10 things you need to know today: December 5, 2015

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1. ISIS claims suspected San Bernardino shooters were 'followers'
2. Negotiators reach draft agreement on climate change
3. U.S. economy adds 211,000 jobs in November
4. Laquan McDonald police reports reportedly conflict with video footage
5. NYT calls for gun control in first front-page editorial since 1920
6. Donald Trump takes commanding lead in new poll
7. Oklahoma prison director resigns amid investigation into botched executions
8. MSNBC apologizes for live shots from San Bernardino shooters' home
9. Caitlyn Jenner sued by family allegedly injured in fatal car crash
10. Scarface star Robert Loggia dies at 85

last updated 5 December 2015

1. ISIS claims suspected San Bernardino shooters were 'followers'

In an online radio broadcast Saturday, the Islamic State reportedly claimed that the suspected shooters who killed 14 in a San Bernardino, California, attack Wednesday were "followers" of the terrorist group. Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 29, died in a shootout with police hours after the attack on the local environmental health department. Facebook confirmed Friday that around the time of the shooting, comments posted on an alias account established by Malik praised ISIS. The FBI said Friday it is investigating the shooting as an "act of terrorism."

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The U.S. economy added 211,000 jobs in November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, in line with economists' expectations. The economy gained another 35,000 jobs through revisions to September and October's estimates. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 5 percent. The Federal Reserve is widely expected to begin hiking interest rates later this month, based on the belief that the economy is now in steady recovery.

Hundreds of pages of police reports released Friday by Chicago officials on the 2014 fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald reportedly conflict with what the now-public video footage shows. In the reports, Jason Van Dyke — the officer who shot McDonald 16 times — and at least five other officers claimed the black teenager was moving toward officers in a threatening manner, according to the Chicago Tribune. However, the dash-cam video shows McDonald walking away. In November, Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder.

The New York Times called for tighter gun control on its front page Saturday, the first time the newspaper has placed an editorial there in 95 years. "It is a moral outrage and a national disgrace that civilians can legally purchase weapons designed specifically to kill people with brutal speed and efficiency," the editorial board wrote in the wake of Wednesday's mass shooting in San Bernardino, California. In 1920, the Times used a front-page editorial to blast Warren G. Harding, then the Republican presidential nominee.

Donald Trump essentially lapped the GOP presidential field in a new CNN/ORC poll out Friday, snagging 36 percent support and opening a 20-point lead over his rivals. Second-place Ted Cruz trails with 16 percent. Ben Carson, once Trump's biggest competitor, continued his downward slide in the polls, falling to third with 14 percent. The poll, conducted among 445 Republican or Republican-leaning voters, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

Oklahoma's prison director resigned Friday amid a a grand jury investigation into the two botched lethal injections he oversaw. Robert Patton's resignation is effective Jan. 31. Last January, the wrong drugs were used in an execution, and delivered again to the prison for a September execution. In April 2014, the execution of Clayton Lockett took 43 minutes, with the prisoner speaking and moving on the gurney. Patton, who said he accepted a job near family in Arizona, is the second state official to step down during the investigation.

After the suspected San Bernardino shooters' landlord reportedly opened Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik's apartment to the media Friday, allowing networks like MSNBC and CNN to live-broadcast reporters rifling through the couple's personal belongings, MSNBC has apologized, saying "images of photographs and identification cards...should not have been aired without review." The searches, which raised questions about privacy, proper handling of a crime scene, and the ethics of such a live broadcast, were allowed because law enforcement officials cleared the site, the network said.

A family that allegedly suffered serious injuries in a February fatal car crash involving Caitlyn Jenner sued the Olympic gold medalist for negligence Friday. In September, police cleared Jenner of wrongdoing in the crash, in which she rear-ended a car driven by Kim Howe, which in turn collided with a vehicle carrying Peter Wolf-Millesi, his wife, kids, and another woman. Howe died in the crash. Wolf-Millesi and his wife are seeking an unspecified amount in damages. Jenner is now facing three lawsuits related to the collision.

Actor Robert Loggia died Friday at his home in Los Angeles due to complications from Alzheimer's. He was 85. Loggia appeared in comedies (Big, a trio of Pink Panther movies) and dramas, like An Officer and a Gentleman, Lost Highway, and Jagged Edge, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. Loggia's supporting turn in Scarface also made him a favorite for gangster roles, including a recurring character on HBO's The Sopranos and a key voiceover role in the bestselling video game Grand Theft Auto 3.

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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.