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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is offering words of support for Muslims who fear retaliation for the recent violent attacks by Islamic extremists in Paris and San Bernardino.
     

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be on the cover of Time Magazine as TIME's 2015 Person of the Year.

Second place went to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State group. The Republican candidate for President of the United States in the 2016  elections, Donald Trump, is third.

Time magazine named German Chancellor Angela Merkel its 2015 "Person of the Year" on Dec. 9, noting her resilience and leadership when faced with the Syrian refugee crisis and turmoil in the European Union over its currency this year.

Donald Trump, the American businessman turned presidential hopeful, threw out another provocation the other day. He argued there must be a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims entering the United States "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on." He, in other words, advanced a religion-based exclusion to normally one of freest countries in the world. 

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump called on Dec. 7 for a "total and complete shutdown" of Muslims entering the United States, unleashing some of the most provocative and divisive remarks of his controversial presidential campaign.

Donald Trump is trying to back away from his support for a government database to track Muslims in the United States, an idea that drew sharp rebukes from his Republican presidential rivals and disbelief from legal experts.

Billionaire Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said on Nov. 16 that the United States should "strongly consider" shuttering some mosques as part of its efforts to prevent extremist attacks in the country.

A steadfast performance by Jeb Bush during the Nov. 10 Republican debate has halted the sense of desperation around his U.S. presidential campaign and may buy him time to counter the rise of chief rival Marco Rubio. 

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump hosted the sketch-comedy show "Saturday Night Live," defying protesters to make the highly anticipated but controversial primetime television appearance.

Ben Carson has placed first in a recent national Republican presidential primary poll, pushing Donald Trump into second place for the first time since June. 

Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, received 26 percent of the support in the New York Times/ CBS News poll released on Oct. 27 morning.