US Governors Balk at Syrian Refugee Plan in Wake of Paris Attacks

At least ten U.S. governors are balking at letting Syrian refugees settle in their states in the wake of the Paris attacks, even as President Barack Obama said Monday he has no intention of ending his plan to accept 10,000 refugees from the war-torn country into the United States. European authorities have found that at least one of the attackers in Friday's deadly onslaught in Paris slipped into Europe amid thousands of Syrians fleeing the country's civil war. Obama told a...

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