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CAIRO (AP) — British and American intelligence officials are working to authenticate an Internet video that purportedly shows the beheading of British aid volunteer Alan Henning. It appears to be the fourth beheading by the extremist group Islamic State. A masked militant who speaks with a British accent appears to be the same person who appeared on three similar videos. He said the killing was carried out to avenge U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. He warns that American Peter Kassig will be killed. British Prime Minister David Cameron calls the terrorists barbaric and repulsive.
MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Hundreds of friends and family members have attended the funeral of a woman beheaded during an attack at an Oklahoma food processing plant. Prosecutors say Colleen Hufford was targeted by a co-worker who had been disciplined that morning for another woman's complaint. Suspect Alton Nolen could face the death penalty.
DALLAS (AP) — A hazardous-materials crew has been decontaminating the Dallas apartment where an Ebola patient stayed. The team collected bed sheets, towels and a mattress used by the infected man. Officials say a suitcase and other personal items were removed. A family that had contact with the patient remains in quarantine. In Washington, Obama administration health officials have urged calm over the single case.
PRINCETON, Ind. (AP) —President Barack Obama wants to show that the economy is on a roll. With rolls of steel behind him at a steel plant in Indiana, he said the U.S. is on pace for the strongest job growth since the 1990s. September's unemployment rate dropped to 5.9 percent.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Unusual but not unprecedented. That's what forecasters are saying about an extreme autumn heatwave in California. High temperatures are ranging from the low 100s in Southern California to the 90s in the normally more temperate San Francisco Bay Area. In the coastal city of Santa Maria, three hours north of Los Angeles, today's 100-degree reading tied a record for the date set in 1985. The heat wave is expected to peak tomorrow.
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