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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Search crews aren't having any luck in locating wreckage from the plane with an unresponsive pilot that crashed off Jamaica's northeast coast yesterday. Jamaica's Coast Guard says debris spotted earlier has disappeared and "may have sunk." The small plane flew some 1,700 miles before crashing. An upstate New York real estate developer and his wife were aboard. Both were experienced pilots.
WASHINGTON (AP) —President Barack Obama's decision to delay any executive action on immigration until after November's congressional elections is drawing fire from immigration advocates. Frank Sharry of America's Voice says his group is "bitterly disappointed," accusing the president and Senate Democrats of choosing "politics over people."
DETROIT (AP) — Utility crews are working to restore electricity in parts of the upper Midwest after high winds from an evening storm downed more than 2,000 power lines. The Detroit area was hardest hit. DTE Energy said 312,000 Michigan customers still have no electricity. More than half of them are in Wayne County. DTE says full restoration will take "several days, at least into next week."
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — There's a new leader of Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels. A commander of al-Shabab says the group has selected Ahmad Umar, also known as Abu Ubaidah. The previous leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, was killed in a recent U.S. airstrike. Somalia's national security minister says there's credible intelligence that al-Shabab is planning revenge attacks.
BEIRUT (AP) — The mother of a Lebanese soldier held captive by the militant Islamic State group says photos posted online Saturday purporting to show her 20-year-old son's beheading appear to be real. He would be the second captive Lebanese soldier killed by the militants. The Syrian civil war has inflamed sectarian tensions between Lebanon's Sunnis and Shiites.
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