Russia says it fired warning shots at a Turkish fishing vessel to avoid a collision in the Aegean Sea on Sunday (Dec. 13). The incident comes as tensions between the two countries are high after Turkey shot down a Russian military plane last month, and more broadly, over the conflict in Syria.
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Donald Trump may have caused a storm with his recent call to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, but outrage appears to have been limited to journalists, pundits and politicians. According to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC poll, Trump’s standing among voters has not changed since October.
Over the last five years, Texas has resettled more refugees than any other US state, surpassing even the more populous California. That includes about 250 people from Syria—a significant proportion of the tiny number of Syrians who have been allowed into the United States since 2011, when the country’s harrowing civil war began.
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Robert Lewis Dear, who is accused of killing three people and wounding nine during the shooting spree at the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic on Nov. 27, shouted ”I’m a warrior for the babies” as he appeared in court. ”I am guilty,” he said. “There will be no trial.”
Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s suggestion that the United States should ban Muslims from coming into the country has outraged many—including the current occupants of the White House.
In an op-ed for The New York Times (paywall), Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, inserted himself directly into the middle of a heated debate about the line between fighting terrorism’s online reach and internet censorship.
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Hillary Clinton would like to see Silicon Valley disrupting ISIL. She said that the terrorist organization is now “the most effective recruiter in the world,” beating the best corporations at their game.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Friday (Dec. 4) it was now officially taking the lead on the investigation into the San Bernardino shooting that left 14 dead, and treating it as an “act of terrorism.”
After a five-year-long legal dispute over patenting smartphone technology, Samsung has finally agreed to pay Apple $548 million as part of a settlement between the two companies. Samsung should pay up before Dec. 14, according to court documents filed to a California court on Thursday (Dec. 3).
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The United States has arrested 71 people on charges connected to the activities of the Islamic State since March 2014, including 56 this year—a record number of terrorist arrests since the September 11, 2001 attacks. A new study from George Washington University outlines the demographics of the people arrested, which paint a chilling picture of ISIL’s recruiting efforts.
Ivy League schools are re-thinking a longtime tradition, embarrassingly evocative of the United States’ days of slavery. At Harvard and other elite universities, heads of student housing are dropping the title “master.”
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel has asked for the resignation of the city’s police superintendent, Garry McCarthy. The decision, announced at a press conference today (Dec. 1), comes after a prosecutors last week charged a Chicago police officer with first degree murder and released a video of him firing 16 shots at a black teenager last October. The surfacing of the video sparked protests across the city.
It’s hunting season in Norway, and the number of hunters vastly outnumbers the prey. This year, a whopping 11,571 people signed up for licenses to kill 16 wolves, a ratio of 763 hunters per animal.
Authorities haven’t yet determined where the terrorists who killed 130 people in Paris in November got their weapons–a relatively easy purchase in Europe, where gun laws are fragmented and trafficking widespread. But one potential source is the same gun shop in Slovakia that supplied the guns used in attacks in Paris in January, and in a thwarted attempt on a French train in August.
Thanks to court documents released today (Nov. 30) Americans can for the first time glimpse one of the US government’s powerful surveillance tools: the National Security Letter, or NSL.
Chicago was rocked by protests on Tuesday night (Nov. 24) after mayor Rahm Emanuel released a graphic dash cam video showing a white police officer killing a black teenager with a hailstorm of 16 bullets in October 2014. Laquan McDonald was one of 70 people killed by the police in the city in recent years.
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A study of twins and their thighs shows an unexpected connection between fit legs and brainpower in women: the stronger your legs are when you’re young, the more likely you will be a sharp old lady.
This is something to bear in mind the next time Americans criticize the democratic credentials of other nations.
The US House of Representatives, in a 289-137 vote, passed a measure that would make it even harder for refugees from Syria and Iraq to enter the United States.
