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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will address the nation this week about his strategy to defeat the Islamic State militants. He tells NBC that he wants Americans to understand the nature of the threat and how their government is going to deal with it. Obama is scheduled to meet with congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday and deliver the speech the following day.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the U.S. military will be helping set up isolation units and equipment in West Africa and providing security for public health workers arriving there from around the world to fight the spread of the Ebola virus. Obama tells NBC the current Ebola outbreak is a U.S. national security priority but it's going to be a long and difficult task to contain it.
PUNA, Hawaii (AP) — The hot lava flowing from Hawaii's active volcano is quickening its creep toward a sparsely populated neighborhood. Authorities say the lava has flowed about 200 yards since Saturday. But they say residents on the Big Island don't have to evacuate but should prepare to do so. They say there's no immediate threat. The nearest homes are about a mile away.
CHICAGO (AP) — Accomplished Chicago theater actress Molly Glynn, who also played a recurring role as a doctor on the TV series "Chicago Fire," has died after a tree fell and struck her during a storm. She was 46. The executive director of First Folio Theatre and a family friend say Glynn was riding her bicycle with her husband in a forest park north of Chicago on Friday when it happened.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County Coroner's Department says the girl group singer Simone Battle committed suicide by hanging. The ruling today comes two days after the 25-year-old singer was found dead in her West Hollywood home. Battle performed on the TV show "X Factor." Her five-member band G.R.L. had been signed by mega-hit maker Dr. Luke.
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