Social Issues

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Illustration on Obama's lack of effective action against ISIS by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency

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Despite a failed attempt to defund the Affordable Care Act at the Senate level, Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell insisted the GOP will find a way to undercut President Obama's signature health care law after Thanksgiving. The Senate's parliamentarian ruled the previous attempt didn't abide by legislative rules. (Associated Press)

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Tim Constantine reports on the possible discrimination against Christian refugees, Obama's plea for Americans to welcome Muslims, and the return of a Woman of the Year award.

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Students at the University of South Carolina staged a walkout on Monday, issuing a list of demands that included increasing racial diversity on campus and providing gender neutral housing. (WLTX 19)

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The U.S. Air Force proposed the MQ-9 Reaper system in response to the Department of Defense directive to support initiatives of overseas contingency operations. It is larger and more powerful than the MQ-1 Predator, and is designed to execute time-sensitive targets with persistence and precision, and destroy or disable those targets. The "M" is the DOD designation for multi-role, and "Q" means remotely piloted aircraft system. The "9" indicates it is the ninth in the series of remotely piloted aircraft systems.

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Migrants family wait to register with the police in a refugee center in the southern Serbian town of Presevo, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015. Refugees fleeing war by the tens of thousands fear the Paris attacks could prompt Europe to close its doors, especially after police said a Syrian passport found next to one attacker’s body suggested its owner passed through Greece into the European Union and on through Macedonia and Serbia last month. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

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Migrants wait to register with the police at a refugee center in the southern Serbian town of Presevo, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015. Refugees fleeing war by the tens of thousands fear the Paris attacks could prompt Europe to close its doors, especially after police said a Syrian passport found next to one attacker’s body suggested its owner passed through Greece into the European Union and on through Macedonia and Serbia last month. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

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Serbian police officers trying to organise migrants queuing to get registered at a refugee center in the southern Serbian town of Presevo, Monday, Nov. 16, 2015. Refugees fleeing war by the tens of thousands fear the Paris attacks could prompt Europe to close its doors, especially after police said a Syrian passport found next to one attacker's body suggested its owner passed through Greece into the European Union and on through Macedonia and Serbia last month. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

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"This bill encourages the private sector to launch rockets, take risks and shoot for the stars," said Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican and chairman of the Science Committee. (Associated Press)

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National Edition News cover for November 16, 2015 - Obama: U.S. still open to refugees : FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 24, 2015 file photo, migrants wait to register with the police in refugee center in the southern Serbian town of Presevo. Balkan authorities are tracking the travels of a man whose Syrian passport was found next to a dead suicide bomber at the national stadium in Paris, France, on Friday night following the terror attacks. Serbian police say he registered at its border entry with Macedonia on Oct. 7, but it is not clear whether the passport was real or fake. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

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The White House decided under intense political pressure in late 2013 to let people with substandard plans keep that coverage instead of forcing them to enter the marketplace and buy plans that met Obamacare's standards. The about-face was an attempt to fulfill Mr. Obama's promise that people who liked their plans could keep them under his signature law. The result was hundreds of thousands of low-risk customers who stayed with their plans. Meanwhile, customers with higher health risks switched to co-op plans, unleashing a tide of claims. (Associated Press)

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President Obama still plans to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees even as Republicans insisted that it's all but impossible to stop terrorists from hiding among the migrants. (Associated Press)

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Activists in Paris take chairs from a bank to protest tax evasion, one of many actions linked to the climate conference known as COP21. A march and other activities have been canceled, however, as a result of terrorist attacks in the city last week. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct.6, 2015, file photo, migrants arrive in a camp set up for refugees from Afghanistan near Moria on the island of Lesbos, Greece. As tens of thousands of Afghans flee war and poverty for a better life in Europe, some are resorting to forged threat letters from the Taliban to strengthen their applications for asylum. (Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP, File)

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Yale University students and faculty rally in November to demand that Yale University become more inclusive to all students on Cross Campus in New Haven, Connecticut. (Associated Press/File)

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Migrants wait to register with the police in refugee center in the southern Serbian town of Presevo, in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. Hundreds of migrants arrive daily into Serbia in order to register and continue their journey further north towards Western Europe. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

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An image posted on social media from outside the Paris restaurant where a shooting occurred.

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Comcast canceled six appointments on Chicago's South Side Wednesday due to "heightened potential [for] violence" in the area, causing priest and famed social activist Michael Pfleger to unleash a public tirade against the media company. (Facebook/@Father Michael Pfleger)

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A black, conservative professor is fighting back against an online petition demanding she be suspended for alleged "discriminatory practices" in the classroom. (Headshots.KevinWimpy.com)

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Tim Constantine reports on immigration as an election issue for Ted Cruz and the rest of the Republican field, Democratic poll numbers heading into their weekend debate, and a surprising change for actor Robert De Niro.