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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Officials say the man who shot and killed five people and wounded eight at a Florida airport once walked into an Alaska FBI office and said the government was controlling his mind and making him watch Islamic State group videos. Police say the gun was in the man's checked luggage in the baggage area. Relatives say he had a history of mental difficulties.
ISTANBUL (AP) — Thousands more civil servants are being shown the door in Turkey under an ongoing state of emergency declared after the failed July coup attempt. More than 8,000 civil servants joined more than 100,000 people already suspended or dismissed for alleged ties to terror organizations.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — There's no calling it the sunny South today. Officials say snow, sleet and freezing rain pelted a wide swath of the South overnight, turning roads icy and impassable in spots as children whooped it up on sleds and others braced for up to a foot of snow in parts of the Carolinas and Virginia. Tennessee reports hundreds of fender-benders due to icy roads. A few areas could get a foot of snow.
WASHINGTON (AP) — There's some hand-wringing among Republicans about impending legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act and leave an empty space where a replacement measure should be. But crafting that replacement amid GOP divisions and Democratic opposition is hard. With 20 million subscribers to President Barack Obama's signature plan, some GOP lawmakers see a political nightmare if that many people are left in the lurch by a repeal.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Jeh (Jay) Johnson is expanding the definition of critical infrastructure to include the U.S. election system following evidence of Russian meddling last November. He cited increasingly sophisticated cyber bad actors and an election infrastructure that's "vital to our national interests. Some states worry it will bring more federal regulation.
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