Obama to make primetime address after California attack
President
Barack Obama will make a rare primetime address to the nation Sunday
laying out how he will keep Americans safe and defeat the Islamic State
group, days after 14 people were shot dead in California. Obama declared
Saturday that the United States "will not be terrorized," as IS praised
the couple behind a mass shooting in San Bernardino as "soldiers" of
its self-proclaimed caliphate. Investigators are combing over evidence
and looking into the background of Syed Farook, 28, and his 29-year-old
Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik, the pair who opened fire at a social
services center during a holiday party on Wednesday.Read More ...
Woman in deadly California rampage became fervently devout
In
the final few years of Tashfeen Malik's life, the people around the
young woman saw her dress ever more conservatively and urge people ever
more ardently to live a devout life. For an aunt in Malik's ...Read More ...
Chicago cops' versions of teen's killing at odds with video
CHICAGO
(AP) — Police officers who watched a colleague shoot a black Chicago
teenager 16 times filed reports depicting a very different version of
events than what dashcam footage showed, portraying the teen as far more
menacing than he appeared in the video.Read More ...
Islamic State claims California mass killers as followers
Islamic
State said on Saturday that the married couple who killed 14 people in a
mass shooting in Southern California were its followers, and FBI agents
raided a home apparently belonging to a friend of the husband. Islamic
State's claim came in an online audio broadcast three days after
U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik,
29, opened fire with assault rifles on a holiday party for civil
servants in San Bernardino, 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles.Read More ...
U.S. rethinking strategy on fighting homegrown attacks: NYT
(Reuters)
- U.S. officials, faced with an evolving threat of deadly attacks by
homegrown extremists, are rethinking their strategy on battling domestic
terror after Wednesday's assault that killed 14 people in San
Bernardino, Calif., the New York Times reported on Saturday. The United
States should beef up airline security by increasing agents in overseas
airports, bolster standards for visa waiver programs, and improve
communications between officials and Muslim communities to help locate
threats, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson told the Times.
"We have moved to an entirely new phase in the global terrorist threat
and in our homeland security efforts,” Johnson told the newspaper in an
interview.Read More ...
Obama to address nation on San Bernardino shooting, terrorism Sunday
President
Barack Obama will address the nation on Sunday evening to give an
update on the investigation into the San Bernardino shooting that killed
14 and to discuss terrorism, the White House said on Saturday. The
president will talk about the "broader threat of terrorism, including
the nature of the threat, how it has evolved, and how we will defeat
it," the White House said in a statement.Read More ...
Woman in deadly California rampage had become more devout
The Pakistani woman who joined her U.S.-born husband in killing 14 people remains shrouded in mystery.Read More ...
How El Niño is affecting weather forecasts
Every
two to seven years, trade winds shift and sea surface temperatures warm
in the Pacific, creating the meteorological event. As conditions
change, they trigger a domino effect of disruptive weather patterns
worldwide.Read More ...
New York Times, in rare front-page editorial, calls for outlawing some rifles
The
newspaper's editorial comes three days after Syed Rizwan Farook and
Tashfeen Malik, a married couple, carried out the mass shooting in San
Bernardino with legally purchased, .223 caliber assault-style rifles.
"Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used
in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for
civilian ownership," the New York Times editorial said.Read More ...
An unspoken option if climate talks fail: Geoengineering
PARIS (AP) — It's the option climate negotiators here are loath to talk about.Read More ...
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