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Morning Briefing: Sikh Temple Shooter Identified

– The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms identified the terrorist who killed six people at a Sikh temple this weekend, releasing that he is “an Army veteran who may have been a white supremacist.”

– NASA landed a rover on Mars, which will spend the next two years combing the Red Planet for evidence that it once had the necessary conditions for life.

– Spain’s 2 year bond yields have plummeted recently, suggesting at least temporary improvement in the Euro crisis:

– A British journalist recounts a harrowing story of escaping from his captors after being kidnapped in Syria.

– And finally, Colorado generated 57 percent of its energy from wind power one night, demonstrating the potential of properly-utilized renewable energy sources.

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