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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says there's a threat to the homeland from battle-hardened militants who've spent time in Syria and Iraq. He tells ABC they pose a danger because they could enter the United States on European passports without visas. Obama says the U.S. must improve surveillance, reconnaissance and intelligence gathering to neutralize the risk.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The alleged mastermind of the deadly 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, will be tried in federal court. Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, who heads the House Intelligence Committee, is critical of the decision. He tells CNN, "If we're doing this for everybody engaged in terrorism around the world, we'd better start building prisons by the dozens."
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi government troops are continuing to attack insurgent positions in Tikrit. They're hoping to retake the northern city which is one of two major urban centers that fell to the militants earlier this month. The mostly-Sunni city is a hotbed of anger toward Iraq's government, which is led by Shiites. The military launched its push against the militants in Tikrit yesterday.
VERNON, Ariz. (AP) — Hundreds of firefighters are dealing with hot, dry conditions as they try to build containment lines along portions of a wildfire that has consumed nearly 8 square miles in eastern Arizona's White Mountains and led to evacuations. But crews are getting a break from the strong winds that had whipped the flames in recent days. There is zero containment.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius resumes Monday is South Africa. The judge is expected to hear the conclusions of a panel of mental health experts who've been assigned to assess whether the double-amputee athlete has an anxiety disorder that could have made him incapable of understanding the wrongfulness of his act when he fatally shot his girlfriend.
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