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Ted Cruz speaks to reporters on the campus of Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C. on Nov. 14, 2015. (Photo by Abby Livingston) MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Sunday continued to call for Muslim refugees from Syria to be barred from entering the U.S. but opening the borders to displaced Christians, arguing there is not a "meaningful risk" that Christians will commit terrorist acts."There is no meaningful risk of Christians committing acts of terror. If there were a group of radical Christians pledging to murder anyone who had a different religious view than they, we...

The root of the evil that has put Paris in mourning and threatens Western civilization is not to be found in long-winded speeches about economic justice, according to Rev. Franklin Graham. It comes down to a religion that seeks to crush everything the West holds dear. “Islam is not a peaceful religion,” Graham said Saturday on Facebook. “In the hours after the horrific attacks some said ‘TERRORISM HAS NO RELIGION.’ Do not be fooled. This attack was done in the name of Allah, the god of Islam,” Graham posted.

Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Ted Cruz speaks to the audience during his event in the pavilion at Sun City Hilton Head the morning of Nov. 16. Delayna Earley During a campaign stop in Sun City Hilton Head Monday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz condemned President Barack Obama's plan to accept up to 10,000 Syrian refugees following the attacks in Paris. The plan "is nothing short of lunacy," Cruz, a presidential contender, told an overflow crowd of hundreds at the community's pavilion. "This is a humanitarian crisis. There are genuine refugees that need to be cared for, but they should be...

The Paris terror attacks may have put a clamp on President Obama's plans to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year, as the number of governors saying they won't take them swells. At the same time, top congressional lawmakers are urging the administration to halt the plan. House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul called on Obama to "temporarily suspend the admission of all additional Syrian refugees" pending a "full review," according to a letter obtained by Fox News. The resistance at the state level is coalescing at a rapid clip. So far, governors in at least 15 states...

French police captured the 8th Islamist attacker connected to Friday’s deadly attacks. Saleh Abdeslam is the brother of ISIS-linked killer Ibrahim who took part in the slaughter. Saleh Abdeslam, 26 years old, was born in Brussels. Police flushed him out with tear gas. Terror suspect arrested in Belgian suburb of Molenbeek after a raid to find Paris terrorist fugitive Salah Abdeslam – dubbed the world’s most wanted man. (Daily Mail) Police flushed Abdeslam out of a safehouse in Belgium. He came running out of the building with his hands up. The Daily Mail reported: “ Paris terrorist fugitive Salah Abdeslam...

There was a strange stillness in the news on Saturday morning, a Saturday morning that came earlier in Paris than it did in Des Moines, a city in Iowa, one of the United States of America. The body count had stabilized. The new information came at a slow, stately pace, as though life were rearranging itself out of quiet respect for the dead. The new information came at a slow and stately pace and it arranged itself in the way that you suspected it would arrange itself when the first accounts of the mass murder began to spread out over...

According to the University of Sydney's website gunpolicy.org, gun control in France is categorized as "restrictive." Keep in mind that, unlike in the U.S., France does not have a "right to bear arms" — the right to privately own a gun is not protected by law. In order to purchase a firearm, one must first obtain a hunting or shooting sporting license that requires a psychological evaluation and regular renewal. Semi-automatic rifles that can hold more than three rounds, as well as rifles and handguns with military-grade calibers, require permits. Fully automatic weapons are completely illegal for civilians. If one...

Full title:Paris attacks: Suicide bomber identified; ISIS claims responsibility for 129 dead. One of the suicide bombers in Friday's attacks has been identified as Ismael Omar Mostefai, according to a French member of Parliament. Mostefai lived in Chartres at least until 2012, said Jean-Pierre Gorges, who is mayor of the French town as well as a member of Parliament, via Facebook.

Athens (AFP) - A Syrian passport found by police at the scene of the mass shooting in a Paris concert hall belonged to an asylum seeker who registered on a Greek island in October, a Greek minister said Saturday. "We confirm that the Syrian passport holder came through the Greek island of Leros on October 3 where he was registered under EU rules," said a statement issued by Nikos Toskas, the minister for citizen protection. French police said the document was found "near the body of one of the attackers" in the investigation into the main attack of Friday's carnage,...

Dozens are dead after what appear to be multiple coordinated terror attacks in Paris. At the same time, there are reports that hostages had been taken at Paris Bataclan concert hall, according to police.

PARIS - Shootings and explosions erupted in the Paris area on Friday night, and French news services said at least 39 people were dead, dozens wounded and others taken hostage in what appeared to be coordinated militant attacks. French television reported that one of at least two explosions had struck near Paris at the country's main sports stadium, forcing the hasty evacuation of President François Hollande. The explosion occurred during a France-Germany soccer match. The shooting broke out at a popular concert hall, The Bataclan, where a death metal band was playing, and the France 24 website said dozens of...

Two police officials said at least 26 people have been killed in shootings and explosions around Paris Friday, in the deadliest violence in France in decades. A police official said 11 people were killed in a Paris restaurant in the 10th arrondissement, and about 15 killed in the Bataclan theater, where a hostage-taking is under way. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to be publicly named according to police policy.

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(Paris: Friday the 13th) As many as 30 people were killed in twin Paris attacks Friday in a coordinated attack by Muslim terrorist with numerous Muslims terrorist seizing the city while screaming Allahu Akbar .At the same time, there was a report that hostages had been taken at Paris Bataclan concert hall by Muslims, according to police. Armed Muslim terrorist are holding people hostage, this will be the future norm of Europe, it is expect as an end result to uncontrolled immigration. Conservatives have been warning this would happen while the left ignored the warnings and kept trying to tell...

BREAKING: Five explosions heard near Bataclan concert hall in Paris: Reuters witness https://t.co/cZozYtD5MG— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) November 13, 2015

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AL GORE IN PARIS: BROADCASTING FROM EIFFEL TOWER AS FRANCE PARIS ATTACK RAGES PARIS (AP) — Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is hosting a 24-hour live webcast from the foot of the Eiffel Tower to drum up attention for this month’s international climate summit in Paris. Gore, who helped negotiate the 1997 climate treaty that failed to control global warming, will host the round-the-clock event that includes musical performances by Elton John, Duran Duran and others. Other concerts will be broadcast from locations around the globe, from Rio de Janeiro to Miami, Sydney and Cape Town. Gore’s aim is...

AT LEAST five people have died and seven have been injured after a high-speed train derailed near the French City of Strasbourg, local media has reported.

One of the bombers in the wave of deadly Paris attacks that killed 127 people Friday night was a young Frenchman flagged for links with Islamic extremism, police said. Officials said the man was involved in the rampage and hostage-taking during a rock show at a Paris concert hall, one of the six sites targeted in a series of gun and bomb attacks launched in rapid succession by at least eight attackers. Gunmen targeted Paris cafés, detonated suicide bombs near France's national stadium and killed hostages inside the concert hall. More than 200 people were injured, dozens critically. Earlier, police...