The couple, who also have a 2-year-old daughter, North, tried for months to conceive a baby before Kardashian West, 35, got pregnant. Their struggle was documented on the E! series, "Keeping Up With the Kardashians."
In May, Kardashian West announced that she and her rapper husband, 38, were expecting, though the pregnancy was difficult. She tweeted in early November that she'd gained 52 pounds and said "pregnancy is not for me."
"I'm really not complaining, I'm just being honest...I hate it," she said in an interview with E!. "[But] I do feel really blessed that I am pregnant and, at the end of the day, it is a million times worth it."
Last month, she revealed that her baby was breech, though after she underwent a procedure she described as "more painful than childbirth," he was moved into the proper position to deliver.
"It feels so good to not have the stress of thinking I need a C-section," she wrote. "I'm so thankful for my doctors!"
Kardashian West had been due to give birth around Christmas.
Official: Neighbor Purportedly Bought 'Assault-Style' Weapons Used in San Bernardino Rampage
An old neighbor of one of the San Bernardino shooters is believed to have purchased the “assault-style” rifles used in Wednesday’s massacre, a law enforcement official told ABC News today.
Overnight authorities raided the Riverside, California home of Enrique Marquez, who public records show lived next door to an old address of Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the San Bernardino killers, the official said. Police previously said that two handguns used in the attack were purchased by Farook and his wife-turned-accomplice Tashfeen Malik, but the other two guns – modified “assault-style” weapons -- had been purchased by an unidentified third party. The law enforcement official and a source close to the investigation told ABC News today the third party is suspected to be Marquez.
When ABC News visited the home linked to Marquez, a makeshift sign in the lawn said to keep off of the property.
The law enforcement news website TickleTheWire.com first reported Marquez as the alleged buyer. ABC News was unable to reach Marquez for comment for this report.
Republican Candidates Agree on Guns: 'We Stop Bad Guys by Using Our Guns'
The candidates in the crowded Republican field haven't been shy about taking potshots at one another, but today as they swarmed Iowa they showed unity over one issue -- guns.
Three days after 14 people were killed when a man and woman opened fire at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California -- the second mass shooting in less than a week -- the GOP candidates seemed to agree.
"We don't stop the bad guys by taking away our guns," Ted Cruz said. "We stop the bad guys by using our guns."
"If you are going to kill 15 people, do you think a control law is going to stop you?" said Rand Paul.
"A gun free zone is like meat to these animals," Donald Trump said, referring to bad guys.
The shooting, coming so soon after a gunman opened fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing three people, has heated up calls from Democrats for stricter gun control.
The issue also inspired the New York Times to run an editorial on its front page for the first time since 1920, saying the fact that civilians can purchase assault-type weapons "a moral outrage and a national disgrace."
Cruz repeated his lines from Friday that in the wake of the San Bernardino massacre and the attacks in Paris last month, the focus should be on radical Islamic terrorism and not on gun control.
Cruz showed that focus in a new TV ad airing in Iowa, in which he says, "Every Islamic extremist will know, if you wage jihad against us, you're signing your death warrant."
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Along with the call to arms against terrorists, came calls from Cruz, Trump and Ben Carson for tighter restrictions on immigration.
Because alleged San Bernardino shooter Tafsheen Malik entered the United States last year on a K-1 visa -- the so-called "fiancee" visa -- Trump told ABC News today that he would consider shutting the program down.
"If people come in and the blow up people and they shoot people and they kill people, I don't rule out anything," he said. "We're going to have to start looking at people very closely because we cannot allow this to happen in our country."
Last year, 35,000 foreign fiances received K-1 visas and were admitted to the U.S. for marriage, according to the State Department. All underwent background checks and face-to-face interviews in a process that must be initiated by a U.S. citizen and takes months.
But Carson said the fact that Malik was able to pass through that system without being flagged indicates the process is flawed.
"That vetting resulted in missing someone who could carry out such a horrendous crime, that should be the end of the argument right there," he said
Carson said it was also reason to end acceptance of Syrian refugees.
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton said she was also concerned, telling Iowans something should be done to strengthen the vetting of visa applicants.
"Visas are a problem and we have to look at that and see what we need to do to tighten up requirements and do better," she said.
Sister of San Bernardino Shooter Hopes to Give Orphaned Niece 'Stable Upbringing'
The older sister of Syed Farook, one of the suspected shooters in Wednesday’s deadly San Bernardino rampage, said she and her husband hope to adopt the 6-month-old baby girl left behind by her brother and his wife, who were both killed by police in a shootout.
