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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to tell the American people tonight that the U.S. will use airstrikes to take out Islamic State fighters "wherever they exist." In his address this evening, Obama will lay out his plan to deepen the U.S. military role in the Middle East. In excerpts released in advance, Obama says the U.S. will lead a broad coalition to degrade and then destroy the Islamic State, which has seized territory in both Iraq and Syria.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The NFL continues to maintain no one in the league offices possessed or saw the video showing Ray Rice punching his then-fiancee before Monday. However, a law enforcement official tells The Associated Press he sent a copy of it to an NFL executive five months ago. In a voicemail the official received from an NFL office number in April, a female voice confirms the video arrived and says: "You're right. It's terrible." The law enforcement official spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected last-minute appeals from a Texas death row inmate. It clears the way for Willie Trottie's execution more than two decades after he was convicted of slaying his former common-law wife and her brother. Trottie has acknowledged shooting 24-year-old Barbara Canada and her 28-year-old brother, Titus, at their parents' Houston home in 1993. Trottie maintained the shootings were accidental and in self-defense.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.N. scientific panel is reporting a rare piece of good news about the health of the planet. It says Earth's protective ozone layer is beginning to recover, largely because of the phase-out since the 1980s of chlorofluorocarbons — chemicals used in refrigerants and aerosol cans. The ozone shields the planet from solar radiation that causes skin cancer, crop damage and other problems.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists say an extreme solar flare could knock power grids offline, interfere with satellites and radio transmissions. Forecasters at the Space Weather Prediction Center don't yet know when the solar storm will reach Earth and which part of the planet will be facing the sun and bear the brunt of the effects. It could be as early as tomorrow morning, or it might take a few days.
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