| Live updates: Mass shooting in California Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:58 PM PST  At least 14 people are dead and another 14 injured at a center in San Bernardino, officials say.
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| Donald Trump on ISIS: ‘You have to take out their families’ Posted:  Donald Trump's plan to defeat the Islamic State involves destroying them — and their families.
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| San Bernardino shooting: What we know about the Inland Regional Center for persons with disabilities Posted: 02 Dec 2015 02:34 PM PST  Gunmen opened fire at the Inland Regional Center for persons with developmental disabilities in California on Wednesday.
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| Millions at stake, the ‘Adelson primary’ is neck and neck Posted:  It is the biggest financial prize in Republican presidential politics: the endorsement of multibillionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.
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| Statue of Liberty inspired by Arab woman, researchers say Posted: 01 Dec 2015 07:03 PM PST  The Statue of Liberty, a symbol of democracy and freedom that has greeted countless immigrants to US shores, was inspired by a project representing an Arab woman guarding the Suez Canal, researchers said. The recent findings are especially startling for some in the United States amid a heated debate over the arrival of refugees from war-scarred Syria and other Muslim majority countries. French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, who traveled to Egypt in 1855-1856, developed there a "passion for large-scale public monuments and colossal sculptures," said the US National Park Service, which guards the Statue of Liberty in New York.
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| When climate negotiations proceed just like an 'action movie' Posted: 02 Dec 2015 01:48 PM PST  With world leaders back home, it's time for the hardcore climate negotiators to work on the more mundane guts of a deal and they are being told to quicken the pace at it. Generally climate negotiations ...
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| Rio's Olympic waterways badly polluted, even far offshore, tests show Posted: 02 Dec 2015 02:09 PM PST  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic sailor Erik Heil floated a novel idea to protect himself from the sewage-infested waters he and other athletes will compete in during next year's games: He'd wear plastic overalls and peel them off when he was safely past the contaminated waters nearest shore.
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| Shooting rampage in California leaves 14 dead, 17 wounded Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:48 PM PST  By Tim Reid and Dan Whitcomb SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on a holiday party on Wednesday at a social services agency in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people and wounding 17 others, then fled the scene, triggering an intense manhunt and a shootoutout with police, authorities said. One suspect was struck by gunfire and one officer was injured, San Bernardino police spokeswoman Sergeant Vicki Cervantes told reporters, adding that a second suspect might still be "outstanding." She did not know the condition of the struck suspect but said the officer's injuries were not considered to be life-threatening. San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said in a televised news briefing earlier that as many as three suspects were believed to have made their getaway in a dark-colored sport utility vehicle.
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| Chicago police force needs a cultural change - mayor Posted: 02 Dec 2015 01:59 PM PST  Chicago's 12,000-member police force, one of the biggest in the country and one of the most prone to use lethal force, needs a cultural change that will take time, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Wednesday in an interview with Politico. Emanuel fired Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Tuesday and has launched a search for a replacement, following protests over the police killing of Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old African-American teenager, which was caught on video. Jason Van Dyke, the white police officer who shot McDonald on Oct. 20, 2014, has been charged with murder and is out on bail.
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| Baltimore officer was negligent in black man's death: prosecutor Posted: 02 Dec 2015 12:45 PM PST  Gray's death in April triggered rioting, arson and protests in the largely black city and fueled a national debate over police tactics and relations with minorities. Gray, 25, died a week after he was taken into custody on April 12 for fleeing an officer and possessing a knife. Chief Deputy State's Attorney Michael Schatzow said Porter was present at five of the six stops the van made the day Gray was arrested, shackled and handcuffed.
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