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President Barack Obama urged Americans to stay calm and vigilant, using an address from the Oval Office on Sunday night to reassure the nation that that his approach to fighting Islamic extremism is working both at home and abroad.

Aides said the address was aimed at calming fears stirred by recent terrorist attacks in Paris and California. The threat of terrorism has evolved in recent years, Obama said, now focusing less on complicated scenarios like 9/11 and more on simple shooting rampages. But U.S. officials are taking steps to address it.

"The threat from terrorism is real, but we will overcome it,'' the president said.

The speech was only the third of Obama's presidency from the Oval Office and the first in his second term. It came four days after a radicalized couple shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, claiming inspiration from ISIL, and three weeks after a series of ISIL-directed terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.

Federal officials have described the San Bernardino massacre as the most deadly terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.

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