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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah judge has reversed his decision to take a baby away from her lesbian foster parents and place her with a heterosexual couple. After a widespread backlash, court officials today released an order signed by the judge that will allow the 9-month-old baby to stay with the foster parents. The judge had reportedly cited research that shows children do better when raised by heterosexual families. However, the American Psychological Association has said there's no scientific basis for concluding that gay couples are unfit parents.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pentagon spokesman says officials are "reasonably certain" they have killed the Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John" with a Hellfire missile fired from a drone. Spokesman Steve Warren says the operation was one in a string of targeted attacks on Islamic State leaders, and that the U.S. has killed one mid-to-upper-level Islamic State figure every two days since May. He says the world is better off without "Jihadi John," a British man who is believed to have beheaded several Western hostages.
LONDON (AP) — The family of an American journalist who was beheaded by the Islamic State fighter known as "Jihadi John" said a U.S. drone strike targeting the extremist provides little comfort. Diane and John Foley of New Hampshire, the parents of James Foley, say in a statement that the U.S. should spend as much effort finding and rescuing hostages as it does hunting down extremists. James Foley was abducted in Syria on Thanksgiving Day 2012 and not heard from again until a video showing his killing was posted online in August of 2014.
FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump isn't backing away from his criticism of rival Ben Carson's biography after a highly charged speech last night. Trump's campaign released a video today that continues to question Carson's account of trying to stab a friend when he was young. It asks, "Violent criminal? Or pathological liar?" And it goes on to say, "We don't need either as president." Carson has closed in on Trump's early lead in many polls.
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas county that's been sued by the family of a black woman who died in the county jail last summer says she killed herself because she was despondent over her relatives' refusal to quickly bail her out. That assertion is in a court motion asking that the lawsuit by relatives of Sandra Bland be dismissed. The family disputes a medical examiner's finding of suicide. Bland's death came amid heightened national scrutiny of police and their dealings with black suspects.
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