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WASHINGTON (AP) — A report produced by Senate investigators concludes that CIA interrogators used sleep deprivation, waterboarding, slapping, slamming and death threats against captives in so-called "black sites" following 9/11. Senate Intelligence Committee head Dianne Feinstein says detainees were "tortured." The summary also says there is documentation that the tactics didn't produce any unique or life-saving intelligence.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — President Barack Obama is trying to reassure immigrants that if they register under his new executive action they won't be a priority for deportation in the future. Some participants at a town hall meeting asked what happens if they sign up and the next president ends the program. Obama said he's confident they will be able to stay in the country with their children.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The parents of another first-grader killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 have filed court documents that could pave the way for a wrongful death lawsuit. The parents of James Mattioli filed the forms in a Connecticut probate court, joining parents of 10 other children killed at the Newtown school. Sunday is the second anniversary of the school shooting in which 20 children and six adults were killed.
NEW YORK (AP) — The United Nations says enough treatment facilities will be operating in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea by the end of January to ensure that the number of new cases starts dropping in the three worst-affected countries. Sierra Leone said last Friday that between 80 and 100 new cases of Ebola are being reported every day and it needs more than 1,000 beds to treat victims.
NEW YORK (AP) — Joan Rivers' daughter has been left in charge of her fortune in a revocable trust. Melissa Rivers is named the executor and has "the broadest and most absolute permissible direction" over a fortune estimated as high as $150 million. Rivers died Sept. 4 of brain damage due to lack of oxygen. She'd stopped breathing during an endoscopy days earlier. She was 81 years old.
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