| Muslim groups raise $134K for San Bernardino shooting victims, families Posted: 09 Dec 2015 11:28 AM PST Muslim-Americans have launched a successful campaign to help the families of victims and survivors of the San Bernardino shooting. |
| California shooters discussed martyrdom even before meeting: FBI Posted: 09 Dec 2015 09:04 AM PST  The couple who massacred 14 people at a California holiday party were discussing martyrdom online before they met in person and married last year, FBI Director James Comey said on Wednesday. Comey, testifying at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said there was yet no evidence that the marriage of Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, who was born in the United States to Pakistani immigrants, and Tashfeen Malik, 29, who was born in Pakistan and lived most of her life in Saudi Arabia, was arranged by a militant group. "They were actually radicalized before they started ... dating each other online, and as early as the end of 2013 they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged," Comey said.
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| California shooter may have considered an attack in 2011: source Posted: 09 Dec 2015 08:48 AM PST  Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the shooters who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, last week may have contemplated an attack on a U.S. target as early as 2011 or 2012, a U.S. government source familiar with the investigation said on Wednesday. Investigators are also looking into whether Farook had asked his neighbor, Enrique Marquez, to purchase guns on his behalf in 2011 and 2012 to avoid calling attention to himself, the source said. The source said the probe is also examining whether there were irregularities in how Farook's wife and co-shooter Tashfeen Malik obtained her visa to enter the United States as his fiancée.
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| Chicago mayor apologizes for 2014 shooting, vows reforms Posted: 09 Dec 2015 08:31 AM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel apologized for the 2014 shooting of a black teenager Wednesday during a special City Council meeting that he called to discuss a police abuse scandal at the center of the biggest crisis of his administration, and promised "complete and total" reform to restore trust in the police.
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| Chicago Mayor Emanuel apologizes for police problems, promises reform Posted: 09 Dec 2015 08:16 AM PST  In an emotional speech with his voice occasionally breaking, the mayor of the nation's third-largest city reiterated reform steps he has already promised. Emanuel's speech comes after two weeks of protests in Chicago following the release of a 2014 police squad car dashboard video showing police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times.
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| College racial admission policies tested before U.S. top court Posted: 09 Dec 2015 07:43 AM PST  The U.S. Supreme Court was hearing arguments on Wednesday over race-based admissions at the University of Texas in a highly charged dispute that could reverberate nationwide. The justices, in the oral arguments held on Wednesday morning, revisited the case of Abigail Fisher, a 25-year-old white woman rejected for admission by the flagship campus in Austin in 2008. Affirmative action refers to policies under which minorities historically subject to discrimination are given certain preferences to enhance campus diversity.
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| Angela Merkel named Time's Person of the Year Posted: 09 Dec 2015 06:35 AM PST  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been named Time's Person of the Year, praised Wednesday by the magazine for her leadership on everything from Syrian refugees to the Greek debt crisis. Time also cited ...
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| Colorado prosecutors set to charge accused Planned Parenthood shooter Posted: 09 Dec 2015 05:30 AM PST  The man accused of shooting three people to death and wounding nine others at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado was due in court on Wednesday to face formal charges expected to include multiple counts of first-degree murder. Robert Lewis Dear, 57, has been held without bond since surrendering to police at the end of a bloody five-hour siege on Nov. 27 that authorities said began when he opened fire with a rifle in front of the clinic, then stormed inside. In addition to multiple counts of murder and attempted murder, Dear is expected to face a host of other charges, including assault and firearms offenses stemming from the shooting spree in Colorado Springs.
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| Defense to address jury in ex-N.Y. Senate leader's extortion trial Posted: 09 Dec 2015 04:25 AM PST  Lawyers for former New York state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos have one last chance on Wednesday to convince a U.S. jury that he did not abuse his office to carry out a brazen extortion scheme with his son. Dean Skelos' trial is nearing an end days after his counterpart in the state Assembly, former Speaker Sheldon Silver, was convicted of bribery and extortion schemes that netted him millions of dollars.
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| Lynch says no indication California shooting couple were part of wider cell Posted: 09 Dec 2015 02:49 AM PST  The United States has no indication that a couple who killed 14 people in California were part of a wider cell which planned more attacks, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Wednesday. Tashfeen Malik, 29, and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, stormed a gathering of his work colleagues in San Bernardino, California, last Wednesday, opening fire with assault-style rifles.
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| Third Paris Bataclan attacker visited Syria: judicial source Posted: 09 Dec 2015 01:13 AM PST  A third man who attacked the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Nov. 13 has been identified as a 23-year-old from Strasbourg who went to Syria with a group of other young people at the end of 2013, a judicial source and other officials said on Wednesday. The sources named the attacker, who died in the assault, as Foued Mohamed-Aggad. Prime Minister Manuel Valls confirmed on BFMTV that the man had finally been identified.
