| After California massacre, Obama to pledge powerful attack on Islamic State Posted: 06 Dec 2015 12:52 PM PST  By Bill Trott and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will tell Americans on Sunday what the government is doing to keep them safe following the mass killing by a couple in California last week that is being investigated as an "act of terror," but no major shift in strategy was expected. In a rare Oval Office address at 8 p.m. EST (0100 GMT), Obama will lay out the security steps the United States has taken since Islamic State's Nov. 13 assaults in Paris that killed 130 people, as well as since the Sept. ...
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| U.S. state Delaware moves to apologize for its role in slavery Posted: 06 Dec 2015 12:36 PM PST "We must publicly and candidly acknowledge the lasting damage of past sins – damage that continues to reverberate more than 150 years after the abolition of slavery," Markell told worshippers at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilmington, Delaware, his office said. The ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially ended U.S. slavery on Dec. 6, 1865. Markell, a Democrat, unveiled a joint resolution on Sunday - which will be considered by the Democrat-controlled legislature in 2016 - to officially condemn and apologize for Delaware's role in slavery. |
| Investigators: Wife may have been driving force in rampage Posted: 06 Dec 2015 12:21 PM PST  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Investigators are looking into whether Tashfeen Malik radicalized her American-born husband and was the driving force in the San Bernardino massacre plot, two officials said Sunday.
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| Former President Jimmy Carter says cancer gone from brain Posted: 06 Dec 2015 11:19 AM PST  Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Sunday that his most recent MRI brain scan revealed no signs of cancer but that he would continue treatment. Carter, 91, started treatment in August for melanoma that had spread from his liver to his brain. In a brief written statement, Carter did not say when the latest scan was performed but confirmed it "did not reveal any signs of the original cancer spots nor any new ones." "I will continue to receive regular three-week immunotherapy treatments of pembrolizumab," said Carter, who served as president from 1977 to 1981.
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| Former President Jimmy Carter says cancer gone from brain Posted: 06 Dec 2015 11:04 AM PST By Colleen Jenkins (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Sunday that his most recent MRI brain scan revealed no signs of cancer but that he would continue treatment. Carter, 91, started treatment in August for melanoma that had spread from his liver to his brain. In a brief written statement, Carter did not say when the latest scan was performed but confirmed it "did not reveal any signs of the original cancer spots nor any new ones. ... |
| California shooters may have planned multiple attacks: government source Posted: 06 Dec 2015 10:18 AM PST  U.S. investigators are increasingly convinced the San Bernardino shooters may have been planning more attacks, given the quantity of weapons in their possession, a senior U.S. government source said on Sunday. Investigators were still uncertain about possible targets that may have been identified by Tashfeen Malik, 29, and her U.S.-born husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, the source said. The source also said investigators do not believe Enrique Marquez, the man suspected of providing weapons to the couple, is linked to terrorism but are still investigating.
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| Jimmy Carter says cancer gone: newspaper report Posted: 06 Dec 2015 09:47 AM PST "He said he got a scan this week and the cancer was gone," Jill Stuckey, a member of Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, told the newspaper by phone. Carter, 91, started treatment in August for melanoma that had spread from his liver to his brain. |
| Tashfeen Malik 'wild card' in San Bernardino shooting: U.S. lawmaker Posted: 06 Dec 2015 08:58 AM PST  Tashfeen Malik, the Pakistani woman involved in the California mass shooting last week, may have influenced her American husband toward violence, said Representative Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, on Sunday. Malik's relatives in Pakistan have said she appeared to have abandoned the family's moderate Islam and become more radicalized during years they spent in Saudi Arabia. Malik, 29, and her U.S.-born husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, stormed a gathering of civil servants in San Bernardino, California, on Wednesday, opening fire with assault rifles and killing 14 people.
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| Red Cross seeking permission to work in IS territory Posted: 06 Dec 2015 08:11 AM PST  The International Committee of the Red Cross has said it is trying to establish relations with the Islamic State group in hopes of delivering aid to the 10 million people living under its control. "Yes, we are of course looking at building a relationship" with IS, ICRC Director-General Yves Daccord told AFP in an interview. The comments were made ahead of an agency conference in Geneva, held every four years, which gathers some 2,000 ICRC employees and national Red Cross/Red Crescent staffers for talks on the challenges facing humanitarian workers in increasingly complex environments.
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| Baltimore officer's knowledge at heart of Freddie Gray trial Posted: 06 Dec 2015 04:25 AM PST  As the trial of Officer William Porter in the death of Freddie Gray goes into its first full week of testimony on Monday, prosecutors face a tough task. "The biggest doubt in the case comes down to what was going on in Officer Porter's head," said David Jaros, a University of Baltimore law professor. Porter, 26, is on trial in Baltimore City Circuit Court on charges that include involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault and misconduct.
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| Woman in deadly California rampage became fervently devout Posted: 05 Dec 2015 11:54 PM PST  SAN BERNARDINO, California (AP) — In the final few years of Tashfeen Malik's life, the people around the young woman saw her dress ever more conservatively and urge people ever more ardently to live a devout life.
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| Obama to make primetime address after California attack Posted: 05 Dec 2015 07:09 PM PST  President Barack Obama will make a rare primetime address to the nation Sunday laying out how he will keep Americans safe and defeat the Islamic State group, days after 14 people were shot dead in California. On Saturday, Obama declared that the United States "will not be terrorized," as the IS extremist group praised the couple behind Wednesday's mass shooting in San Bernardino as "soldiers" of its self-proclaimed caliphate. On Sunday at 8:00 pm (0100 GMT Monday) from the Oval Office, he will again look to reassure the American people in the wake of the attack, which the FBI is investigating as a possible act of terrorism.
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| U.S. rethinking strategy on fighting homegrown attacks: NYT Posted: 05 Dec 2015 06:36 PM PST  (Reuters) - U.S. officials, faced with an evolving threat of deadly attacks by homegrown extremists, are rethinking their strategy on battling domestic terror after Wednesday's assault that killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., the New York Times reported on Saturday. The United States should beef up airline security by increasing agents in overseas airports, bolster standards for visa waiver programs, and improve communications between officials and Muslim communities to help locate threats, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson told the Times. "We have moved to an entirely new phase in the global terrorist threat and in our homeland security efforts," Johnson told the newspaper in an interview.
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| Islamic State claims California mass killers as followers Posted: 05 Dec 2015 05:17 PM PST  By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Rory Carroll SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Islamic State said on Saturday that the married couple who killed 14 people in a mass shooting in Southern California were its followers, and FBI agents raided a home apparently belonging to a friend of the husband. Islamic State's claim came in an online audio broadcast three days after U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik, 29, opened fire with assault rifles on a holiday party for civil servants in San Bernardino, 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles.
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| Obama to address nation on San Bernardino shooting, terrorism Sunday Posted: 05 Dec 2015 04:28 PM PST  President Barack Obama will address the nation on Sunday evening to give an update on the investigation into the San Bernardino shooting that killed 14 and to discuss terrorism, the White House said on Saturday. The president will talk about the "broader threat of terrorism, including the nature of the threat, how it has evolved, and how we will defeat it," the White House said in a statement.
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