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Joseph Tanfani / Los Angeles Times:
San Bernardino shooting updates: Tashfeen Malik attended seminary in Pakistan; President Obama to address the nation — Key developments
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Rossella Tercatin / The Times of Israel:
San Bernardino shooter's dad: He was ‘obsessed’ with Israel — In interview with Italian paper, father Syed Farook says his son ‘supported the creation of the Islamic State’ — Syed Farook, father of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook, has described his son as negatively “obsessed” with Israel.
Shawna Thomas / NBC News:
AG Lynch: President Will Call On Congress to Take Action on Guns in San Bernardino Address — In an appearance on NBC's “Meet the Press,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch previewed the remarks President Barack Obama will make when he speaks to the country Sunday evening about the recent terrorist attack in San Bernardino.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Lynch cautious on ISIL link to California attacks
Lynch cautious on ISIL link to California attacks
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Yahoo Politics and The Hill
Tanya Somanader / Blog Daily Listings RSS:
President Obama Addresses the Nation on Keeping the American People Safe
President Obama Addresses the Nation on Keeping the American People Safe
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Washington Post, Common Dreams, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Gateway Pundit, The Week and Telegraph
New York Post:
Now even Obama has to admit San Bernardino was terrorism
Now even Obama has to admit San Bernardino was terrorism
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Washington Free Beacon
David Mark / CNN:
President Obama to address nation over terror threats
President Obama to address nation over terror threats
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Independent Journal and The Gateway Pundit
New York Times:
California Attack Has U.S. Rethinking Strategy on Homegrown Terror
California Attack Has U.S. Rethinking Strategy on Homegrown Terror
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Los Angeles Times, Politico, Outside the Beltway, Wall Street Journal, JustOneMinute and Fox News
Ted Bridis / Associated Press:
US can't access NSA phone records in California terror case
US can't access NSA phone records in California terror case
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RedState, Politico, Mediaite and Associated Press
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Carter: Cancer is gone — Former President Jimmy Carter said Sunday his cancer is gone. — Carter, 91, made the announcement near the beginning of the Sunday School class he was teaching at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, a close friend and fellow church member said.
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Jeremy Herb / Politico:
Trump: Islamic terrorism will get solved when Obama ‘gets the hell out’ — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says the country's “tremendous problem” with radical Islamic terrorism will get solved once President Barack Obama “gets the hell out” of office.
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Arit John / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Says Political Correctness Helped Enable California Attack — Ahead of President Barack Obama's Sunday night speech outlining his plan to fight terrorism, Republican presidential candidates called for more surveillance tools for the intelligence community, while frontrunner Donald Trump …
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Washington Post, Politico and Raw Story
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Trump: Terrorists' Family Members 'Know What's Happening' When They Attack
Trump: Terrorists' Family Members 'Know What's Happening' When They Attack
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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Rubio: No-fly list full of ‘everyday Americans’ — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says a majority of the people on the federal “no-fly list” do not belong there and therefore should not have their right to purchase firearms taken away. — “These are everyday Americans that have nothing to do with terrorism …
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Andrew Husband / Mediaite:
Hillary Clinton: I Don't Say ‘Radical Islam’ Because It 'Doesn't Do Justice' to Good Muslims — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton really doesn't like using the term “radical Islam.” — This Week host George Stephanopoulos called out the former U.S. Secretary of State …
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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo Politics:
Trump, Clinton talk terror and gun control in wake of San Bernardino attack
Trump, Clinton talk terror and gun control in wake of San Bernardino attack
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Bloomberg Business, Liberaland and Politico
Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Chris Christie warns Iowans against Trump — IOWA FALLS — Add Chris Christie to the list of Republicans suddenly ready to engage Donald Trump. — The New Jersey governor, whose 2016 bid is getting fresh consideration by voters increasingly concerned about terrorism, spent Saturday warning Iowans against …
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump pumps siege mentality in Iowa
Trump pumps siege mentality in Iowa
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New York Daily News:
Stasi: San Bernardino killers were radical, ISIS-loving monsters — but one of their victims was just as bigoted — They were two hate-filled, bigoted municipal employees interacting in one department. Now 13 innocent people are dead in unspeakable carnage.
Caitlin Yilek / The Hill:
Nevada lawmaker posts Christmas card showing family armed with guns — A Republican assemblywoman in Nevada this week shared her 2015 Christmas card on Facebook — which shows family members outfitted with a gun, including her young grandson. — “It's up to Americans to protect America …
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Jessica Stern / New York Times:
How Terror Hardens Us — WE Americans are living through a dread-inducing age — of school shootings and suicide bombers, of racist terror and mass murder, of enemies who broadcast terrifying pronouncements against us. We are not used to living with such bewildering uncertainty.
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Hysteria About Refugees, but Blindness on Guns — LESBOS, Greece — For three weeks American politicians have been fulminating about the peril posed by Syrian refugees, even though in the last dozen years no refugee in America has killed a single person in a terror attack.
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Quayle glad Bush didn't tap Trump for VP — Dan Quayle says he's glad President George H.W. Bush picked him to be his vice president instead of Donald Trump. — Quayle discussed how Trump let Bush's camp know that he was interested in becoming the vice president in the 1988 campaign …