10 things you need to know today: November 29, 2015

Vicki Cowart, head of Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains, speaks at a vigil after the Colorado Springs, Colorado, shooting

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1. Planned Parenthood vows to reopen Colorado Springs clinic soon
2. Suspected Planned Parenthood gunman reportedly known to South Carolina authorities
3. Ben Carson visits Syrian refugees in Jordan
4. Cleveland prosecutor releases enhanced images of Tamir Rice shooting
5. Prominent Kurdish lawyer killed in Turkey
6. Pope Francis calls for peace in Central African Republic
7. 'Baby Doe' Bella Bond buried in private funeral
8. Burkina Faso holds first vote since 2014 uprising
9. Researchers confident King Tut's tomb has hidden chamber
10. Matt Jones tops Jordan Spieth by 1 stroke in Australian Open win

published 29 November 2015

1. Planned Parenthood vows to reopen Colorado Springs clinic soon

Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains President Vicki Cowart vowed Saturday to reopen the Colorado Springs, Colorado, clinic soon. None of the clinic's 15 employees in the building at the time were wounded when a gunman fatally shot three people Friday. "We will adapt," Cowart said. "We will square our shoulders and we will go on." The clinic went under lockdown as the gunman reportedly wasn't able to make it past a locked door leading to the main part of the facility.

Robert Lewis Dear, 57, is being held without bond in connection with Friday's fatal shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Dear, who authorities say has an address in Hartsel, about an hour away from Colorado Springs, has reportedly been investigated as many as nine times by authorities in North and South Carolina. Though no official motive for the shooting has been announced, several outlets are reporting an anonymous law enforcement official heard Dear say "no more baby parts" after his arrest.

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After meeting Syrian refugees in Jordan on Saturday, Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson said he still does not want the U.S. to accept them. The retired neurosurgeon called the refugees he met in the Azraq camp "very hard working, determined people" that neighboring Middle Eastern countries should accept. Many Republican presidential candidates, governors, and legislators have called on the White House to modify its plan to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year, citing security concerns in the wake of the Nov. 13 Paris terrorist attacks.

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty released 326 enhanced images Saturday showing a frame-by-frame analysis of the November 2014 fatal shooting by Cleveland police officers of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy carrying a toy gun. The images seemingly back up reports released by the prosecutor suggesting Timothy Loehmann, the officer who shot Rice, may have believed Rice was armed with a real gun. The Rice family's attorneys are challenging that notion and asking the prosecutor to let their own use-of-force experts testify before the grand jury.

Tahir Elçi, a prominent Kurdish human rights lawyer, was fatally shot in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on Saturday. Two Turkish police officers also died. It was not clear who was responsible for the attack, and there was disagreement over whether Elçi was targeted as part of an ongoing violent conflict between Kurdish militants and the Turkish state. "In the place left by Tahir Elçi, thousands more Tahir Elçis will carry on the work in the struggle for law and justice," the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party said in a statement.

In his first visit to an active war zone, Pope Francis relayed a message of peace to the Central African Republic on Sunday. Due to violence between Christian and Muslim militants, thousands of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands of others have been displaced since 2013. "My wish for you, and for all Central Africans, is peace," Francis said at a refugee camp in Bangui, the nation's capital. The pope's visit is the last stop on his trip to Africa.

A private funeral service was held for "Baby Doe" Bella Bond, the Massachusetts 2-year-old whose unidentified body was found in a bag in June, prompting a months-long investigation of her death. "That gives us some good feeling that as she rests, she can look down and say that she was loved," said Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo (D-Winthrop). Michael McCarthy and Bond's mother, Rachelle, have both pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and being an accessory after the fact, respectively.

Burkina Faso residents took to the polls to elect a new leader Sunday in what experts called the most democratic vote in the West African nation's history. In October 2014, a political uprising ousted then-President Blaise Compaoré, who had ruled for 27 years after taking power in a coup. There are 14 candidates on the ballot, two of which analysts say have good shots at winning. Results are expected as early as Monday, with a runoff to follow if no one candidate earns a simple majority.

Researchers are now 90 percent sure there's a hidden chamber behind the tomb of King Tutankhamun, Egyptian Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty said at a news conference Saturday. British Egyptologist Nicholas Reeves published a paper earlier in 2015 with his findings from examining detailed scans of King Tut's tomb, suggesting there are two secret doorways that have gone untouched since the 14th century B.C. One might lead to a storeroom, and the other to the tomb of Queen Nefertiti, whose burial site has long been a mystery for researchers.

Matt Jones shot 8-under 276 in the 72-hole Australian Open to beat defending champ Jordan Spieth by one stroke Sunday. Jones led by three strokes going into the final day, and managed to stay ahead in spite of shooting a bogey, double-bogey, and triple-bogey on the front nine. Adam Scott tied Spieth for second place. "I battled away today," Jones said. "I could have let it slip and let it get away easily, but I fought it out."

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Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.