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(CNN) —The Homeland Security Department and the FBI on Saturday issued a joint intelligence bulletin to law enforcement agencies around the U.S. following the Chattanooga shootings that killed five U.S. service members, saying that the shooter's motive remains unclear. This despite a claim by Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul that the shooter was inspired by ISIS. "We have no information at this time indicating that this incident was either inspired, directed, or assisted by individuals associated with an identified designated foreign terrorist organization," a U.S. law enforcement official said. "However, the FBI investigation into his activities while overseas...

A US sailor has died from wounds sustained in an attack on military buildings in Chattanooga, Tennessee, two days ago, the US Navy says. The death of logistics specialist Randall Smith brings to five the number of people killed by gunman Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez. The other four victims were US marines. Abdulazeez was himself later killed in a shootout with police. The FBI has said his motives for the shooting were unclear....

An FBI official said this afternoon that they so far have “no indication” that Chattanooga gunman Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez was “inspired by or directed by anyone other than himself.”Special agent in charge Ed Reinhold disputed an earlier assertion from House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul (R-Texas) that ISIS is likely involved.“My judgment and my experience is that it was an ISIS-inspired attack,” McCaul told reporters at a press conference at Florida’s MacDill Air Force Base. “The targets are identical to the targets called by ISIS to attack.”Abdulazeez wrote two blog posts on July 13 in which he talked...

<p>WASHINGTON — As Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Smith fights for his life after being shot at a military support center in Tennessee, his grandmother wonders why troops at recruiting and reserve offices aren't allowed to have guns.</p> <p>It's a question many were asking Friday, a day after the deadly shooting that killed four Marines and injured three others in Chattanooga. Military officials say the Pentagon shouldn't rush to change the ban, which is governed in part by century-old law, because arming troops in those facilities could cause more problems than it might solve.</p>

Chattanooga, Tennessee (CNN)A U.S. Navy sailor wounded in a shooting rampage in Tennessee died early Saturday, according to the Navy, becoming the fifth U.S. service member killed the attack. The Navy did not release his name. However, a relative earlier identified the one sailor injured in the attack as Randall Smith. Smith, a logistics specialist, was shot in the liver, colon and stomach, according to his grandmother, Linda Wallace. Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez opened fire at two military-related locations in Chattanooga on Thursday, shooting seven people, including four Marines who died that day. The two surviving wounded are a Marine recruiter...

Full title: Chattanooga Jihad Murderer’s Family: Polygamy, Jew-Hatred, and Wife Beating – Wanted to take second wife ‘because it was allowed under Islamic law’Obama has imported hundreds of thousands of these adherents to the most brutal and extreme ideology on the face of the earth with still hundreds of thousands more to come.The Chattanooga Muslim murderer family was religious and violent. They are hardly unique. According to a recent poll, there is high levels of support for sharia law and violence among American MuslimsA majority (51 percent) of Muslims surveyed said they “should have the choice of being governed according...

The U.S. Navy says that the sailor who was shot earlier this week at a military support center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has died. The death occurred two days after a deadly shooting killed four Marines and injured three others, including the sailor, in Chattanooga. …

Former Vice President Al Gore offered up some rare criticism of President Barack Obama’s environmental policy in a recent interview, calling for a ban on all Arctic drilling and blasting the administration’s decision to allow Royal Dutch Shell to begin sinking exploratory wells in the oil-rich Chukchi Sea in the Arctic as “insane.” “I think that in his second term, he has done really quite a good job,” Gore said in an interview with The Guardian published Thursday. “Of course there are things I would change. I think Arctic drilling is insane. I think that countries around the world would...

It’s time to draft Al Gore: If Democrats want to win, it’s clear neither Hillary nor Sanders is the way The presidential election is still sixteen months away, but this much is clear: Hillary Clinton is a vulnerable candidate. Since announcing her candidacy in April, Clinton’s stature has steadily slipped. Things got even worse this week. We learned, first, that Bernie Sanders eclipsed Clinton in small, individual donations, which is an indicator of popular support among likely voters. Second, and more problematic, the newest AP poll revealed significant weaknesses among Democrats on a host of issues, including trust, character, and...

In the wake of yesterday’s terrorist attack that killed four unarmed Marines at military facility, a ever-louder chorus of voices is demanding important and immediate changes to prevent this type of attack from happening yet again. The most tangible change, of course, is getting rid of the policy that keeps our troops unarmed on their home base. But there’s another culprit of a more insidious nature that’s increasingly being called out: the environment of political correctness that so many on the left, including our president, seem to put above all else — including common sense and lives. Today, music legend...