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| Shooting brings troubled San Bernardino an unwelcome new distinction Posted: 09 Dec 2015 12:40 AM PST  The list of challenges confronting this blue-collar Southern California enclave was already long: a devastating municipal bankruptcy, high unemployment, foreclosures, homelessness, crime - even a nagging yellow smog that often hung over the flat desert community. Then came last week's deadly rampage by two heavily armed shooters, which took the lives of 14 people and brought the city an even less welcome distinction: site of the United States' latest "terrorist attack," according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and its worst gun violence in three years. He noted the contrast between San Bernardino and Paris, site of deadly attacks last month that mobilized an outpouring of support across the world, could not be more stark.
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| Georgia executes man for 1992 killing over forged checks Posted: 08 Dec 2015 10:34 PM PST  ATLANTA (Reuters) - Georgia on Wednesday executed a man convicted in the 1992 murder of a family friend after a dispute over money, state officials said.
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| Two Afghan trainees reported missing from Georgia Air Force base Posted: 08 Dec 2015 10:02 PM PST The two Afghan air force students failed to show up for duty on Monday at their regular maintenance training at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia, an Air Force spokesman said in a statement. In January, a soldier in the Afghanistan army who went missing during a training exercise at a U.S. military base in Massachusetts was granted asylum by the United States. The missing Afghan nationals in Georgia are assigned to the 81st Fighter Squadron, which was re-activated in January and charged with training Afghan airmen, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. |
| Many Americans struggling to keep up with sky high rents: study Posted: 08 Dec 2015 09:31 PM PST Record numbers of U.S. renter households are spending more than 30 percent of their income, and in many cases more than half their income, on housing costs, according to a study published on Wednesday. In its biennial report on rental housing, the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies said both lower and moderate income households were overburdened by higher rents, which have been rising 3.5 percent annually after accounting for inflation. The lingering effects of the housing market collapse, which have seen the homeownership rate falling to levels last seen in 1965, and better employment prospects for Millennials, have fanned a rental market boom. |
| Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice faces disciplinary hearing over emails Posted: 08 Dec 2015 08:58 PM PST A Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice accused of using state computers to exchange scores of sexually and racially offensive emails with other judges, prosecutors and lawyers over six years was ordered on Tuesday to face a disciplinary hearing. Justice J. Michael Eakin, 66, a Republican elected in 2001, could face a reprimand, suspension, or removal from the bench if found guilty, the state Judicial Conduct Board said in a statement. Eakin's lawyer, William Costopoulos, could not be reached for comment. |
| The North Face founder, Douglas Tompkins, dies in Chile kayak accident Posted: 08 Dec 2015 07:06 PM PST  U.S. environmentalist and businessman Douglas Tompkins, the founder of outdoor clothing and equipment company The North Face, died on Tuesday during a kayaking trip in Chile, local health officials said. Tompkins was on General Carrera Lake in Patagonia in southern Chile with a group of five others when his kayak flipped and he fell into the icy waters, the Aysen regional health service said in a statement. The service said he was admitted around 1:30 p.m. to the regional hospital in Coyhaique, some 1,140 miles (1,832 km) south of Santiago, but was pronounced dead of severe hypothermia hours later.
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| California shooters borrowed $28,000 before attack: source Posted: 08 Dec 2015 04:43 PM PST  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A married couple who killed 14 people in a California shooting rampage the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism borrowed about $28,000 from an online lender, a sum deposited into their bank account about two weeks before the attack, a source said on Tuesday. Disclosure of the unsecured loan the husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, took out from San Francisco-based Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending service, offered a new glimpse into the money trail under scrutiny by investigators of last week's mass shooting. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has described Farook, the U.S.-born son of Pakistani immigrants, and his Pakistani-born wife, Tashfeen Malik, 29, as a couple "radicalized" by Islamic extremist ideology.
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| U.S. conducting 'serious review' of alleged Iran missile test Posted: 08 Dec 2015 03:39 PM PST  By Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States is reviewing and seeking to confirm reports that Iran launched a ballistic missile last month in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said on Tuesday. "The U.S. is conducting a serious review of the reported incident," Power told reporters after a meeting of the Security Council on unrelated issues.
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| House tightens controls on visa-free travel to US Posted: 08 Dec 2015 03:23 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Driven by the Paris terror attacks, the House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to tighten controls on travel to the U.S. and require visas for anyone who's been in Iraq or Syria in the previous five years.
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