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CANADENSIS, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania authorities aren't saying whether they believe they have surrounded a self-taught survivalist sought in the shooting death of a state trooper and the wounding of another. Roads are closed in the area of northeast Pennsylvania in the Pocono mountains where 31-year-old Eric Frein (freen) lived with his parents. Residents have been asked to stay indoors and others have been asked to stay out of the area.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An uninvited guest prompted a brief evacuation at the White House after a man who jumped the fence actually made it through the front door. The unarmed man was apprehended there. President Barack Obama had departed the White House just minutes earlier. It's likely to shine a new spotlight on the Secret Service, an agency whose storied history has been marred in recent years by multiple allegations of misconduct by officers.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey hasn't elaborated on what it did to secure the release of 49 hostages by the Islamic State militant group. The state-run Anadolu Agency reports no ransom had been paid and "no conditions were accepted in return for their release." The hostages were seized at the Turkish Consulate when the militants overran Mosul, Iraq, in its surge to seize large swaths of Iraq and Syria.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A storm that brought torrential monsoon rains which flooded much of the Philippine capital has gained strength again as it batters the country's northernmost provinces. Disaster officials say that more than 700,000 people were affected by Tropical Storm Fung-Wong in metropolitan Manila and in northern and central provinces, forcing more than 205,000 to evacuate. At least five people died.
PLACERVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A massive Northern California wildfire continues to burn explosively due to drought conditions so severe that record-breaking amounts of fire retardants are being dropped. Retardant is used as an initial attack tool on wildfires to buy time for crews to get to the scene and dig fire lines, but the fire activity is so extreme it's pushing through their lines. about 60 miles east of Sacramento. Some 2,800 people have evacuated and multiple structures have burned.
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