| FBI investigating California massacre as 'act of terrorism' Posted: 04 Dec 2015 11:47 AM PST  By Mark Hosenball and Yasmeen Abutaleb WASHINGTON/SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating this week's massacre in which a married couple killed 14 people in California as an "act of terrorism," an official said on Friday, as sources said that the female shooter apparently pledged allegiance to a leader of the militant group Islamic State. Tashfeen Malik, 27, a native of Pakistan, and her U.S.-born husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, were killed in a shootout with police hours after the Wednesday massacre during a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center social services agency in San Bernardino, about 60 miles (100 km) east of Los Angeles. U.S. investigators are evaluating evidence that Malik, a Pakistani native who had been living in Saudi Arabia when she married Farook, had pledged allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, two U.S. officials told Reuters.
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| Mosque members on San Bernardino shooter: ‘He was living the American dream’ Posted: 04 Dec 2015 09:02 AM PST  Members 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.
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| Trump picked stock fraud felon as senior adviser Posted: 04 Dec 2015 07:54 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump tapped a man to be a senior business adviser to his real-estate empire even after the man's past involvement in a major Mafia-linked stock fraud scheme had become publicly known, according to Associated Press interviews and a review of court records.
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| Exclusive: California shooter Malik lived in Saudi Arabia for years Posted: 04 Dec 2015 10:39 AM PST  Malik, 27, and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, the U.S.-born son of Pakistani immigrants, were killed in a shootout with police on Wednesday, hours after the mass shooting in San Bernardino in which 14 people died. U.S. government sources said Malik apparently had pledged allegiance to a leader of Islamic State, the Islamist militant group that controls large watches of territory in Syria and Iraq and claimed responsibility for the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. The investigation into the California carnage has spread to Pakistan, where intelligence officials questioned members of Malik's family, including her uncle, Javed Rabbani, the brother of her father, Gulzar.
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| Supreme Court agrees to hear Puerto Rico restructuring appeal Posted: 04 Dec 2015 11:25 AM PST  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Puerto Rico's bid to reinstate a law that would allow restructuring of the U.S. territory's public agencies as the Caribbean island grapples with its huge debt load. The court also took up a companion case filed by representatives of the publicly owned Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico. The court noted in its brief order that Justice Samuel Alito will not participate in the case, meaning only eight justices will hear it.
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| Senate OKs GOP bill unraveling Obamacare Posted: 03 Dec 2015 05:49 PM PST  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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