Yahoo! News: Terrorism

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• Obama targets weaknesses in battle with Islamic State
• Pentagon: U.S. base shipped live anthrax to 19 states plus D.C.
• Second psychiatrist: Colorado cinema gunman was sane
• Yemeni families of drone strike victims file lawsuit against U.S.
• G-7 set far-off goal to move away from fossil fuels
• Live updates from Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference
• Man pleads guilty to plotting suicide bomb attack on Kansas airport

Obama targets weaknesses in battle with Islamic State Posted: 08 Jun 2015 02:38 PM PDT The president says the U.S. lacks a "complete strategy" for training Iraqi forces to fight the Islamic State.

Pentagon: U.S. base shipped live anthrax to 19 states plus D.C. Posted: 08 Jun 2015 01:47 PM PDT The number of labs that received live anthrax samples from a U.S. military base in Utah has risen to 66 in 19 states, Washington and three foreign countries, the Pentagon said on Monday. Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Defense Department spokesman, said 31 people were receiving precautionary treatment for exposure to live anthrax, unchanged since the Pentagon's last update on the incident. Warren said one new state, Pennsylvania, had been added to the list of locations where live anthrax had been sent.

Second psychiatrist: Colorado cinema gunman was sane Posted: 08 Jun 2015 03:28 PM PDT By Keith Coffman CENTENNIAL, Colo. (Reuters) - A second court-appointed psychiatrist has concluded that Colorado movie theater gunman James Holmes was sane when he fatally shot 12 moviegoers and wounded dozens more in 2012, jurors in his capital murder trial heard on Monday. Psychiatrist Jeffrey Metzner testified that after interviewing Holmes for more than 25 hours he determined that the onetime neuroscience graduate student met the criteria for sanity under Colorado law. "Despite having a mental disability or defect ... Mr. Holmes had the capacity to tell the difference between right and wrong," Metzner said.

Yemeni families of drone strike victims file lawsuit against U.S. Posted: 08 Jun 2015 11:01 AM PDT The families of two men killed in a 2012 U.S. drone strike filed a suit in Washington seeking greater accountability for mistakes made during anti-terrorism operations.

G-7 set far-off goal to move away from fossil fuels Posted: 08 Jun 2015 12:58 PM PDT ELMAU, Germany (AP) — The world should move away from using fossil fuels by the end of this century, G-7 leaders said Monday, setting an ambitious but distant goal ahead of a global conference on climate change this year.

Live updates from Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference Posted: 08 Jun 2015 10:13 AM PDT Yahoo Tech's David Pogue, Alyssa Bereznak, and Dan Tynan are on hand to give you all the news as it happens, along with incisive and occasionally snarky commentary.

Man pleads guilty to plotting suicide bomb attack on Kansas airport Posted: 08 Jun 2015 01:16 PM PDT Terry Loewen, 59, was arrested trying to enter the tarmac at the airport with what he believed was a vehicle loaded with explosives, with a plan to trigger the device next to a terminal and die in the blast, according to a criminal complaint. U.S. District Judge Monti Belot set sentencing for Aug. 31.

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