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Mexico creates special economic-crime force 08/22/2014 06:40pm • MARK STEVENSON Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico launched a special 5,000-strong police force Friday to combat industrial, farm and business crime that has extended throughout the country's economy, strangling commerce in some regions.Drug gangs have long penetrated some Mexican mining and Social media pushes back at militant propaganda 08/22/2014 02:28pm • ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) -- The extremists of the Islamic State group have turned their social media into a theater of horror, broadcasting a stomach-turning stream of battles, bombings and beheadings to a global audience.The strategy is aimed at terrorizing opponents at home and win Embattled congressman opts for icy challenge 08/22/2014 02:06pm • MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A Louisiana congressman plagued by a cheating scandal registered for re-election and then immediately took the "ice bucket challenge" while standing outside the secretary of state's office.Rep. Vance McAllister was wearing a New Orleans Sain US judge strikes down Florida gay marriage ban 08/22/2014 07:48am • CURT ANDERSON AP Legal Affairs Writer MIAMI (AP) -- A federal judge on Thursday declared Florida's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, joining judges across the country who have sided with gay couples wishing to tie the knot.U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle in Tallahassee ruled that the b Syria opposition: Deadly chemical attack forgotten 08/22/2014 07:47am • ZEINA KARAM Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) -- The year since a chemical attack that killed hundreds near Damascus has been a strikingly good one for President Bashar Assad.His deadly stockpile has been destroyed, but he has stayed in power, bought time and gotten world powers to engage him. Along the Beheading spurs new attacks on Islamic militants 08/21/2014 02:44pm • RYAN LUCAS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States launched a new barrage of airstrikes Wednesday against the Islamic State extremist group that beheaded American journalist James Foley and that has seized a swath of territory across Iraq and Syria. President Barack Obama vowed relentl Liberian slums barricaded as Ebola sets new record 08/21/2014 06:16am • JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH Associated Press MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) -- Riot police and soldiers acting on their president's orders used scrap wood and barbed wire to seal off 50,000 people inside their Liberian slum Wednesday, trying to contain the Ebola outbreak that has killed 1,350 people and counting a AP Analysis: Steep obstacles to any Gaza deal 08/21/2014 03:48am • KARIN LAUB Associated Press GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Renewed Israel-Hamas fighting after the collapse of truce talks in Cairo highlights the steep obstacles to ending the Gaza war. Israel's leadership is under domestic pressure not to hand achievements to Hamas after the Islamic militant group Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 08/20/2014 03:31pm • The Associated Press Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:___August 18St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch on leaders stepping up:It was reported Monday by Andrea Peterson of the Washington Post that the city of Ferguson had hired a Chesterfield public relatio 33 Washington-area companies crack Inc. 500 08/20/2014 02:58pm • Inc. Magazine’s 2014 list of the country’s fastest-growing private companies includes 33 in the Washington area, including one in the top 5, and four in the top 50. The annual list is based on three-year revenue growth. The highest-ranking Washington-area company is Arlington-based Relia Community Health details attack on patient records 08/20/2014 11:00am • FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) -- Hospital operator Community Health Systems said a cyberattack took information on more than 4 million patients from its computer network earlier this year.The Franklin, Tennessee, company said Monday that no medical or credit card records were taken in the attack, which may h Chinese, Russian media turn criticisms back on US 08/20/2014 09:02am • CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese and Russian state media have seized on the U.S. police shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old and ensuing protests to fire back at Washington's criticisms of their own governments, portraying the United States as a land of inequality and US officials: Video shows American's beheading 08/20/2014 05:20am • BRADLEY KLAPPER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- A grisly video released Tuesday shows Islamic State militants beheading American journalist James Foley, U.S. officials said, in what the extremists called retribution for recent U.S. airstrikes in Iraq. The militants threatened to kill another cap GOP chairman says Arkansas key in US Senate fight 08/19/2014 07:33pm • ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus touted Arkansas' role Tuesday in the party's fight to take control of the U.S. Senate, as he kicked off a series of visits to the state by national GOP figures over the next week.Appearing 19-year-old in leaf-pile deaths avoids deportation 08/19/2014 04:56pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- An immigration judge has dismissed the case against a 19-year-old Oregon woman who faced possible deportation to Mexico after she drove an SUV into a leaf pile, accidentally killing two young girls playing in it.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday that Cinthy