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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is rebutting a comment by the nation's top military officer that American ground troops may be needed to battle Islamic State forces in the Middle East if President Barack Obama's current strategy fails. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said he might make that suggestion if the current approach doesn't prevail. The president has initiated airstrikes but wants local troops to carry out combat missions.
WASHINGTON (AP) — American military aircraft have launched five attacks across Iraq today. The military says fighter aircraft carried out two airstrikes northwest of Irbil (ur-BEEL') and hit an armed truck and fighters. Three other airstrikes southwest of Baghdad hit anti-aircraft artillery, a truck and two boats on the Euphrates (yoo-FRAY'-teez) River that were resupplying the militants.
ATLANTA (AP) — President Barack Obama has ordered thousands of troops to West Africa to help build Ebola treatment centers and to train health care workers. The president says the outbreak, which has killed at least 2,400 people, could expand and create "profound economic, political and security implications" for everyone. He's called on other nations to quickly send helpers, supplies and money.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has enlisted a team of criminal justice researchers to study racial bias in law enforcement in five American cities. Attorney General Eric Holder says the experts will recommend strategies to improve relations between police and minorities. Holder says the three-year-study could become a "silver lining" from recent unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager.
CHICAGO (AP) — New research shows there are more American mid-sections than ever are going to pot. A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association says 54 percent of U.S. adults have abdominal obesity. That's up from 46 percent from a decade ago. People whose fat has settled mostly around their waistlines are known to run a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes and other obesity-related ailments.
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