Danish Shooter Killed, Egypt Hits ISIS

Denmark: The shooter in the Copenhagen café attack has been identified as a 22-year-old Danish-born man with a history of violence and gang affiliation. Witnesses said they heard him shout, “God is great!” as he sprayed the café with bullets. The police have not released his name.

They say two other men who helped him are in custody today.

A 55-year-old Danish filmmaker was killed inside the café Saturday and later a security guard was killed outside a synagogue hosting a bat mitzvah. Five police and security officers were wounded in the two shootings. Authorities say they believe the attack was inspired by the Islamic revenge murders at the Paris magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Ukraine: Fighting continues in the Debaltseve area of eastern Ukraine more than a day after a ceasefire was supposed to go into effect. And Ukraine says five of its soldiers have been killed in fighting near the port city of Mariupol.

Permawar: Egypt says it has carried out air strikes against Islamic State targets in retaliation forwhat appears to be the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by ISIS extremists. ISIS posted a video yesterday of the apparent killings of 21 Egyptian laborers who had been held hostage. El-Sissi said, “Egypt and the whole world are in a fierce battle with extremist groups carrying extremist ideology and sharing the same goals.” It’d similar to the reaction of Jordan after the murder of its downed fighter pilot.

Drone On: The Federal Aviation Administration yesterday proposed new rules that would kill Amazon’s plans to deliver packages by unmanned drones. The rules requiring that commercial operators of the radio-controlled aircraft be certified, fly only in daylight and keep their drones in sight. The proposed rules would apply only to non-recreational aircraft weighing up to 55 pounds.

The agency is also considering rules for drones weighing less than 4.4 pounds. The increasing and so far unregulated use of drones is causing safety problems particularly with civil aviation.

World: As the flow of refugees from Africa continues, the Italian coast guard has rescued more than 2,100 migrants from a dozen boats in the Mediterranean. More than 300 migrants died just last week.

Cold: A storm bringing snow and ice is moving across the mid South and is expected to crawl up the coast to New England tomorrow.

Bismarck, 21; Nashville, 23; Chicago, 8; Buffalo, -9; Albany, -7; New York, 4; Boston, -1. If you want it to be even colder, watch the local television news and they’ll give it to you in wind chill.

The Obit Page:Former poet laureate Phillip Levine, who wrote in free verse, has died in Fresno, Calif. at age 87. He was poet laureate in 2011-12 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1995.

Levine’s work tended to be autobiographical about growing up in Detroit, factory jobs he worked, and living in Spain when he was young.

From “Coming Home, Detroit, 1968”:

A winter Tuesday, the city pouring fire,

Ford Rouge sulfurs the sun, Cadillac, Lincoln,

Chevy gray. The fat stacks

of breweries hold their tongues. Rags,

papers, hands, the stems of birches

dirtied with words.

>Louis Jourdan, the impossibly handsome French actor who starred in the 1958 musical “Gigi” and was the villain in the 1983 James Bond flick “Octopussy, has died at age 93. Jourdan also appeared in the 1954 “Three Coins in the Fountain”, “Can-Can in 1960, and narrated the 1962 “Irma la Douce.”

The Darwin Report: A 20-year-old American is reported to be out of danger following surgery after he was gored running with the bulls in Rodrigo, Spain. Benjamin Miller of Georgia suffered a 16-inch wound in one thigh and will have to explain it to his mother.

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