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A.M. Links: Obama Sends U.S. Troops to Combat Ebola, U.S. Bombs ISIS in Iraq, Scottish Independence Vote Looms

Damon Root | 9.16.2014 9:00 AM

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    President Barack Obama will send 3,000 U.S. troops to West Africa to help fight the current Ebola outbreak.

  • On Monday the U.S. launched airstrikes against ISIS targets near Baghdad.
  • According to surveys by regional Federal Reserve Banks, businesses are cutting jobs due to high costs associated with Obamacare.
  • The FBI is launching a national face recognition system.
  • "Britain promised to guarantee Scotland high levels of state funding, granting Scots greater control over healthcare spending in a last-ditch attempt to shore up support for the United Kingdom before Thursday's vote on independence."
  • A Taliban suicide attack on a NATO convoy in Kabul has killed three soldiers and injured nearly 20.

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books).

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