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UNDATED (AP) — A public funeral will be held Friday morning in Louisville, Kentucky, for boxing great Muhammad Ali, who died a week ago at age 74. But before the service, people are expected to line the streets of Louisville for the funeral procession, which will go past the Muhammad Ali Center, onto Muhammad Ali Boulevard and then to the neighborhood where Ali grew up. The procession ends at Cave Hill Cemetery, where there'll be a private burial.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Escalating violence in Afghanistan has prompted the White House to expand U.S. military authority to conduct airstrikes against the Taliban. But senior U.S. and defense officials say the 9,800 U.S. troops currently in Afghanistan will still not be involved in direct combat. Afghanistan has been struggling with a resurgent Taliban, especially in the south.
BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian Arab Red Crescent says it has delivered food aid to Daraya for the first time since the suburb of Damascus came under siege in 2012. The delivery came a week after the government allowed medical supplies into the suburb for the first time in nearly four years. The U.N. estimates that 4,000 to 8,000 people live in Daraya, which has been subject to a crippling government blockade since residents kicked out security forces in the early stages of the 2011 uprising against President Bashar Assad.
DALLAS (AP) — No arrests have been made after a 42-year-old man died after apparently being kidnapped at a gas station near the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. An airport spokesman says the unidentified man confronted several people trying to break into his rental car Thursday afternoon. The man was forced into another vehicle that drove off. He was found unconscious two miles away in Irving and died at a hospital.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett? It'll cost you at least a couple million. Buffet is auctioning off a private lunch on eBay, with the proceeds going to a San Francisco homeless charity. The weeklong auction that began Sunday will wrap up Friday night. Six of the past eight winners paid more than $2 million. Since 2000, Buffet has raised more than $20 million for the charity, the Glide Foundation.
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