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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign says the former secretary of state will testify on Oct. 22 before a House panel investigating the Benghazi, Libya, attack. But a committee spokesman says nothing is finalized. The probe into the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three others in 2012 has grown into a political fight over Clinton's emails and private computer server.
WASHINGTON (AP) —Turkey has the right to defend itself against terrorist attacks by Kurdish rebels. That's according to White House spokesman Alistair Baskey, who strongly condemns recent attacks on Turkey by the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, which the U.S. has designated a terrorist group. He emphasizes Ankara is a NATO ally. Turkey has recently started striking back at the rebels.
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — It appears John Houser was deeply troubled long before he shot 11 people in a Louisiana movie theater, but that didn't keep him from buying the gun he used. Despite a Georgia judge's 2008 order committing him to mental health treatment because he was a danger to himself and others, Houser was able to buy the gun at an Alabama pawn shop six years later.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Firefighters are hoping a cold front approaching the Northern Rockies will quell the hot and dry conditions hampering their efforts to contain a wildfire that's burning through Montana's Glacier National Park. The front is expected to sweep into the area Sunday, bringing cooler temperatures, rain and possibly snow at high elevations. But winds could also increase.
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A search is continuing in Yellowstone National Park for a seasonal worker from China. Park officials say the 21-year-old man disappeared on Thursday while swimming with two companions in the Yellowstone River in the park's northern section. He had been backpacking with four friends.
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