Clinton vows to defeat IS if elected

Clinton vows to defeat IS if elected

TULSA, Okla.

Campaigning in Republican territory, Hillary Clinton said Friday her opponents are all talk when it comes to defeating the Islamic State group, but she’s the only candidate with a specific plan.

“The others, they talk a lot, they throw out all of these approaches,” Clinton said at a rally in Oklahoma. “But I’ve been in the situation room in the White House and I know what it’s going to take and I will keep America safe.”

The Democratic presidential candidate and former secretary of state sought to emphasize her foreign-policy credentials in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack in Paris and a massacre in California currently under investigation by the FBI as an act of terrorism.

FBI pulls items from lake in terror probe

LOS ANGELES

FBI investigators Friday recovered several items from a San Bernardino lake as they looked for electronics and other items left by the shooters who killed 14 people last week, according to law-enforcement sources.

The source did not say what was found, but officials expect the search of Seccombe Lake and the canvassing of the surrounding neighborhood to continue.

Investigators received a tip that the shooters may have visited the area on the day of the attack, according to David Bowdich, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office.

Deadly car bomb hits diplomatic area

KABUL, Afghanistan

Explosions and gunfire rocked a diplomatic area of central Kabul overnight as security forces tried to flush out Taliban attackers who claimed responsibility for a deadly car bomb Friday.

Spain said one of its police officers was killed in the bombing. Hours later, the U.N. Security Council issued a condemnation that said an Afghan policeman had been killed as well. Seven civilians were wounded.

Pot-laced brownies sicken teachers

HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich.

Authorities say three suburban Detroit teachers got sick after eating marijuana-laced brownies put out in a school lounge.

Oakland County sheriff’s officials said Friday that deputies were called Wednesday to Spring Mills Elementary School in Highland Township on a tainted- food complaint. A teacher became ill the day before and later tested positive for marijuana at a hospital.

Police say two other teachers felt sick but didn’t seek medical treatment.

The deputies recovered the remaining brownies. Tests revealed they contained the active ingredient in marijuana.

Mosque fire probed

COACHELLA, Calif.

A Southern California mosque was damaged Friday in a fire reported to authorities as a possible arson.

Flames were reported just after noon at the Islamic Center of Palm Springs, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. The fire was contained to the small building’s front lobby, and no one was injured. Its cause is under investigation.

People there described hearing a “loud boom” and seeing flames, said Reymundo Nour, the mosque’s acting imam, who was not on the site at the time. He said the mosque had been “firebombed.”

A spokesman for the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department declined to state whether the fire was being investigated as an arson or whether the mosque had been firebombed.

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