The GOP is still grumbling about that debate. Get a closer look at the biker shootout. And China considers a big change.
It’s Friday, and here are five things to know for your new day.
CAMPAIGN 2016
Debate debacle: Criticizing debates and debate moderators isn’t enough for GOP candidates. Now the campaigns are going after the Republican National Committee, the group in charge of setting up the debates. The campaigns reportedly will meet this weekend to talk about ripping control of the debates away from the committee. Show your hands. Who would love to be a fly on the wall at that meeting?
ISIS
Jihadist rapper: “Deso Dogg” is dead. That was the rap name of ISIS recruit Denis Cuspert (also known as Abu Talha al-Almani), who traveled to Syria in 2012 to fight for ISIS. He had taken on a prominent propaganda role with the terrorists, often appearing in ISIS videos. Before hooking up with ISIS, Cuspert was part of the rap scene in Berlin. He was killed earlier this month in a U.S. airstrike.
SYRIA
Not a game: Want to go to the Middle East and mix it up with ISIS? Just remember its nothing like “Call of Duty.” So says Randy Roberts, a former U.S. soldier who fights ISIS alongside Kurdish fighters in Syria. He’s one of dozens of Westerners who have traveled to Syria and Iraq to battle the terrorist group. Roberts — called “Red” by his friends — said ISIS’ “mass slaughter of innocent people” motivated him to join the fight.
TEXAS BIKER SHOOTOUT
A look inside: 480 weapons. That’s how much firepower was involved in May’s biker shootout in Waco, Texas, that left nine people dead. CNN obtained thousands of pages of documents — police reports, crime scene photos and witness interviews — along with surveillance video to get a clearer picture of what happened that day in May. More than five months later, no one has been charged in the deaths of the nine bikers.
CHINA CHILD POLICY
Changes: China’s controversial “one-child” policy has been the law in the country for decades, then yesterday, the ruling Communist Party announced it will soon allow couples to have two children. Why the change? Two words: aging population. Not everyone is impressed, though Amnesty International said the proposed change is not enough and governments shouldn’t be involved in things like this anyway. “The state has no business regulating how many children people have,” an Amnesty International researcher said.