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WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say the United States is prepared to increase the number of refugees it resettles by 5,000 next year. That word comes as European countries struggle to accommodate tens of thousands of refugees from the Middle East and Africa. The officials say Secretary of State John Kerry told members of Congress in a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill that the United States will boost its worldwide quota for resettling refugees from 70,000 to 75,000 next year. A fraction of those refugees would be from Syria.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is urging its member countries to do more to share the burden of refugees flooding into the continent. But the numbers being talked about are small compared with the half million who have already arrived, and the hundreds of thousands who are on the way. And a number of Eastern European and Baltic countries are vowing to reject any kind of quotas.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A nuclear deal with Iran that seems unstoppable in Congress is blazing as an issue in the 2016 presidential campaign. At a Capitol Hill rally where he was joined by Donald Trump, Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz told tea party supporters and pro-Israel activists that the next president should rip the deal to shreds. And he offered the graphic prediction that "countless" Americans and Israelis will be murdered if the deal goes through. Earlier in the day, Hillary Rodham Clinton endorsed the deal even while warning Iran that, as president, she would not hesitate to use military action if Iran cheats.
CAIRO (AP) — The Islamic State group claims to be holding a Norwegian man and a Chinese consultant hostage and is demanding ransom for their release. The extremist group posted pictures of the two men wearing yellow prison outfits in the latest issue of its online magazine today. It does not say when or where the two were captured. The IS group controls large parts of Iraq and Syria. It has killed several captives in gruesome videos released online.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional hearings are under way into Planned Parenthood. And the Republican who heads the House Judiciary Committee says the investigation is aimed at protecting taxpayers from what he called the "horrors" suggested by secretly-recorded videos. They appeared to show group officials discussing the sale of tissue from aborted fetuses. But one Democratic lawmaker said the goal was to "smear Planned Parenthood."
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