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Yahoo! News: Terrorism


Live updates: Mass shooting in California

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 03:58 PM PST

Shooting in San BernardinoAt least 14 people are dead and another 14 injured at a center in San Bernardino, officials say.


Donald Trump on ISIS: ‘You have to take out their families’

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Donald Trump's plan to defeat the Islamic State involves destroying them — and their families.


San Bernardino shooting: What we know about the Inland Regional Center for persons with disabilities

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 02:34 PM PST

People are evacuated by law enforcement agencies from the Inland Regional Center the scene of a shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. Police in San Bernardino, California, were responding to reports of an active shooter at a social services facility. There were reports of multiple victims, Lt. Rich Lawhead said Wednesday. (Doug Saunders/Los Angeles News Group via AP)Gunmen opened fire at the Inland Regional Center for persons with developmental disabilities in California on Wednesday.


Millions at stake, the ‘Adelson primary’ is neck and neck

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It is the biggest financial prize in Republican presidential politics: the endorsement of multibillionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.


Statue of Liberty inspired by Arab woman, researchers say

Posted: 01 Dec 2015 07:03 PM PST

The Statue of Liberty in New York was inspired by a project representing an Arab woman guarding the Suez Canal, researchers claimThe Statue of Liberty, a symbol of democracy and freedom that has greeted countless immigrants to US shores, was inspired by a project representing an Arab woman guarding the Suez Canal, researchers said. The recent findings are especially startling for some in the United States amid a heated debate over the arrival of refugees from war-scarred Syria and other Muslim majority countries. French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, who traveled to Egypt in 1855-1856, developed there a "passion for large-scale public monuments and colossal sculptures," said the US National Park Service, which guards the Statue of Liberty in New York.


When climate negotiations proceed just like an 'action movie'

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 01:48 PM PST

In this Nov. 17, 2015 photo, 42- year-old Salma Begum, who lost her home to the river, holds a bunch of water lilies which she will use to prepare a meal for her family in the island district of Bhola, where the Meghna River spills into the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. Bangladesh is considered one of the world's most vulnerable countries to climate change. (AP Photo/Shahria Sharmin)With world leaders back home, it's time for the hardcore climate negotiators to work on the more mundane guts of a deal and they are being told to quicken the pace at it. Generally climate negotiations ...


Rio's Olympic waterways badly polluted, even far offshore, tests show

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 02:09 PM PST

FILE - In this Dec 16, 2011 file photo, Germany's Erik Heil and Thomas Ploessel compete in the men's 49er skiff gold fleet 1 race 10 at the Sailing Championships in Perth, Australia. Heil had to be treated at a Berlin hospital for MRSA, a flesh-eating bacteria, shortly after sailing in an Olympic test event in August at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where tests by The Associated Press have found high contamination in waters to be used in the 2016 Olympics. (AP Photo/Theron Kirkman, File)RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic sailor Erik Heil floated a novel idea to protect himself from the sewage-infested waters he and other athletes will compete in during next year's games: He'd wear plastic overalls and peel them off when he was safely past the contaminated waters nearest shore.


Shooting rampage in California leaves 14 dead, 17 wounded

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 04:48 PM PST

Still from video shows rescue crews tending to the injured in the intersection outside the Inland Regional Center in San BernardinoBy Tim Reid and Dan Whitcomb SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on a holiday party on Wednesday at a social services agency in San Bernardino, California, killing 14 people and wounding 17 others, then fled the scene, triggering an intense manhunt and a shootoutout with police, authorities said. One suspect was struck by gunfire and one officer was injured, San Bernardino police spokeswoman Sergeant Vicki Cervantes told reporters, adding that a second suspect might still be "outstanding." She did not know the condition of the struck suspect but said the officer's injuries were not considered to be life-threatening. San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said in a televised news briefing earlier that as many as three suspects were believed to have made their getaway in a dark-colored sport utility vehicle.


Chicago police force needs a cultural change - mayor

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 01:59 PM PST

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel listens to remarks from an attendee at a town hall meeting on the city budget in ChicagoChicago's 12,000-member police force, one of the biggest in the country and one of the most prone to use lethal force, needs a cultural change that will take time, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Wednesday in an interview with Politico. Emanuel fired Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Tuesday and has launched a search for a replacement, following protests over the police killing of Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old African-American teenager, which was caught on video. Jason Van Dyke, the white police officer who shot McDonald on Oct. 20, 2014, has been charged with murder and is out on bail.


Baltimore officer was negligent in black man's death: prosecutor

Posted: 02 Dec 2015 12:45 PM PST

Protestors gather outside of the courthouse on the first day of jury selection for Baltimore Police Officer William Porter who is charged in connection with the death of Freddie Gray in BaltimoreGray's death in April triggered rioting, arson and protests in the largely black city and fueled a national debate over police tactics and relations with minorities. Gray, 25, died a week after he was taken into custody on April 12 for fleeing an officer and possessing a knife. Chief Deputy State's Attorney Michael Schatzow said Porter was present at five of the six stops the van made the day Gray was arrested, shackled and handcuffed.


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