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With ten weeks to go until the end of the fiscal year, the Obama administration continues to admit Syrian refugees at an accelerated pace, and has now exceeded two-thirds of President Obama's target of 10,000 by September 30. The proportion of Christians among those resettled continues to languish below half of one percent, while other non-Sunnis account for just over one percent. As of Monday, 1,515 Syrian refugees fleeing the civil war in their homeland had been admitted since the beginning of July, and a total of 6,726 since FY 2016 began on October 1, according to State Department Refugee...

32 blades, no explanation Mystery surrounds Pakistani who will be sentenced for carrying razor blades at D/FW By Toni Heinzl Star-Telegram Staff Writer FORT WORTH - Fazal Karim and the 32 double-edged razor blades he kept in a coiled belt in a cardboard box in his carry-on bag remain a mystery to the men who prosecuted and defended him in federal court. A former computer programmer with the civilian-aviation authority of Pakistan, Karim, 37, lived with his wife and three young children in Houston, where he ran three cellphone stores. Prosecutors say he returned to Texas from a four-week trip...