Clinton takes shot at Trump: 'Shouldn't let anybody bully his way to the presidency'
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San Bernardino killer denied militancy in U.S. entry papers
By
Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen
Malik denied having any militant sympathies or intentions when she was
asked in an application form for a U.S. visa two years ago, documents
described to Reuters on Tuesday showed. The papers also showed that
statements by Malik and her husband and fellow shooter Syed Rizwan
Farook did not raise any alarms among authorities that they were
potential Islamic State militants. U.S.-born Farook said they first met
in person and became engaged during the October 2013 Haj pilgrimage to
Mecca with their respective families, according to other documents
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Bowe Bergdahl Enters No Plea at Arraignment
Army
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl deferred entering a plea this morning against
charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, after he
allegedly deserted his unit in 2009 and was then held captive by the
Taliban in Afghanistan for five years. If Bergdahl is convicted of
misbehavior before the enemy, he could face a life sentence, while the
desertion charge carries a maximum five-year sentence. Bergdahl entered
his request to be defended by civilian lawyer Eugene Fidell and military
lawyer Capt. Frank Rosenblatt rather than the appointed detailed
military defense counselor.Read More ...
Trump denies using 'vulgar' language to mock Clinton
WASHINGTON
(AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday
dismissed reports that he used vulgarity in describing Democrat Hillary
Clinton's primary loss to now-President Barack Obama in 2008.Read More ...
AP Poll: Islamic State conflict voted top news story of 2015
NEW
YORK (AP) — The far-flung attacks claimed by Islamic State militants
and the intensifying global effort to crush them added up to a grim,
gripping yearlong saga that was voted the top news story of 2015,
according to The Associated Press' annual poll of U.S. editors and news
directors.Read More ...
No indictments in Sandra Bland jail death
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Bowe Bergdahl arraigned at North Carolina Army base
Wearing
a dress blue uniform, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl faced a military judge Tuesday
for the first time since the U.S. Army decided to proceed with a
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Suspect in Vegas car-ramming to face murder charge
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Identities revealed for all six U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan attack
By
Barbara Goldberg NEW YORK (Reuters) - A female Air Force officer who
was one of the first openly gay U.S. service members to get married was
identified on Tuesday as one of the six U.S. troops killed by a suicide
bomber near Bagram air base in Afghanistan. Air Force Major Adrianna
Vorderbruggen, who was commanding the security patrol targeted in
Monday's attack, was the first openly gay U.S. servicewoman killed in
action, the Daily Beast news website reported, citing a Department of
Defense official. Vorderbruggen, 36, was assigned to the Air Force
Office of Special Investigations (OSI), the main law enforcement branch
of the Air Force.Read More ...
Real estate heir Robert Durst to be extradited to Los Angeles in writer's death
(Reuters)
- Real estate heir Robert Durst, charged in the 15-year-old murder of a
longtime friend as a television show suggested he might have killed
her, will return to California from Louisiana to face a homicide charge,
prosecutors said on Tuesday. Durst, who also faces charges of illegal
firearms possession in federal court in Louisiana, will be arraigned on a
single murder charge in the 2000 killing of writer Susan Berman by Aug.
18, 2016 in Superior Court in Los Angeles, District Attorney Jackie
Lacy said.Read More ...
Judge upholds Seattle's 'gun violence' tax
The
Seattle City Council unanimously approved a "gun violence tax" on
sellers of firearms and ammunition in August, directing proceeds toward
violence prevention programs and research beginning in January 2016. A
companion measure requires gun owners to report cases of lost and stolen
firearms to police.Read More ...
SpaceX launches rocket 6 months after accident, then lands
SpaceX
sent a Falcon rocket soaring toward orbit Monday night with 11 small
satellites, its first mission since an accident last summer. Then in an
even more astounding feat, it landed the 15-story leftover ...Read More ...
California shooters' ex-neighbor denied bail in terrorism case
A
federal magistrate on Monday denied bail to the man accused of
providing the assault-style rifles used by a married couple to massacre
14 people in San Bernardino, California, in an attack inspired by
Islamic State. Enrique Marquez, 24, who told authorities he had plotted
attacks with Syed Rizwan Farook before their friendship waned, was
shackled for his court appearance and visibly upset by the refusal to
grant bail, frowning as he left the courtroom in chains. Marquez was
arrested on Friday and charged with providing material support to
terrorists for supplying Farook, 28, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29,
with the weapons for their Dec. 2 attack on a holiday party attended by
Farook's co-workers.Read More ...
Lindsey Graham drops out of 2016 presidential race
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Obama chides Republicans for lack of alternatives on Islamic State
By Julia Edwards HONOLULU (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said his administration is open to some "legitimate criticism" for failing to adequately explain its strategy to counter Islamic State, though he chided Republican presidential candidates for criticizing his policy without offering an alternative. In a Dec. 17 interview set to air on NPR public radio at 5 a.m. ET on Monday, Obama attributed his low approval ratings for how he has handled terrorism to the saturation of Islamic State attacks in the media after the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Obama noted that the United States has carried out 9,000 strikes against the Islamic State and taken back towns including Sinjar, Iraq from the militant group.
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