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BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say today's airstrikes led by the United States in Syria included one that hit a grain silo and reportedly killed civilians. It was among the air raids targeting towns and villages in northern and eastern Syria controlled by the Islamic State group.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israel's prime minister says it's hypocritical for nations to support the campaign against the Islamic State militants by the U.S. and other countries, but to oppose Israel's fight against the Hamas rulers in Gaza. Speaking to the U.N. today, Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas and the Islamic State group are "branches of the same poisonous tree."

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The nation's largest tobacco companies don't want to go along with a court order that requires them to run advertisements saying they lied about the dangers of smoking. A judge ruled several years ago that the companies concealed the dangers of smoking for decades -- and the judge has since ordered them to pay for those statements in various ads in newspapers, on TV, on websites and on inserts in cigarette packs. They filed a court brief today arguing that the corrective statements would require them to "shame and humiliate themselves" and label themselves as liars.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A report by federal investigators says IRS workers are often not doing all the research they are supposed to do to track down people with unpaid tax bills. The study doesn't estimate how much money that costs the government. But it says that in 2012, the IRS declared $6.7 billion in unpaid taxes to be uncollectable because it couldn't find the taxpayer.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, says he can't offer massive tax breaks that the owner of the Trump Taj Mahal and prospective owner Carl Icahn are demanding to keep the casino open. The mayor says the city's finances are too stressed. Billionaire Icahn is considering spending $100 million to save the Taj Mahal casino from closing.

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