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Barack Obama

Obama: US will defeat terror threat’s new phase

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare Oval Office address, President Barack Obama vowed Sunday night the U.S. will overcome a new phase of the terror threat that seeks to "poison the minds" of people here and around the world, as he sought to reassure Americans shaken by recent

crime

FBI shifts focus to terrorism in California massacre

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The FBI announced Friday that it is investigating the mass shooting at a Southern California office party as an act of terrorism, but the agency's director said there is no indication that the slain husband and wife who killed 14 and wounded more than

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TV viewers given eerie look inside California shooters’ home

REDLANDS, Calif. (AP) — The kitchen had pots on the stove, dirty dishes in the sink and a half-eaten pita sandwich. In a bedroom, there were boxes of diapers next to a crib with mussed sheets and a desk with photo identification of Syed Farook. Viewers around the world got an

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AP Source: Woman in shooting pledged allegiance to ISIS

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The woman who helped her husband kill 14 people at a holiday banquet for his county co-workers pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and its leader on Facebook using an alias, then deleted the messages before the attack, a U.S. law enforcement official said

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Motive in California attack remains elusive

WASHINGTON (AP) — Why did they do it? The California rampage that left 14 dead shows the motives behind mass violence can be complex and difficult to determine. The careful planning, multiple shooters and military-style weapons might seem to match up with recent terror attacks. But other circumstances — killing people known

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Investigators search for motive in California mass shooting

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — One moment, Syed Rizwan Farook was sitting at a table with colleagues at a holiday gathering for county health employees. Then suddenly he disappeared, leaving his coat on his chair. The next time his co-workers saw him, he was dressed in battle gear and wielding an

Russia

UK lawmakers approve airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria

LONDON (AP) — British lawmakers voted by a wide margin Wednesday to join the international campaign of airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria, after Prime Minister David Cameron asserted that bombing the "medieval monsters" in their heartland would make Britain safer. The 397-223 vote in the House

Barack Obama

To defeat terrorism, develop American energy

President Obama has been mocked, and appropriately so, for his ludicrous comment that the climate change summit in Paris will be a "powerful rebuke" to the terrorists. No. This summit is a powerful rebuke to common sense.