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Turkey shot down a Russian SU-24 warplane that had crossed its border for the briefest of moments.  "They were in Turkish airspace only two to three seconds, a matter of seconds" before the Turkish F-16s attacked, an unnamed Pentagon official told America's NBC News.  The video shows the Sukhoi jet plunging in flames before crashing behind a line of mountains.  The parachutes of the pilots follows, both men seemingly alive.  But Syrian rebels released video of them firing at the parachutes, and the Kremlin acknowledges the two men are dead - one of the Sukoi's pilots, and a pilot involved in the rescue mission.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called it a "stab in the back by terrorist helpers" in the Turkish government.  Putin is threatening Turkey with "serious consequences", and accusing Turkey of turning a blind eye to Islamic State's activities along and inside its borders, including the sale of petroleum on the black market.  Russia has conducted nearly two months of airstrikes against Islamic State separatists in Syria to support its key ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.  The US and NATO are backing their allies in Ankara, but President Barack Obama is also encouraging all parties to take steps to "discourage any escalation".

Just so we're clear, this is a Really Big Deal:  This is the first NATO downing of a Russian or Soviet plane since the 1950s.

Meanwhile, the US released video of its jets bombing Islamic state gasoline trucks.  Which leads to the question, "Why does Islamic State still have gasoline trucks?"

French President Francois Hollande met with President Barack Obama at the White House, and they pledged to fight terrorism.

Gunmen have taken a number of hostages in Roubaix, a town in northern France near the Belgian border.  Shots have been fired and several people are reportedly wounded.  But it appears to be linked to a bank robbery, and not to the ongoing security situation in France following the 13 November terrorist attacks.

Tunisia has declared a state of emergency after an explosion killed twelve people on a bus in Tunis.  The vehicle was carrying members of the Presidential Security Guard.  Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a state of emergency throughout the country and curfew in the capital city; later on TV he said, "I want to reassure the Tunisian people that we will vanquish terrorism."

A white Chicago police officer is charged with First Degree Murder in the death of a 17-year old African-American boy last year.  Prosecutors say Jason Van Dyke was not justified in shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.  The city is bracing for the release of the police car's dashcam video, which reportedly shows Van Dyke unloaded 16 shots into the kid - images so inflammatory that the victim's family and city officials worry that they will provoke civil unrest.

Police in cold and frozen Minnesota have arrested two men in a clearly racist shooting attack on a #Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis.  Five people were wounded by gunfire at the rally, which is calling for an end to police violence against the Black Community.  Cops arrested a 23-year-old white man and a 32-year-old white Hispanic man in the attack.  It's not clear if the arrests are related to video posted on 4Chan, which purportedly shows white supremacist scum bringing weapons to the scene of a black lives matter rally.

A 15-year old boy in Liberia is dead, less than a week after being diagnosed with Ebola.  The country had been free of new infections for three months; but the boy's father and brother are also being treated for the deadly virus.  More than 11,300 people have died in the West African Ebola Epidemic since December 2013.