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ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — The United States and its coalition partners will be able to use Turkish bases to launch air attacks against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq. American defense officials say Turkey has also agreed to train several thousand moderate Syrian rebels on Turkish soil. Meanwhile, intense fighting continues in Syria's border town of Kobani.
UNDATED (AP) — Federal officials want to know why a health worker that cared for a Liberian man who died at a Dallas hospital from Ebola last week contracted the virus herself. The White House says President Barack Obama has asked federal health officials to move as quickly as possible in investigating the apparent breach of infection control protocols at the hospital.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The state of Alaska will begin accepting marriage license applications from gay couples on Monday. A federal court judge on Sunday ruled the state's ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional. Five gay couples sued to overturn the ban. The state of Alaska intends to appeal the ruling.
BENSALEM, Pa. (AP) — A 20-year-old eastern Pennsylvania man is being charged with molesting a 6-year-old girl when he was just a child himself. The Bucks County Courier Times reports he was arraigned Friday on a felony sexual assault charge and released on bond. He's accused of sexual assaulting the girl starting in 2005, when he was just 11, and continued until 2007.
EMMITSBURG, Md. (AP) — More than 100 names of firefighters who were killed in the line of duty are being added to the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial in Maryland. Among the 107 honored at a ceremony on Sunday were 19 Arizona firefighters who died in a 2013 canyon fire and 10 first responders killed in a Texas fertilizer plant explosion last year.
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