California shooter messaged Facebook friends about support for jihad: LA Times

(Reuters) – One of the shooters in the San Bernardino massacre, Tashfeen Malik, sent at least two private messages on Facebook to a small group of Pakistani friends in 2012 and 2014, pledging her support for Islamic jihad and saying she hoped to join the fight one day, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday. The messages were posted before Malik, 29, entered the United States on a K-1 fiancĂ©e visa in July 2014, the Times said, citing two top federal law enforcement officials. Malik's messages were recovered by FBI agents investigating whether she and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, had been in direct contact with foreign militant organizations and were directed to carry out the Dec

Read more

Canada’s strategic voters lean Liberal as vote nears

By Julie Gordon VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Organizers of two key strategic voting campaigns in Canada are throwing most of their support to the center-left Liberals, who lead the ruling Conservatives in polls and may also benefit from a bandwagon effect in the final days of the tight campaign. Both Leadnow, a non-profit group funded through individual donations, and website strategicvoting.ca have seen support grow as sentiment against Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his 10-year-old government builds and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau opens up a lead in opinion polls.

Read more

Tinder, Match.com owner seeks date with investors

The company is owned by media mogul Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp , which said in June it would float less than 20 percent of Match in an IPO. Revenue rose 10.3 percent to $888.1 million in 2014, according to the company’s IPO filing, while it jumped 19 percent to $254.7 million in the second quarter ended June. “It looks like it will be well received by the IPO market ..

Read more