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P.M. Links: El Chapo Captured, Belgian Bomb-Making Site Linked to Paris Attacks, American Sniper Widow Taya Kyle Rejects Obama's Gun Control Push

Damon Root | 1.8.2016 4:30 PM


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    Belgian investigators say they have identified an apartment in Brussels where explosives used in the November Paris attacks were made.

  • Taya Kyle, the widow of American Sniper author Chris Kyle, is speaking out against President Barack Obama's new gun control push.
  • Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has been captured.
  • A 30-year-old man who shot a Philadelphia police officer on Thursday says he carried out the shooting in the name of ISIS.
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  • "At least 18 asylum seekers are among 31 people who have been identified so far by the federal police as having played a role in a violent assault on young women in the German city of Cologne on New Year's Eve, the Interior Ministry said on Friday."

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books).