Boehner: US shouldn't talk to Iran about Iraq...Libya protests capture...Teen stowaway speaks out

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) says the United States should not be talking to Iran about a joint effort to help the Iraqi government battle insurgents who have been overrunning large swaths of that country. He says reaching out to Iran would be the wrong message to send U.S. allies in the Middle East, where Iran is alleged to have sponsored terrorism. Boehner and other congressional leaders are meeting at the White House this afternoon with President Barack Obama to get a briefing from him on the situation in Iraq. The speaker says he wants Obama to describe his strategy for helping the Iraqi government.

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya's government is demanding the right to try Ahmed Abu Khattala (hah-TAH'-lah) in Libya, and under Libyan laws. The government in Tripoli is denying that it knew in advance that U.S. special forces were going to capture Abu Khattala over the weekend. The United States accuses him of involvement in the attack on the consulate in Benghazi that killed four Americans. He's now on a U.S. Navy vessel, headed for the United States to face trial.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says his forces are searching for the three Israeli teens missing in the West Bank. And he's criticizing their abductors -- who, in his words, "want to destroy us." Abbas says that once the kidnappers are found, his government will "settle accounts with them." The teens disappeared last week and Israel has blamed the Islamic militant Hamas for their apparent abduction. Israel has carried out mass arrests of Hamas activists in response.

NEW YORK (AP) — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it has opened two new investigations into Chrysler over complaints that the ignition key could shut the engine off and cause air bags not to deploy in a crash. The investigations cover about 1.2 million vehicles. The agency says it has received at least 32 complaints from drivers who say the ignition key of 2006-2007 Jeep Commander and 2005-2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee vehicles turned off after they accidentally hit it with their knees. The second probe is related to Chrysler's recall of 2010 Dodge Journey, Grand Caravan and Chrysler Town & Country vehicles for a similar issue.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A teenager who survived a trip from California to Hawaii as a stowaway in a plane's wheel well says he hopped on the closest flight that was going west in an effort to find his birth mother, and can't believe he survived the journey. Fifteen-year-old Yahye Abdi spoke over Google Chat to San Francisco TV station KPIX in his first public comments since the flight. The Somali immigrant had run away from his Santa Clara home and hopped a fence the San Jose airport. He says he spoke to his mother in Africa by phone yesterday for the first time. He hasn't seen her since he was seven.

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