained ground in the state since September, according to a new CNN/WMUR poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center.
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 …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Know Your Fascist Dictators  —  As long as we're on to the subject of fascist dictators and Donald Trump is now being compared to Adolf Hitler in major urban newspapers, I thought I should speak up on behalf of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini as the true proto-Trump.  —  Mussolini wasn't just a fascist dictator.
Discussion: First Draft and Mashable
Wendy Davis / Politico:
Why I Caved on Guns When I Ran for Governor of Texas  —  I am a lifelong Democrat.  I proudly boast an “F” rating from the NRA.  And, yet during my 2014 gubernatorial campaign in Texas, I supported the open carry of handguns in my state.  —  It is a position that haunts me.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Angela Merkel picked as Time's Person of the Year  —  German chancellor Angela Merkel is Time's Person of the Year for 2015, the magazine's editor-in-chief announced Wednesday morning.  —  “In a year where world leaders were tested all through the year, no one was tested like she was,” …
Wayne Covil / WTVR-TV:
Woman jailed after fleas kill her dog left tied-up and crying for help  —  Josefina Balderao Solis (PHOTO: Riverside Regional Jail)  —  PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, Va. — A woman convicted of misdemeanor animal cruelty was sentenced to 12-months in jail (a six-month active sentence) after fleas killed her dog.
Discussion: KTLA
 
 
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Wspa-Tv / WNCN:
‘Want to P— Off Obama? Buy a Gun,’ SC shop sign reads
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Jeffrey Schogol / Air Force Times:
Air Force Academy football players court controversy by praying in public
Discussion: NBCSports.com and Daily Wire
People.com:
Who's a ‘Gifted Rap Artist,’ Who Loves Jalapeños and Who Went to See Adele on Date Night …
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Dave Miller / WIS-TV:
Afghan flight training members missing from Moody AFB
 Earlier Items: 
Max Paul Friedman / New York Daily News:
Donald Trump's ban on Muslims echoes earliest days of Nazi propaganda: expert
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Eric Stidman / WTHI-TV:
ISP: No arrests made in Hymera town marshal fight; investigation continues
Discussion: WISH-TV and Fox 59
Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
John Kerry should recognize Christian genocide
Discussion: Vlad Tepes
CNN:
Malaysia hunts owners of Boeing 747s abandoned at airport
Discussion: Mediaite
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House votes overwhelmingly to restrict visa waivers for travelers
Discussion: Politico
Indianapolis Star:
Andre Carson, one of 2 Muslims in Congress, attributes death threat to ‘toxic environment’
Discussion: CNN, PoliticusUSA and Raw Story