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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is revealing that President Barack Obama sent special operations forces to Syria this summer on a secret mission to rescue American hostages held by Islamic State extremists, including journalist James Foley. Officials say intelligence agencies believed they had identified the location where the hostages were being held, but dropped by aircraft into Syria did not find them at that location and engaged in a firefight with Islamic State militants before departing.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after Islamic State militants released a video showing the beheading of journalist James Foley and threatened to kill a second American hostage, U.S. airstrikes against them continued. U.S. officials say the 14 strikes were in the area of the Mosul Dam and were aimed at helping Iraqi and Kurdish forces create a buffer zone at the key facility. President Barack Obama vows the U.S. will be "relentless" in pursuit of the terrorist group.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder is spending the day in suburban St. Louis in a series of meetings related to the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown and the unrest it's triggered in Ferguson, including a sit-down with Brown's parents. Holder has pledged experience federal officials will independently investigate whether there were any civil rights violations connected to Brown's death. Brown was black and the officer who shot him is white.
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has now killed more than 1,350 people. The death toll is rising most quickly in Liberia, where more than a third of the fatalities have occurred. Today, riot police and soldiers acting on their president's orders used scrap wood and barbed wire to seal off 50,000 people inside a slum in the capital in an effort to contain the outbreak, prompting angry clashes with residents.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The admiral in charge of the Navy's nuclear reactors program tells The Associated Press that at least 34 sailors are being kicked out of the Navy for their roles in a cheating ring that operated undetected for at least seven years at a nuclear power training site at Charleston, South Carolina. He says 10 others are under criminal investigation. That's more than was known when the Navy announced in February that it had discovered the cheating.
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