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Jack Dolan / Los Angeles Times:
San Bernardino shooting suspect traveled to Saudi Arabia, was married, appeared to be living ‘American Dream,’ co-workers say — Fourteen people were killed when two attackers opened fire at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. — As the holiday gathering got underway Wednesday morning …
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Rich Schapiro / New York Daily News:
GOP presidential candidates offer prayers — not solutions on gun control — after San Bernardino massacre — Prayers aren't working. — Another mass shooting prompted another round of silence Wednesday from GOP presidential candidates on the issue of gun control.
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CNN:
San Bernardino: At least 14 people killed in mass shooting; 2 suspects identified — San Bernardino, California (CNN)Two suspects died in a gun battle with police Wednesday hours after authorities say they burst into a holiday party at a center for people with developmental disabilities and killed 14 people.
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New York Times:
F.B.I. Treats San Bernardino Attack as Possible Terrorism Case — SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — The married couple suspected of killing 14 people at a social services center had built more than a dozen pipe bombs and stockpiled thousands of rounds of ammunition, officials said Thursday …
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Los Angeles Times:
San Bernardino suspects' huge cache of bullets and bombs enough for ‘another attack,’ officials say — Fourteen people were killed when two attackers opened fire at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. — Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik fired at least 65 bullets when they stormed …
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Guns: Time to Call the Liberal Bluff? — Last week the left attacked Republican leaders who stayed silent about the shooting at the Planned Parenthood abattoir in Colorado Springs, but yesterday, as Scott notes below, the left attacked Republicans who expressed condolences and prayers for the victims of the San Bernardino shooting.
Christopher Ingraham / Washington Post:
The San Bernardino shooting is the second mass shooting today and the 355th this year — Authorities in San Bernardino, Calif., saying 14 people were killed and 14 others were injured in a mass shooting on Wednesday at a center for people with developmental disabilities.
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Los Angeles Times:
White House plans executive action to expand background checks for gun sales — President Obama speaks in the Oval Office about Wednesday's shooting in San Bernardino that left 14 people dead and 17 wounded. — White House officials are seeking a way to use executive authority to close …
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New York Times:
Couple Kept Tight Lid on Plans for San Bernardino Shooting — ANAHEIM, Calif. — On Wednesday morning, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, left their 6-month-old daughter with Mr. Farook's mother, telling her they were dipping out for a doctor's appointment, a relative said.
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Fox News:
Police identify 2 suspects in California massacre; terrorism not ruled out — A Southern California county government employee and his wife killed 14 people and wounded 17 others at a San Bernardino office building in a precision assault Wednesday morning before they were killed in a shootout with police in the afternoon.
New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Father of San Bernardino shooting suspect Syed Farook says son worked as health tech …
EXCLUSIVE: Father of San Bernardino shooting suspect Syed Farook says son worked as health tech …
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NBC News:
San Bernardino Killers Could Have Jihadi Connections
San Bernardino Killers Could Have Jihadi Connections
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San Bernardino shooting live updates: Victims' stories take shape
San Bernardino shooting live updates: Victims' stories take shape
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NBC News:
At Least 14 Dead in California Shooting, Two Suspects Killed
At Least 14 Dead in California Shooting, Two Suspects Killed
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Alan Yuhas / Guardian:
San Bernardino shooting: police detail gun battle as injured toll rises - live
San Bernardino shooting: police detail gun battle as injured toll rises - live
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Allah isn't fixing this [With Comment by John]
Allah isn't fixing this [With Comment by John]
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A.B. Stoddard / The Hill:
Christie can't lose — Nine months ago a savvy political junkie told me Chris Christie would soon announce a presidential campaign, simply because he had to. — Making our way through the nation's capital, my cab driver made his case: running was the only way for the New Jersey governor to clean up his image and come out ahead.
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
A coming GOP bloodbath — The Republican front-runner in the presidential campaign, who does more to define the GOP brand than any politician in America, has made the following destructive contributions to Republican politics during his White House bid: — He insulted heroic POWs by saying …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump Still Leads in NH but Christie Rising; Clinton/Sanders Closely Matched
Trump Still Leads in NH but Christie Rising; Clinton/Sanders Closely Matched
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Behind McConnell's campaign to win over Cruz — Mitch McConnell is close to pulling off a feat that at first seemed impossible: Coax Ted Cruz and antagonistic conservative groups to back his strategy to repeal Obamacare. — For weeks, Cruz, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate and chief McConnell nemesis …
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Sarah Ferris / The Hill:
Senate Dems to force votes on gun control — Senate Democrats are planning to offer a series of gun control amendments during the Thursday vote-a-rama on the chamber's highly anticipated budget bill. — A group, led by the chamber's No. 2 Democrat Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Dems ready gun amendments to pressure GOP
Dems ready gun amendments to pressure GOP
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
CNN Will Not Give $5 Million To Charity To Get Donald Trump On Debates — CNN will not give $5 million to charity to ensure Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump appears on the Republican debate set to air on the Time Warner-owned cable-news outlet on December 15, the network's top executive said Thursday.
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Associated Press:
AP CONVERSATION: TRUMP CALLS MIDEAST PEACE ‘TOUGHEST DEAL’
AP CONVERSATION: TRUMP CALLS MIDEAST PEACE ‘TOUGHEST DEAL’
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Carson stumbles on Hamas, says something more like hummus
Carson stumbles on Hamas, says something more like hummus
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Dan Lamothe / Washington Post:
In historic decision, Pentagon chief opens all jobs in combat units to women — Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said Thursday that he is opening all jobs in in combat units to women, a landmark decision that ends a three-year period of research with a number of firsts for female service members …
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Austin Wright / Politico:
Carter opens all military combat jobs to women
Carter opens all military combat jobs to women
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Wall Street Journal:
Ted Cruz's Syria ‘Dog’ — The Texan offers his own version of leading from behind in the Mideast. — Ted Cruz's bid for the GOP's presidential nomination has always rested on the proposition that he is the only “real Republican” in the race. So why is the junior Senator from Texas advocating …
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Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
PMO confirms Trump to visit by end of month, will meet Netanyahu
PMO confirms Trump to visit by end of month, will meet Netanyahu
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Reid J. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
At Jewish GOP Group, Lindsey Graham Harangues White House Rivals
At Jewish GOP Group, Lindsey Graham Harangues White House Rivals
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Chicago Tribune:
Mayor Emanuel, release the video of the Ronald Johnson police shooting — Ronald Johnson, 25, was shot to death by a police officer who was responding to a call of shots fired near the 5300 block of South Martin Luther King Drive in the Washington Park neighborhood on Oct. 12, 2014.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Chicanery in Chicago — This week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel …
Chicanery in Chicago — This week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel …
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Lauren French / Politico:
Ryan hopes his agenda can buoy GOP at the polls — Paul Ryan unveiled Thursday a new agenda aimed at lifting Republicans above the rancor that has marred the party for years while bolstering the GOP's chances of winning back the White House. — The new House speaker said Republicans cannot …
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Daniel Henninger / Wall Street Journal:
America at Obama's End
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump relents after withholding medical records — Donald Trump says he is in good health, but voters up to now have had to take his word for it. — Trump once said that all presidential candidates should release their medical records. But so far in the 2016 race, he had declined to release his …
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