CALIFORNIA SHOOTINGS

SAN BERNARDINO, California - California gunman Syed Rizwan Farook had been in contact with known Islamic extremists on social media, a U.S. intelligence official says, and police say he and his wife had enough bullets and bombs to slaughter hundreds when they launched their deadly attack on a holiday party. 

WOMEN IN COMBAT

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Ash Carter announces he is ordering the U.S. military to open all combat jobs to women, rebuffing requests by the Marine Corps to exclude women from certain front-line combat jobs. 

ARKANSAS EXECUTIONS

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - An Arkansas judge has struck down a portion of the state's law that keeps secret details about the drugs used in executions, saying that drug suppliers do not have a constitutional right to be free from criticism.

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-TRUMP-MUSLIMS

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey - The leader of a national Muslim-American organization calls Donald Trump's claim that he saw Jersey City residents celebrating on the day of the 2001 terrorist attacks "vicious," and he invites the Republican presidential candidate to come to the city and meet with Muslims.

MEXICO-THE DISAPPEARED-SEARCHING

IGUALA, Mexico - Emboldened by a national uproar over the disappearance of 43 students at the hands of Mexican police, dozens of families have given up their Sundays to roam the mountains searching for the graves of others who have vanished in recent years. They have found more than 100 bodies, but the discoveries have come at a cost. "What we saw broke us," says one gravedigger. 

CONGRESS-GUNS

WASHINGTON - A polarized Senate votes against expanding background checks for more gun purchases, rejecting the proposal a day after the latest U.S. mass shooting left 14 people dead in California.