- A charter plane from Dubai carrying military contractors, some American, was allowed to complete its flight after being forced to land in Iran due to an out of date flight plan.
- NASA scientists are looking to the skies this weekend for a house-sized asteroid passing within 25,000 miles of Earth.
- Pentagon officials confirmed the death of al Shabaab terrorist leader Ahmed Abdi Godane in a US airstrike in Somalia earlier this week.
- The US economy added 142,000 jobs in August as the unemployment rate dropped to 6.1%, with Fed chair Janet Yellen noting continued "underutilization" of workers in the market.
- Chinese internet commerce giant Alibaba will seek to raise more than $24 billion in a record IPO offering at $66 a share, or a total company value of $163 billion.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
Although drone strikes are less inflammatory than Israel's incessant attacks on Gaza, they both have the effect of helping ISIL/ISIS and other radical groups with their recruiting efforts. It's like fighting cancer with surgery alone: chopping out the big parts merely results in spreading malignant cells throughout the rest of the body.
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