President Barack Obama has approved sending up to 1,500 more troops to Iraq, roughly doubling the number of U.S. forces on the ground to advise and retrain Iraqis in their battle against the militant group Islamic State.
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President Barack Obama told Republican and Democratic leaders he invited to lunch at the White House on Friday that he was committed to taking action on immigration reform because the House of Representatives was unable to pass a bill, the White House said.
President Barack Obama has chosen a federal prosecutor in New York to become the next attorney general.
A lone suspect has been arrested and charged with four counts of murder in the slaying of a couple and their two young sons whose skeletal remains were found buried last year in the California desert, police and prosecutors said on Friday.
The United State Air Force said it had recovered the body of an F-16 fighter jet pilot who was killed when his aircraft crashed in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday during a routine training mission.
Authorities say a Pennsylvania couple struck a 3-year-old boy with a frying pan, laughed as they hung him upside down and beat him, and eventually inflicted so many injuries that he died in what a prosecutor described as an “unspeakable act of depravity.”
