President Obama will visit San Bernardino Friday to visit privately with the families of victims of a terrorist shooting spree that killed 14 people and injured 22 more, the White House said.
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The White House said it’s still possible the president could endorse in the Democratic primary, which is a two-way contest between front-runner Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen.
Fourteen people died on December 2 when radicalized Muslims Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik opened fire on Farook’s co-workers at a holiday party.
The fight against the militant group in Syria and Iraq and preventing similar attacks at home will be at the top of his list for 2016, the officials said.
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The attack has made Americans increasingly nervous about their security. Malik came to the U.S.in 2014 on a K-1, or fiancee visa.
The failure to pass new gun control laws, in the face of repeated mass shootings, is widely considered the administration’s greatest disappointment, one official said. She said the recommendations will include measures to expand background checks.
Obama was forced to interrupt his Hawaii vacation in 2009 when a man tied to al Qaeda attempted to detonate an underwear bomb aboard a commercial airliner in Detroit.
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During a previously scheduled trip to Paris last to attend an global climate conference, Obama laid a rose at a memorial outside a concert hall where numerous victims in that attack were killed.
