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San Bernardino shooting: Attacker pledged allegiance to ISIS, officials say — (CNN)[Breaking news update at 10:24 a.m. ET] — As the San Bernardino attack was happening, investigators believe the female shooter, Tashfeen Malik, posted on Facebook, pledging allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi …
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
Wife in San Bernardino Attack Pledged ISIS Allegiance, Officials Say — WASHINGTON — The woman who helped carry out the shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., on Wednesday had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in a Facebook posting, according to federal law enforcement officials.
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CBS News:
San Bernardino suspect's sister breaks her silence — As investigators sort through evidence picked up at the San Bernardino shooting suspects' Redlands home, family members say they are in disbelief. — “I can never imagine my brother or my sister-in-law doing something like this.
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Dexter Thomas / Los Angeles Times:
Rampage killers led secret life, hiding plans and weapons — A DMV handout photo of Syed Rizwan Farook, whom authorities have identified as one of two shooters who killed 14 and wounded 21 at a workplace holiday party in San Bernardino. — Early Wednesday morning, Syed Rizwan Farook asked …
Daily Mail:
'It doesn't seem plausible to us': Family of US Muslim who killed 14 says they don't believe official account of the massacre and even suggest the Sandy Hook slaying didn't take place — Chesley: ‘There were a lot of questions drawn with Sandy Hook and whether or not that was a real incident or not’
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Jae C. Hong / NBC News:
Massacre Wife Pledged Allegiance to ISIS Leader: Sources — LOCAL NEWS — FEATURED — Trying to Seal the Deal: Ted Cruz Hits the Road — Watch Packers' Rodgers Hit Rodgers for Epic Hail Mary — Communist ‘Cult Leader’ Brainwashed Trio Into Slavery — Gene Editing: Group Says Do It, But Carefully
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Brian Ries / Mashable:
Journalists storm San Bernardino shooters' apartment after landlord pries open door — In a surreal scene, a swarm of local and national media entered the apartment where Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik lived after the landlord tore off a piece of plywood that was blocking the door.
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The First Amendment Needs Your Prayers — Jumping on anyone who publicly expressed a religious feeling after the San Bernardino massacre. Where are we heading? — What gets you about what happened in San Bernardino is the shattering sameness of it. Once and not so long ago such atrocities …
The Times of Israel:
Messianic Jewish victim of California attack had argued with shooter about Islam — Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, one of 14 fatalities, had heated debate with co-worker Syed Rizwan Farook two weeks before San Bernardino rampage — One of the victims of the San Bernardino shooting was identified …
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Awr Hawkins / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE-Ted Cruz Reacts to San Bernardino: Now, More Than Ever, Americans Must Be Armed
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Jacob Sullum / Hit & Run:
How Background Checks and an ‘Assault Weapon’ Ban Failed in San Bernardino
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Caleb Howe / RedState:
CNN Asks Slain San Bernardino Man's Widow If He Was Asking For It
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NBC News:
San Bernardino Shooter Was ‘Bad Person,’ Not Radical: Brother-in-Law
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Chris Cox / USA Today:
No, Mr. President, the NRA is not to blame: Chris Cox
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Andrea Noble / Washington Times:
San Bernardino killers erased digital presence day before the attacks
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Los Angeles Times:
California congresswoman won't stand for moment of silence
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New York Daily News:
Making mass murder easy
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Fox News:
Investigators probe whether wife radicalized husband before San Bernardino massacre
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CBS Los Angeles:
Friend Of San Bernardino Shooting Victim Recalls Heated Conversation About Islam
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Officials: Syed Farook watched Islamic State propaganda videos
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Eli Saslow / Washington Post:
'Where's Syed?': How the San Bernardino shooting unfolded
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Pierre Thomas / ABC News:
San Bernardino Shooters Tried to Destroy Phones, Hard Drives, Sources Say
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Los Angeles Times:
San Bernardino shooting prompts calls for visa restrictions
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Mark Follman / New York Times:
How Many Mass Shootings Are There, Really?
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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
GOP candidates double down on guns after San Bernardino
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CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll: Trump alone at the top again — (CNN)Donald Trump is once again alone at the top of the Republican field, according to the latest CNN/ORC Poll, with 36% of registered Republicans and Republican-leaning independents behind him, while his nearest competitor trails by 20 points.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
No, Donald Trump Won't Win — A little while ago I went rug shopping. Four rugs were laid out on the floor and among them was one with a pink motif that was dazzlingly beautiful. It was complex and sophisticated. If you had asked me at that moment which rug I wanted, I would have said the pink one.
New York Times:
Tough Talk and a Cowardly Vote on Terrorism — Investigators now believe that what initially seemed a workplace shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., was a well-planned attack by a married couple with at least some contact with Islamic extremists. — The evolving situation has forced Republican leaders …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Donald Trump opens ‘yuge’ lead over GOP field in CNN/ORC national poll
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James Barrett / Daily Wire:
The day after a horrific shooting spree by a “radicalized” Muslim man and his partner in San Bernardino, California, Attorney General Loretta Lynch pledged to a group of Muslim activists that she would take aggressive action against anyone who used “anti-Muslim rhetoric” that “edges toward violence.”
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John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Loretta Lynch: “Actions Predicated On Violent Talk” Toward Muslims Will Be Prosecuted — WASHINGTON — Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Thursday warned that the Justice Department could take aggressive action against people whose anti-Muslim rhetoric “edges towards violence” …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Lynch warns against anti-Muslim backlash
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republicans' Climate Change Denial Denial — Future historians — if there are any future historians — will almost surely say that the most important thing happening in the world during December 2015 was the climate talks in Paris. True, nothing agreed to in Paris will be enough, by itself, to solve the problem of global warming.
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Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times:
Scott Weiland, frontman for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, dies at 48 — Scott Weiland at KROQ's Weenie Roast at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine in June 2001. — Scott Weiland, the charismatic rock vocalist who first gained fame with 1990s rock band Stone Temple Pilots, has died, according to his wife.
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Scott Weiland — Found Dead on Tour Bus
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate approves bill repealing much of ObamaCare — The Senate on Thursday passed legislation repealing the core pillars of ObamaCare, taking a major step toward sending such a bill to the president's desk for the first time. — Republicans hailed it as a political messaging victory …
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Chris Christie: ‘Iran is a Greater Threat Than ISIS’ — New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the semi-resurgent candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, came to Washington last week to address members of the Council on Foreign Relations (the organization known, at least to Senator Ted Cruz, as the “pit of vipers").
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