Saira Khan, Farook's sister and Tashfeen Malik's sister-in-law, told ABC News she and her husband, Farhan Khan, could give the orphaned baby "a stable upbringing."
"For the time being, we want her to enjoy her innocence," Saira Khan told ABC News' Kayna Whitworth. "You know, we don't want her to know everything, but I think eventually she will find out probably on her own."
San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon told ABC News "federal authorities, in conjunction with the county's child protective services, took custody of that child, and at some point in the next week, they will have a dependency hearing in the County of San Bernardino to determine where, ultimately, that child will live, at least in the short term."
The Khans, who have a 2-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy of their own, told ABC News they hope to have their niece by Monday.
Syed Farook's Sister Shocked by His Wife's Alleged ISIS Support
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Malik, 29, who is from Pakistan but had lived in Saudi Arabia, came to the U.S. last summer on a "fiancé" visa and later obtained a Green Card, U.S. officials have said. Malik married Farook, an American of Pakistani descent, in August 2014 and the couple had a baby daughter six months ago.
Malik and Farook unleashed a deadly attack in San Bernardino on Wednesday, killing 14 people and injuring another 21, an act now being investigated as terrorism.
In the last 21 months, at least 71 people in the U.S. were charged with ISIS-related activities, including 10 women, according to authorities. Some have been mothers, like Malik.
"They're prioritizing martyrdom above all other aspects of their life, including raising a family," Audrey Alexander, a fellow with the George Washington University program on extremism, told ABC News' Martha Raddatz.
"It’s harder for us to understand, especially knowing that he was our brother and he was so happy with her," Saira Khan said. "How can he leave his only child, you know? And how could the mother do this?"
Saira Khan called Wednesday's deadly shooting "horrific," and to the victims, she said, "We can’t begin to imagine what they’re going through."
"We feel for them," she said.
New Photo, Details Emerge About Woman Shooter in San Bernardino Killings
Just hours after the public got its first look at Tashfeen Malik, a new photo and some new information emerged overnight about the background of the female San Bernardino, Calif. shooter, a mother-turned-killer who officials increasingly believe was the mastermind of the horrific attack.
The photograph, taken from around the time of Malik’s college days in Pakistan between 2007 and 2012, is the second that has become public. Friday evening ABC News published the first, and in both the young woman has her hair covered and looks unsmiling into the camera.
Law enforcement officials told ABC News that while there is no hard evidence that Malik was the leader of a terrorist conspiracy, she is increasingly becoming the focus of investigators as the shooting’s possible “mastermind.” Her purported skill in wielding one of the assault-style weapons, for instance, led counter-terrorism analysts to assess that she “had some training.”
Investigators are also examining any possible digital footprint from the couple, attempting in part to determine if Farook had any social media connection to a known American ISIS recruiter named Mohamed Hasan who uses the online handle “Miski,” federal authorities said today. Originally from Minneapolis, Minn., the FBI fugitive is thought to be living overseas. He was previously linked to a failed ISIS-inspired plot in Texas this May.
Tashfeen Malik: Born in Pakistan, Grows Up in Saudi Arabia, Kills in America
Tashfeen Malik was born in Pakistan, but moved to Saudi Arabia when she was just four years old, according to an official close to the Saudi Arabian government. Overnight a family friend of the Maliks in Pakistan told ABC News her father, Gulzar Malik, was an engineer who spent most of his career in Saudi Arabia. He was known for helping the poor and building a mosque in his neighborhood, the family friend said. He was also an ultra-conservative Salafist Sunni who held strong anti-Shia views.
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Tashfeen Malik moved back to Pakistan at least by 2007, attended Bahuddin Zakri University in Multan and stayed until 2012, according to a Pakistani intelligence official. She was said to be a brilliant student and was not known to have religious or political affiliation while there.
When it comes to how Tashfeen Malik met Syed Rizwan Farook, her future U.S.-born husband and killer accomplice, the family friend provided new but conflicting information. Friday an attorney for Farook’s family said that the couple met on a dating website, a version of events that Malik purportedly gave to U.S. consular officials when applying for a visa in 2014, according to a U.S. government document obtained by ABC News. U.S. officials had said it’s possible the couple met in Saudi Arabia in 2013, but it’s certain that after Farook took a nine-day trip to Saudi Arabia in July 2014, he returned to the U.S. with Malik in tow. They were married in the eyes of U.S. law a month later.
