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Two people, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, were involved in a mass shooting on Wednesday in San Bernardino, California. The duo killed 14 people and left 21 people injured. With the ammunition they had, it looked like they planned the assault beforehand. They found a few bombs that did not go off at the scene and are using them for research. Investigators say that Farook had connections to some people who are under investigation for international terrorism and that might have been their motivation to start this mass shooting.

In the military, women were originally not allowed to have combat positions, but now they are allowed to be in every one of them. Ashton Carter said, “To succeed in our mission of national defence, we cannot

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