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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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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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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Lynch cautious on ISIL link to California attacks
Lynch cautious on ISIL link to California attacks
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Shooter's Mother Active In US Branch Of Pro-Caliphate Islamic Group
Shooter's Mother Active In US Branch Of Pro-Caliphate Islamic Group
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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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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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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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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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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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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Chris Christie warns Iowans against Trump
Chris Christie warns Iowans against Trump
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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump pumps siege mentality in Iowa
Trump pumps siege mentality in Iowa
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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 — Presidential candidates hit the Sunday morning talk show circuit to discuss the deadly mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., and the ideological divide on the topics of terrorism and gun control was in stark partisan relief.
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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.
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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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Texas GOP Votes Down Secession Proposal … State GOP leaders, in a predictable but closely watched vote, have defeated a proposal to ask Texas voters whether they favor secession. — In a voice vote Saturday afternoon, the State Republican Executive Committee rejected a measure …
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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.
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Melissa Gray / CNN:
3 stabbed at London tube station in terror attack, police say — (CNN)A man stabbed three people at an east London tube station Saturday before police subdued him with a stun gun and made an arrest, London's Metropolitan Police said. — Police said they were treating the stabbing at Leytonstone station as a terrorist incident.
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Alix Culbertson / Daily Express:
Machete ‘Syria revenge’ stabbing in London now treated as TERROR attack
Machete ‘Syria revenge’ stabbing in London now treated as TERROR attack
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