The Roar keeps you updated with local news, recent events and interesting stories ― everything you need to know for this week:
1. 127 dead after a series of what appear to be coordinated attacks across Paris late Friday. France has declared a national state of emergency and has closed its borders after people were killed in the numerous shootings.
2. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could further limit a woman’s right to obtain an abortion. The case is called Whole Woman’s Health vs. Cole.
3. David Hasselhoff claims he changed his name to David Hoff. “Big news today and a massive relief for me. I hope everyone can understand… it feels great!” he tweeted, attaching a video in which he shows documents featuring his new name.
4. Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday released a comprehensive immigration plan that he would execute as president that would severely limit legal immigration.
5. 147 dead, Islamist gunmen killed after attack at Garissa University College, a Kenyan school.
6. Family and friends are set to say goodbye to a 6-year old autistic child, Jeremy Mardis, who was killed during a police pursuit in Louisiana that left his father seriously injured. Funeral services for Mardis are scheduled Monday afternoon.
7. A Secret Service employee has been arrested for sending sexually explicit messages to someone that he thought was a 14-year old girl.
8. A Georgian mother, Grace Love An, has been arrested after police said she bound her 16-month-old son with packing tape and kept him in a locked vehicle for hours.
9. The U.S. military is “reasonably certain” that an American drone strike in Syria killed the Islamic State executioner, “Jihadi John,” an official said Friday as British and U.S. officials seek to confirm the details of the event.
10. At a rally Thursday night in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Donald Trump spent an hour and a half bashing everyone- his rivals like Ben Carson and Hillary Clinton, and even the voters of Iowa. He compared Carson to a child molester, claimed he knows more about ISIS than U.S. generals do, and called the voters of Iowa “stupid.”
11. A pair of suicide bombings struck southern Beirut on Thursday, killing 43 people.
