2015年12月4日星期五

Yahoo! News: Terrorism

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Terrorism


FBI investigating California massacre as 'act of terrorism'

Posted: 04 Dec 2015 02:44 PM PST

FBI: San Bernardino shooting investigated as act of terrorismSan Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance to an ISIS leader, the agency says.


Oklahoma prisons boss resigns amid execution investigation

Posted: 04 Dec 2015 03:29 PM PST

FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2015, file photo, Oklahoma Department of Corrections Director Robert Patton gives a statement to reporters in the media center at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. Patton's tenure at the Department of Corrections has been marred by problems with three scheduled executions and now a multi county grand jury into those complications. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The head of Oklahoma's prison system, who presided over two botched lethal injections and a third that was called off because the wrong drug was delivered, announced his resignation Friday amid an investigation into what went wrong with the executions.


Trump picked stock fraud felon as senior adviser

Posted: 04 Dec 2015 02:41 PM PST

Trump picked stock fraud felon as senior adviserDonald Trump knew a man he named as a senior business adviser in 2010 had been convicted in a major Mafia-linked stock fraud scheme, according to Associated Press interviews and a review of court records. ...


Mosque members on San Bernardino shooter: ‘He was living the American dream’

Posted: 04 Dec 2015 09:02 AM PST

California ShootingsMembers of the California mosques where San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook prayed were shocked to learn of his involvement in the massacre at Inland Regional Center.


Exclusive: Investigators piece together portrait of Pakistani woman in shooting massacre

Posted: 04 Dec 2015 02:29 PM PST

Weapons confiscated from last Wednesday's attack in San Bernardino, CaliforniaTashfeen Malik's path to accused mass killer in California began in a small city on the Indus River in Pakistan's Punjab province. It was from here, when she was a toddler, that she moved with her father Gulzar 25 years ago to Saudi Arabia, where he became more deeply religious, more conservative and more hardline, according to a family member. A picture slowly emerged on Friday of the role and possible motivations of 27-year-old Malik in this week's killing of 14 people in California, including her apparent pledge of allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State militant group, according to U.S. officials.


Exclusive: Most Americans see Muslims like any other group after California shooting - poll

Posted: 04 Dec 2015 04:08 PM PST

Muslim students pray before at a rally against Islamophobia at San Diego State UniversityBy Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Just days after two Muslims were accused of gunning down 14 people in California, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows 51 percent of Americans view Muslims living in the United States the same as any other community, while only 14.6 percent are generally fearful. In the first poll on views of Muslim Americans taken in the aftermath of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks, much of the division is partisan. Among Democrats, 60 percent said they view Muslims like any other community, compared with only 30 percent of Republicans.


New York City mayor urges city pension funds to divest gun stocks

Posted: 04 Dec 2015 01:49 PM PST

New York Mayor De Blasio attends a news conference about the two NYPD police officers who were fatally shot in the Brooklyn borough of New YorkNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio urged the city's pension funds on Friday to divest their holdings in stocks of gun makers after this week's mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. Two of the funds in the city's $155 billion pension system dropped their holdings in gun manufacturers such as Smith & Wesson Holding Corp and Sturm Ruger & Co Inc after the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012.


Senate OKs GOP bill unraveling Obamacare

Posted: 03 Dec 2015 05:49 PM PST

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks from the chamber as Republicans pushed legislation toward Senate approval that would demolish President Barack Obama's signature health care law and halt Planned Parenthood's federal money, setting up a veto fight the GOP knows it will lose but thinks will delight conservative voters in next year's elections, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015. McConnell said Thursday that the Affordable Care Act is "punctuated with hopelessness," as he blamed it for rising medical costs and problems encountered by Kentuckians. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — With Republicans openly welcoming a preordained veto, the Senate on Thursday approved legislation aimed at crippling two of their favorite targets: President Barack Obama's health care law and Planned Parenthood.


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