memeorandum: Obama: US will defeat terror threat's new phase (Julie Pace/WOOD-TV)

3:29 AM ET, December 7, 2015

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San Bernardino shooting updates: Tashfeen Malik attended seminary in Pakistan; President Obama to address the nation — Key developments

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Shawna Thomas / NBC News:

AG Lynch: President Will Call On Congress to Take Action on Guns in San Bernardino Address — In an appearance on NBC's “Meet the Press,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch previewed the remarks President Barack Obama will make when he speaks to the country Sunday evening about the recent terrorist attack in San Bernardino.

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Julie Pace / WOOD-TV:

Obama: US will defeat terror threat's new phase — “I know that after so much war, many Americans are asking whether we are confronted by a cancer that has no immediate cure,” he said, speaking from a lectern in his West Wing office. “The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it,” he declared.

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Daniel Politi / Slate:

Obama: Increasing Gun Control, Rejecting Islamophobia Are Key to Combating Terrorism — In a rare prime-time address to the country from the Oval Office, President Obama made clear that he thinks increased gun control at home is essential to fighting ISIS—and terrorism in general.

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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:

Full text: Obama's Oval Office address on San Bernardino and ISIS — Sunday night, President Obama gave a primetime address to the nation on the San Bernardino attacks and ISIS (or, as he calls it, ISIL). In it, Obama gave a full-throated defense of his counter-terrorism policy …

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Nahal Toosi / Politico:

Obama misspoke about San Bernardino suspect's visa — In announcing one of the new steps his administration is taking to secure the U.S. from terrorists, President Barack Obama's carefully scripted Sunday night address to the nation included at least one mistake.

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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:

Obama's Oval Office address reflects struggle to be heard — In the weeks since the terrorist attacks in Paris, President Obama has stressed in speech after speech that America's law enforcement and homeland security officials are “relentless.” He has insisted that the country remains “strong” and “resilient.”

Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
OBAMA: TERRORISM AN ‘EVOLVING THREAT’ U.S. WILL OVERCOME

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Agence France-Presse:
Obama to urge Americans ‘to not give in to fear’

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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo Politics:
Trump, Clinton talk terror and gun control in wake of San Bernardino attack

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Tanya Somanader / Blog Daily Listings RSS:
President Obama Addresses the Nation on Keeping the American People Safe

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David Mark / CNN:
President Obama to address nation over terror threats

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CBS News:

Face the Nation transcripts December 6, 2015: Trump, Christie, Sanders — This is the transcript for the December 6 edition of Face the Nation. Guests included Donald Trump, Chris Christie, Bernie Sanders, Jeff Pegues, Fran Townsend, Michael Morell, Gwen Ifill, Ben Domenech, Gerald Seib, and Ed O'Keefe.

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Arit John / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Says Political Correctness Helped Enable California Attack

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Jeremy Herb / Politico:
Trump: Islamic terrorism will get solved when Obama ‘gets the hell out’

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Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Chris Christie warns Iowans against Trump

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Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
Trump pumps siege mentality in Iowa

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BBC:

France elections: National Front leads in regional polls — France's far-right National Front (FN) appears to have made big gains in the first round of regional elections, estimates show. — They put the FN ahead in at least six of 13 regions in mainland France.

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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:

Shooter's Mother Active In US Branch Of Pro-Caliphate Islamic Group — Rafia Farook, the mother of San Bernardino terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook, is an active member of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a Muslim organization that promotes the establishment of a caliphate and has ties …

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Rossella Tercatin / The Times of Israel:
San Bernardino shooter's dad: He was ‘obsessed’ with Israel

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Carter: Cancer is gone — Former President Jimmy Carter said Sunday his cancer is gone. — Carter, 91, made the announcement near the beginning of the Sunday School class he was teaching at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, a close friend and fellow church member said.

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Kimberly Dozier / The Daily Beast:

U.S. Intel to Obama: ISIS Is Not Contained — A new report stands in stark contrast to earlier White House assurances that ISIS had been “contained.” And it is already spurring changes in how the U.S. grapples with ISIS. — A new U.S. intelligence report on ISIS, commissioned by the White House …

Barbara Goldberg / Raw Story:

State of Delaware moves to apologize for its role in slavery — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Delaware Governor Jack Markell, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery in the United States, announced on Sunday a resolution to officially apologize for his state's role in slavery.

Bradford Richardson / The Hill:

Rubio: No-fly list full of ‘everyday Americans’ — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says a majority of the people on the federal “no-fly list” do not belong there and therefore should not have their right to purchase firearms taken away. — “These are everyday Americans that have nothing to do with terrorism …

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Bradford Richardson / The Hill:
Kasich: Keep guns from those on no-fly list

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Andrew Husband / Mediaite:

Hillary Clinton: I Don't Say ‘Radical Islam’ Because It 'Doesn't Do Justice' to Good Muslims — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton really doesn't like using the term “radical Islam.” — This Week host George Stephanopoulos called out the former U.S. Secretary of State …

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