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| House tightens controls on visa-free travel to U.S. Posted: 08 Dec 2015 02:54 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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| U.S. conducting 'serious review' of alleged Iran missile test Posted: 08 Dec 2015 02:40 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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| A photojournalist on frontlines of refugee crisis Posted: 07 Dec 2015 11:16 PM PST  This fall, without an assignment, photojournalist Paula Bronstein packed her gear and headed for Lesbos, the Greek island that, in some places, is as close as five miles from the Turkish coast. In 2015 so far, 751,873 migrants — mostly from Syria but also Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and other war-torn countries — have made their way through Turkey to Greece by sea, often crammed intounstable inflatable dinghies. By the time Bronstein arrived in late October, winter weather was already setting in, making the short boat ride more dangerous and, in some cases, deadly.
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| FBI looking into $28,500 deposit in California shooters' account: source Posted: 08 Dec 2015 12:08 PM PST  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Syed Rizwan Farook recently took out a $28,500 loan from an online lender, a source said on Tuesday, before he and his wife killed 14 of his co-workers at a holiday party in San Bernardino, California. Authorities have said Farook, 28, and wife Tashfeen Malik, 29, were radicalized Muslims. While investigations into such attacks often focus on how they were financed, U.S. government officials said the Federal Bureau of Investigation's examination of the couple's finances has not linked them with any foreign group.
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| Eagles of Death Metal members revisit Paris attack site Posted: 08 Dec 2015 07:27 AM PST  PARIS (AP) — Members of the California rock band Eagles of Death Metal on Tuesday revisited the ravaged Paris theater where they survived a massacre by Islamic extremist suicide bombers.
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| Washington, Baghdad on different pages in fight against IS Posted: 08 Dec 2015 09:14 AM PST  BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of political spats in Baghdad over the past week surrounding foreign forces on Iraqi soil have exposed the increasing weakness of Iraq's prime minister and a disconnect between Washington and Baghdad in the fight against the Islamic State group.
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| California shooters borrowed $28,000 before attack: source Posted: 08 Dec 2015 04:23 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. |
| Justices skeptical of Texas 'one person, one vote' challenge Posted: 08 Dec 2015 12:34 PM PST  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supreme Court justices appeared reluctant on Tuesday to endorse a conservative challenge to the way Texas draws state legislative districts in a case that could shrink the political clout of Hispanics and boost the power of rural voters. It was not clear after an hour of oral arguments how the nine justices would rule in a dispute that questions a process that all 50 states employ to create electoral districts: using an area's total population as opposed to just eligible voters. Two Texas voters recruited by a conservative legal activist group contend that the process Texas uses to draw electoral districts violates a long-established legal principle of "one person, one vote" endorsed by the Supreme Court in the 1960s.
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| The brothers Farook: one a decorated veteran, the other a killer Posted: 07 Dec 2015 10:30 PM PST  Syed Raheel Farook and his younger brother Syed Rizwan Farook grew up in the same house, attended the same high school two years apart and, as teenagers, often socialized in the same groups. In court filings, Rafia cited multiple instances of domestic abuse, asserting that her husband was "mentally ill" and threatened "to kill himself on a daily basis." During one violent incident, she said, her son came between them "to save me." Gasser Shehata, a friend of Rizwan's from a San Bernardino mosque, said that Rizwan talked to him in recent years about his religious issues with his dad while growing up, and how he came to side with his mother in their disputes.
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