| Paris attacks show U.S. surveillance of Islamic State may be ‘going dark’ Posted: 14 Nov 2015 12:31 PM PST  The attacks underscore the mounting difficulties U.S. and Western intelligence agencies are having in tracking the terror group, resulting in repeated warnings that their efforts to conduct surveillance of Islamic State suspects were "going dark."
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| Five questions about Paris for Clinton, Sanders, and O’Malley Posted: 14 Nov 2015 11:53 AM PST  Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Martin O'Malley will face off Saturday in their second debate, their fight for the Democratic presidential nomination transformed by the devastating terrorist attacks in Paris Friday. In the wake of the deaths of 129 — and counting — the prime-time showdown seems certain to focus heavily on national security, pitting the former secretary of state's more hawkish views against the independent senator's well-known reluctance to use force, while leaving O'Malley hunting for ways to cast himself as a plausible commander-in-chief.
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| Sanders aide pushes back against CBS switch to foreign policy focus for debate Posted: |
| College student from California studying abroad killed in Paris attacks Posted: 14 Nov 2015 04:54 PM PST  By Tori Richards LONG BEACH, Calif. (Reuters) - A California university student who was studying design in France was killed in an attack on a restaurant in Paris, making her the first American confirmed dead in the assault at several sites in the French capital, school officials said on Saturday. Nohemi Gonzalez, 23, was a junior at California State University, Long Beach, just south of Los Angeles, and was studying for a semester at the Strate College of Design in a suburb of Paris, said CSULB spokesman Michael Uhlenkamp. On Friday night, several sites around Paris were targeted in a coordinated assault by gunmen and bombers in what the Paris public prosecutor said killed at least 129 people and wounded more than 350, of whom nearly 100 remain in critical condition.
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| New York, other U.S. cities beef up security after Paris attacks Posted: 13 Nov 2015 08:51 PM PST  By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York, Boston and other cities in the United States bolstered security on Friday night after deadly gun and bomb attacks on civilians in Paris, but law enforcement officials said the beefed-up police presence was precautionary rather than a response to any specific threats. The New York Police Department said officers from its Counterterrorism Response Command and other special units were deployed in areas frequented by tourists, and at the French Consulate in Manhattan. "Teams have been dispatched to crowded areas around the city out of an abundance of caution to provide police presence and public reassurance as we follow the developing situation overseas," the NYPD said in a statement.
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| Supreme Court's Texas abortion ruling to have broad impact in states Posted: 14 Nov 2015 09:29 AM PST  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Friday to hear a challenge to tough abortion restrictions in Texas raises questions about the legal fate of similar laws in more than a dozen other states. The court's ruling, due by June, could spell out the extent to which states can impose clinic regulations likely to restrict access to abortion as an outpatient procedure. If the court upholds the Texas law, similar laws would also fall.
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| Death toll at least 129 in Paris terror attacks Posted: 13 Nov 2015 05:14 PM PST  At least 129 people have been killed in shootings and explosions around Paris, many of them in a popular concert hall where patrons were taken hostage, police and medical officials said. Yahoo News is following the latest in the live blog below.
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| Paris attacks: Harrowing video captures concertgoers fleeing Bataclan Posted: 14 Nov 2015 07:35 AM PST  A French journalist who lives in an apartment behind the Bataclan in Paris captured harrowing footage of concertgoers attempting to escape the concert hall during Friday's terror attacks before he was wounded trying to help a victim on the street below.
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| IS group claims Paris attacks, says France at 'top' of list Posted: 14 Nov 2015 05:21 AM PST CAIRO (AP) — The Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for a wave of attacks in Paris that killed 127 people and said France would remain at the "top of the list" of its targets. |
| Demands at Missouri similar to 1969's, but this time, action Posted: 13 Nov 2015 08:33 PM PST  COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The criticism was blunt: Blacks at the University of Missouri are harassed and threatened, the university has too few African-American faculty members, the administration doesn't seem to care, and all of that needs to change.
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