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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama addresses the nation tonight, outlining how he wants to combat militants in Syria and Iraq. Obama will ask Congress to give him authority to arm moderate Syrian opposition forces fighting President Bashar Assad. And administration officials say Obama could also plan for wide-ranging airstrikes in Iraq and possibly Syria.
BAGHDAD (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is in Baghdad for the first high-level U.S. meeting with Iraq's new prime minister. Kerry will urge Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to take quick steps to ease sectarian tensions in the Shiite-majority nation. Kerry also will offer help in fighting the Sunni-dominated Islamic State militancy that has overrun parts of northern Iraq and Syria.
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A man convicted in a 1998 robbery and double murder in Columbia, Missouri, has been put to death by lethal injection. Earl Ringo Jr., was pronounced dead shortly after 12:30 a.m. today. He's the eighth person executed in the state this year. Ringo and an accomplice killed a delivery driver and manager trainee at a Ruby Tuesday restaurant.
CAMDEN, Ala. (AP) — Police say a father has led them to the bodies of his five children whom he's accused of killing. Police say Timothy Ray Jones allegedly killed his children in South Carolina and then drove to Alabama, where the bodies, individually wrapped in plastic bags, were dumped on a dirt road. Authorities say Jones then fled to Mississippi. That's where he's in jail awaiting extradition to South Carolina.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Student loan debt can follow some people into retirement. A Government Accountability Office report says in 2010, 4 percent of Americans ages 65 to 74 still owed money on federal student loans. Eighty percent of that number owed money on their own loans, and 20 percent were loans they took out for their children. The report says the number of older Americans who have money taken out of their Social Security checks to pay on their student loan debt has increased about fivefold from 2002 to 2013.
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