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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is offering Iraq $200 million in humanitarian aid to help those displaced by Islamic State militants. Obama spoke as he met in the Oval Office with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (HY'-dahr ahl ah-BAH'-dee). The president said Iraqi forces are getting better equipped and trained since al-Abadi's election seven months ago. He says Iraq and a U.S.-led coalition have recovered about one-fourth of the territory the Islamic State had captured in the country. However, Obama says the process of pushing back the militant group will be a long one.
CAIRO (AP) — Yemen's al-Qaida branch says its top cleric has been killed in a drone attack. Ibrahim al-Rubaish was a Saudi-national who has had a $5 million bounty on his head. The al-Qaida group isn't saying where Sunday's attack took place. And U.S. and Yemeni officials haven't commented. Al-Rubaish was released from Guantanamo Bay in 2006, after which he joined al-Qaida in Yemen. He was considered the group's main ideologue.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton has been chatting with voters today at a coffee house in the Mississippi River town of LeClaire, Iowa. She's headed later to a round-table discussion with students and teachers at a community college. The coffee shop visit was the first event in Clinton's return to presidential politics, and sticks with her strategy to hold small "retail" style events that allow her to speak to individual voters. She doesn't plan to hold a large kickoff rally for several weeks.
GOLDSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Police say they are investigating yesterday's fatal shooting of a North Carolina community college worker as a possible hate crime. They're not saying just what type of hate crime is being investigated. But the supervisor of the shooting victim says the man was gay. Police say Kenneth Stancil entered a campus print shop where he used to work in a work-study program, and killed Ron Lane with a shotgun. Stancil was captured early today on a beach in Florida.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee police say they've identified a suspect in the fatal shooting of two people at the scene of a traffic accident that killed a toddler. They say they're still looking for that man. Authorities say Archie Brown was fatally shot after the van he was driving struck and killed a two-year-old boy outside a home Sunday. The child's 15-year-old brother was also struck by gunfire at the scene and died later at a hospital.
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