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WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama addresses the U.N. General Assembly in a few weeks, he'll be pushing for other countries to do more to find homes for Syrian refugees in need of resettlement. And now, he'll be able to say that the U.S. is doing its part. About a month ahead of schedule, the administration says the United States today is meeting its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will meet with the president of Turkey next week when he travels to Asia for meetings with world leaders. The White House says Obama and Recep Tayyip Erdogan (REH'-jehp TY'-ihp UR'-doh-wahn) will meet Sunday on the sidelines of a major economic summit. The two will discuss Turkey's recent assault against the Islamic State group in Syria and rising tensions with Kurds in the region.
PRETA, Italy (AP) — Italian police have arrested two people for allegedly looting quake-damaged homes. Police say officers riding motorcycles in streets filled with rubble today arrested a Romanian man and woman in the hamlet of Preta. It's near the hardest-hit town, Amatrice (ah-mah-TREE'-cheh), where least 231 people perished in the Aug. 24 quake and hundreds of homes collapsed or became unsafe. In all, 292 people are confirmed dead in several towns in central Italy. Some people are sleeping in cars near their homes for fear of looting.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal aviation officials estimate there will be 600,000 commercial drone aircraft operating in the U.S. within the year as the result of new safety rules that opened the skies to them today. Commercial operators initially complained that the new rules would be too rigid. The Federal Aviation Administration responded by creating a system to grant exemptions to the rules for companies that show they can operate safely. The agency says it's already granted 76 exemptions, most of them to companies that want to fly drones at night.
CHICAGO (AP) — A former Chicago transportation official has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he was convicted of taking bribes to steer $100 million in red-light camera contracts to a company in Phoenix. A federal judge sentenced John Bills today in Chicago. Federal prosecutors had asked the judge for at least a 10-year prison sentence. The former second-in-command at Chicago's Department of Transportation was convicted in January of bribery, conspiracy and extortion.
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