Obama Says ‘No Connection’ Among NY, NJ, Minnesota Attacks

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President Obama said that the government sees “no connection” among separate weekend attacks in New York, New Jersey, and Minnesota that left dozens wounded, as authorities apprehended an individual Monday morning in connection to the bombing-related incidents in the Northeast.

Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, was taken into custody following a shootout with law enforcement in Linden, N.J., two days after 22-year-old Dahir A. Adan, who stabbed nine people in a Minnesota mall, was fatally shot by an off-duty police officer.

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