Apple unveils Smartwatch; Obama to outline Iraq strategy; Missouri execution and more national and international news for Wednesday, September 10, 2014.
Apple unveils Smartwatch; Obama to outline Iraq strategy; Missouri execution and more national and international news for Wednesday, September 10, 2014.
1. OBAMA TO OUTLINE STRATEGY TO COMBAT ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS The president's plan may include more wide-ranging airstrikes against targets in Iraq and possibly in Syria.
2. WHAT MIDEAST COULD OFFER A U.S. COALITION The Obama administration envisions its Sunni allies in the Arab Gulf plus NATO member Turkey playing a leading role in any united front against the Islamic State group.
3. 13 YEARS AFTER 9/11, COMBAT PERSISTS Americans are bracing for another upsurge of military engagement against extremists in the Middle East where one war seems to blur into another.
4. FERGUSON CITY COUNCIL MEETS WITH BAD BLOOD AT THE FORE Elected leaders in the St. Louis suburb were greeted with fear, anger, outrage and threats of voter retribution at their first public meeting since Michael Brown's death.
5. MAN SUSPECTED OF KILLING HIS FIVE CHILDREN The children, ages 1 to 8, were slain in South Carolina, then wrapped in plastic and dumped on a dirt road in Alabama, authorities say.
6. MISSOURI INMATE PUT TO DEATH Earl Ringo Jr., convicted in a 1998 robbery and double murder, was the eighth execution in the state this year and the 10th since November.
7. GAZA WAR OVER, BUT JERUSALEM VIOLENCE REMAINS A wave of violence that has hit parts of the divided city at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict sparked events that led to the war in the coastal territory.
8. WOMEN'S COLLEGES ADDRESS TRANSGENDER APPLICANTS The discussions come as institutions, particularly faith-based ones, want to place limits on those students once they arrive on campus.
9. APPLE UNVEILS LONG-ANTICIPATED SMARTWATCH The stylish Apple Watch represents the company's most ambitious expansion since the iPad in 2010.
10. RAY RICE SPEAKS OUT The suspended running back says he has "to be strong for my wife" while NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league tried to obtain the longer video but could not.