Gun Background Checks Peaked on Black Friday, Deal Reached on Transportation Funding, Terrorists Love Twitter: A.M. Links
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The U.K. is poised to join us in bombing Syria.
- George Washington University researchers say they've found approximately 300 American ISIS sympathizers on Twitter.
- "Do you have a male brain or a female brain? The answer, according to science, is no."
- This year's "Black Friday" set a new record for most gun background checks processed in a single day.
- Legislators are coming together on a $305 billion bill that to fund federal transportation efforts for the next five years; the measure allocates $205 billion for spending on highways and $48 billion for other transit projects, in addition to reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank's expired charter until 2019.
- How new regulations have affected the UK porn industry.
- A Turkish court must decide whether The Lord of the Rings character Gollum is good or bad.
- Congress voted to block Obama's proposed plan to force cuts to greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants.
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The Left's Smears on Research That Doesn't Support Their Conclusions: From gun control to climate change. —By John Stossel
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