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WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are expected to turn up the heat on Secret Service Director Julia Pierson when she appears before them today. She'll be pressed to explain the high-profile security breach at the White House where a man jumped a fence and actually got into the building. One lawmaker says the man got much farther than has been acknowledged.
PARIS (AP) — France's interior minister is justifying the country's tough new anti-terrorism law by pointing to a spike this year in the number of French radicals joining extremists in Syria and Iraq. He says the figure has grown 74 percent this year, to about a thousand people. The law increases monitoring of French people suspected of joining extremist groups.
BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese army is about to get military assistance from Iran. A senior Iranian official says Tehran will supply equipment to be used in fighting Muslim extremist groups. Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, did not elaborate. The Lebanese army has been fighting Muslim militants near the border with Syria for the past two months.
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's leader is telling pro-democracy protesters they're wasting their time if they think China will back down from its decision to limit voting reforms in the Asian financial hub. The protesters have set a deadline of tomorrow, but the unequivocal statement from Leung (lee-ung) Chun-ying dashed hopes that the standoff can be resolved quickly through negotiations.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Today is the deadline for California Gov. Jerry Brown to act on a host of new bills, including a gun safety measure that would allow family members to petition judges to take away relatives' guns if the relatives are deemed to be dangerous. The bill's catalyst was a deadly rampage near the University of California, Santa Barbara that left six people dead and 13 wounded. Opponents say the bill would erode gun rights.
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