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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's governor is taking the Obama administration to court over education standards. A suit Gov. Bobby Jindal plans to file today says federal grant policy "effectively forces states down a path toward a national curriculum" in violation of the Constitution and other federal laws. Jindal calls it a big government effort to strip away state rights.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The National Hurricane Center in Miami says the Eastern Seaboard will probably be spared a collision with Hurricane Cristobal but not from life-threatening surf and rip current conditions. Cristobal is moving slowly toward Bermuda after drenching Atlantic and Caribbean islands with heavy rains, causing flooding that officials blamed for at least five deaths.
NEW HOPE, Minn. (AP) — A U.S. official says investigators are still trying to learn more about the death of an American man believed to have been killed in Syria while fighting alongside extremist militants, most likely the Islamic State group. The official says investigators were aware that Douglas McAuthur McCain was in Syria, but not too much else. They don't yet have his body.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Officials say unsuccessful Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah's withdrawal from an audit of the disputed election throws what has already been a lengthy and contentious process into further turmoil. Abdullah says he pulled his observers out of concerns about fraud he says are not being addressed in the audit of eight million ballots. A U.N. official confirms a "temporary pause" in the audit.
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — In Ivory Coast, there's a different twist on the ice bucket challenge as part of a campaign to raise awareness about Ebola prevention in West Africa. A bucket of soapy water replaces the ice. "Lather Against Ebola" is intended to educate the public about the disease, which is spread through contact with bodily fluids and can be partly contained by simple measures like regular hand-washing.
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