But the family friend, who said he’s known the Malik family for years, said Malik and Farook were first connected by family, rather than the internet. He told ABC News that a relative of Farook’s father worked with Malik’s father and that Farook and Malik may have met as early as 2009.
A step-aunt of Malik’s in Pakistan told The Associated Press she understood Malik had grown to be more zealous in her faith over the last three years, changing from western clothes to the hijab and more conservative burka. However, the woman also said she had never actually met Malik and that her immediate family and Malik’s were not on speaking terms. A professor at the college Malik attended until 2012 told The Washington Post he remembered her wearing a “complete veil” and being a “religious-minded student.”
Malik came to the U.S. in 2014 on what is known as a “fiancé” visa, which allows an American fiancé to petition for his or her partner’s temporary entry before marriage. Malik received her Green Card this summer, U.S. officials said.
Six months ago, the couple had a baby daughter and named her according to a naming convention more common to Arab families, rather than in the typical Pakistani manner.
How Malik purportedly became radicalized enough to post the alleged pledge of allegiance to ISIS and help kill more than a dozen people in a quiet California town is still a mystery.
Investigators are also still puzzling over Malik’s exact role ahead of the San Bernardino shooting -- whether she may have radicalized Farook, whether it was the other way around, or whether this was an act of radicalism at all.
“I don’t know the answer, whether she influenced him or not. Being a husband myself, we’re all influenced to an extent. But I don’t know the answer,” FBI Special Agent David Bowdich told reporters Friday.
In addition to Malik’s suspected “training,” an online dating profiled set up by Farook years ago indicated he too had experience with firearms -- among his hobbies, he listed shooting "target practice."
The FBI announced Friday it was treating the investigation as one into an “act of terrorism,” but no official motive has been determined.
An official close to the Saudi Arabian government said that Saudi intelligence officials did not have Malik on any of their watch lists and she did not appear to have any link to extremists in the region. Neither Malik or Farook were on the FBI’s radar in the U.S., officials said.
Friday lawyers for the Farook family cast doubt on the reports of the ISIS pledge and said that there hasn’t been any real evidence that the couple has any “extremist tendencies.”
“None of the family knew of him as being extreme, aggressive or having any extreme religious views,” one of the attorneys said.
The other noted that Malik was very soft-spoken and conservative -- so much that Farook's brothers never saw her face, due to the full burqa she always wore in public.
As the FBI continues to investigate, Nada Bakos, a former CIA analyst, told ABC News she would not be surprised if Malik had been ISIS-inspired. “Terrorism is not gender-specific,” she said.
A recent report by George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Securitysaid that of the 71 individuals arrested in the U.S. since March 2014 with purported ties to ISIS, 10 were female.
Bakos, whose work with the CIA concentrated on al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the precursor to ISIS, told ABC News she often tracked female extremists for the Agency and noted that AQI infamously used a female suicide bomber in a failed suicide attack in Jordan in 2005 – the woman had hidden a bomb under her dress, but it failed to detonate.
“Men don’t have a monopoly on terrorism or conducting violent acts,” she said. “At this point, in the evolution of terrorism, it wouldn’t be surprising to see a woman take an operational role.”
Malik, 29, and Farook, 28, were killed Wednesday in a shootout with police less than two miles from the mass murders at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino. After news broke of Malik’s alleged pseudonymous pledge to ISIS’s leader, a media group affiliated with ISIS released audio and text statements hailing the two as “soldiers of the Caliphate” and “supporters,” but the terror group did not take responsibility for playing any operational role in the attack and today only mentioned it in the audio message as part of a kind of news roundup.
San Bernardino Shooting: 'Remarkable' How Many People Escaped, Police Chief Says
The San Bernardino shooters trapped their victims inside the building so well that it's "remarkable" how many escaped alive, the San Bernardino police chief said today.
When suspected shooters Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik entered the room at the Inland Regional Center and started firing, "they came through the two doors that kind of flanked both sides of the room," San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan told ABC News.
"The only path of escape, really, for the folks in the room, was into a hallway on the other side. So they really had people pinned in," Burguan said.
"It's remarkable to think there were upwards of 70-plus people in that room when this happened," Burguan said. "The casualties are a tragedy. Our hearts go out to them. But the fact that so many people did escape is remarkable."
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Fourteen people were killed during the massacre, which is now being investigated as an act of terrorism.
Some 21 people were also injured in the married couple's attack, authorities said, which took place during a holiday party and training event for the San Bernardino County Health Department.
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