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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the U.S. and its partners will "do what's necessary" to take the fight to the Islamic State group. Military officials say the U.S. and five Arab nations made more than 200 airstrikes against roughly a dozen targets in Syria. Acting alone, U.S. planes also targeted al-Qaida veterans known as the Khorasan Group, based in northwestern Syria.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Anti-terror officials say airstrikes in Syria in the past 24 hours may have temporarily disrupted attack planning against U.S. or Western targets. A Joint Intelligence Bulletin from the FBI and Homeland Security Department also warns that the military offensive may also embolden the al-Qaida-linked Khorasan and Islamic State groups.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Barack Obama says the climate is changing faster than efforts to address global warming. Obama, speaking at a U.N. summit on climate change, said the U.S. will do its part, but he adds that no nation gets a free pass. He says the U.S. will meet its goal to cut carbon pollution 17 percent by 2020, compared to 2005 levels.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — If approved as financed, one of the country's largest wind farms will be opened just north of Cheyenne, Wyoming. The $8 billion project is being proposed by four companies and would include a huge energy storage site in a Utah salt formation and a 525-mile electric transmission line connecting them. The goal is to provide power in Southern California. One backer calls the project "the 21st century's Hoover Dam."
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama pastor says a man who killed two former co-workers at a UPS warehouse today in Birmingham, Alabama, was "troubled" about his work and financial situation. Officials say the shooter had been fired yesterday. The victims were a supervisor and another worker.
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