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Obama insists U.S. 'will not be terrorized&#39

Posted: 05 Dec 2015 02:50 PM PST

Obama says 'We will not be terrorized' after California shootingAs ISIS hails the Calif. shooters, the president pledges strength and resilience.


Chicago cops' versions of teen's killing at odds with video

Posted: 05 Dec 2015 02:23 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2014 frame from dash-cam video provided by the Chicago Police Department, Laquan McDonald, right, walks down the street moments before being shot by officer Jason Van Dyke in Chicago. Amid an outcry after the city waited more than a year to release dash-cam footage of Officer Van Dyke shooting McDonald 16 times, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced this week that he was setting up a special task force to examine, among other things, the city's video-release policy. (Chicago Police Department via AP, File)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.


How El Niño is affecting weather forecasts

Posted: 04 Dec 2015 11:12 PM PST

Now I Get It: El NiñoEvery 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.


Woman in deadly California rampage had become more devout

Posted: 05 Dec 2015 04:30 PM PST

Syed Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people in San Bernardino, CaliforniaThe Pakistani woman who joined her U.S.-born husband in killing 14 people remains shrouded in mystery.


New York Times, in rare front-page editorial, calls for outlawing some rifles

Posted: 05 Dec 2015 02:02 PM PST

Aerial photo of an SUV with its windows shot out that police suspect was the getaway vehicle from at the scene of a shooting in San Bernardino, CaliforniaThe 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.


An unspoken option if climate talks fail: Geoengineering

Posted: 05 Dec 2015 12:59 AM PST

Ice blocks from Greenland placed in front of Paris' PantheonIt's the option climate negotiators here are loath to talk about. What if they fail to curb global warming and the environment gets so dangerous that someone decides to do something drastic and play mad ...


Islamic State says California mass killers were their followers

Posted: 05 Dec 2015 02:32 PM PST

Syed Rizwan Farook is pictured in this undated handout photoBy Yasmeen Abutaleb and Rory Carroll SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Islamic State said on Saturday that the married couple who killed 14 people in a mass shooting in California which U.S. authorities are investigating as an act of terrorism were followers of the militant group. The claim was made in an online audio broadcast three days after U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 29, from Pakistan, opened fire with assault rifles on a holiday party for civil servants in San Bernardino, 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles.


Police say shooting, hostage scene in Wisconsin now safe

Posted: 05 Dec 2015 12:17 PM PST

Police responded to shots being fired at Eagle Nation Cycles in Neenah and a report of potential hostages around 9 a.m. local time, city Police Chief Kevin Wilkinson said at a press conference. Neenah is a city of about 25,000 people some 100 miles (160 km) north of Milwaukee. "The scene has been made safe," Wilkinson said.

Obama to address nation on San Bernardino shooting, terrorism Sunday

Posted: 05 Dec 2015 04:11 PM PST

U.S. President Obama speaks about the California shootings from the White House in WashingtonPresident 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.


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