After it was revealed that the Muslim shooter who on Thursday murdered four US Marines in Chattanooga, Tennessee was the son of a man who previously was on the terrorist watch list, new details have surfaced about the father. It has been widely reported that the shooter, Muhammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, was a naturalized American born in Kuwait. While it’s true his mother Rasmia Abdulazeez is from Kuwait, where Muhammod was born in 1990, multiple reports reveal that the attacker’s father Youssuf Abdulazeez actually hailed from Shechem (Nablus) in Samaria, a city under Palestinian Authority (PA) control. […] Experts have said...

The man accused of beating a pregnant teenager - causing a stillbirth - was in Hamilton County court for a preliminary hearing. Justin Armour is charged with criminal homicide, domestic assault, and false imprisonment. Those charges were bound over to the grand jury after judge Lila Statom heard testimony from police, the medical examiner, and the victim. "This baby ain't gonna live after today," said the victim, speaking to the court about what she says Justin Armour said to her while he beat her.

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U.S. authorities believe the suspect in the fatal shootings of four Marines in Tennessee visited Jordan last year and possibly Yemen as well, two U.S. government sources said on Friday, as investigators looked for any connection to Islamist militants.Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, a 24-year-old Kuwait-born U.S. citizen A little more than 24 hours after the shooting, the FBI said it continued to investigate it as an act of terrorism and that it was "premature" to speculate on the motive. Abdulazeez's travel was part of the investigation. "We do know that he has traveled outside of the United States," Ed Reinhold, FBI...

An FBI official said investigators have no evidence at this point that anyone but a lone gunman was involved in the fatal shooting of four US Marines in Chattanooga,Tennessee. FBI agent Ed Reinhold told a news conference Thursday night that the shooter initially fired from inside his car when he drove by a military recruiting center at a strip mall. Reinhold said the shooter then drove to another US military site, where he got out of his car before fatally shooting the marines. Asked about potential accomplices, Reinhold responded, “There is no indication at this point that anybody else was...

the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act that Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) negotiated with Obama guarantees that the Republican Congress will give its stamp of approval to Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran. Worse, it gives Democrats political cover by allowing them to vote against the Iran agreement without actually killing it – so they can say they opposed this disastrous deal without actually delivering an embarrassing defeat to their president. Instead of requiring that Congress vote to affirmatively approve the Obama-Iran agreement before it can take effect, Congressional Republicans agreed to move forward with a “resolution of disapproval” – which allows...

As authorities investigate a deadly attack in Tennessee as a potential case of terrorism, which occurred on the heels of several attacks across the globe in recent weeks, President Barack Obama issued a statement Thursday wishing Muslims a happy Ramadan. The Muslim holy month ends Friday. [....] It's not clear what time Thursday the aforementioned White House statement was released, but Obama wished Muslims in the United States and across the world "joy" as Ramadan comes to a close. "Michelle and I would like to extend our warmest wishes to Muslims in the United States and around the world celebrating...

RUSH: Greetings, my friends, and welcome to Open Line Twilight Zone. Great to have you here. Yep. It was just an average American teenager walking along the street, Tennessee, Mahmoud Youssuf Abdulazeez al-Sahib Skyhook. Just your average American teenager, had a gun he shouldn't have had, and you know what happened. JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it's Open Line Friday! RUSH: Yeah, we have no idea why. The media's pulling its hair out trying to figure why in the world would this average, ordinary blend-in-with-the-crowd, never-stop-him-in-a-lineup American teenager, Mohammed Youssuf Abdulazeez, what in the world could have...

RUSH: I know the Dittocam is not on yet. The reason it isn't is because I have zoomed in real tight 'cause I want to show you something, and admittedly it's gonna be very hard to see so I'm gonna have to tell you that we'll have the actual photo of what I'm gonna show you here on the Dittocam up at RushLimbaugh.com. What it is: Liberalism perfectly illustrated in one picture. Are you ready? Again, for those of you listening on the radio without access to Rush 24/7 or our website and the Dittocam, endure with us here. I'll...

Full Title: CRUZ: We cannot afford to wait six years to recognize what happened yesterday in Chattanooga for what it wasHOUSTON, Texas — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, released the following statement in response to yesterday’s act of terror in Chattanooga, Tennessee:“Yesterday, members of our armed services in Chattanooga, Tennessee, went to work in the service of our nation. Some went to a recruiting center to assist the young people who, like so many before them, would walk through the door on any given Thursday morning and volunteer to defend the United States of America. Four brave Marines went to...