UNITED STATES-ISLAMIC STATE

WASHINGTON — The fall of Ramadi calls into question the Obama administration's strategy in Iraq.Is there a Plan B? The current U.S. approach is a blend of retraining and rebuilding the Iraqi army, prodding Baghdad to reconcile with the nation's Sunnis, and bombing Islamic State targets from the air without committing American ground combat troops. But the rout revealed a weak Iraqi army, slow reconciliation and a bombing campaign that, while effective, is not decisive. 

WACO SHOOTING

WACO, Texas — About 170 members of rival motorcycle gangs are charged with engaging in organized crime, a day after a shootout at a Texas restaurant that killed nine people and wounded 18. By Nomaan Merchant and David Warren. 

FLIGHT HACKING INVESTIGATION

A security researcher told U.S. agents he was able to hack into aircraft computer systems mid-flight numerous times through in-flight entertainment systems, and at one point he caused a plane he was on to move sideways, according to an FBI agent's affidavit. 

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-REPUBLICANS

NEW YORK — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Sen. Lindsay Graham edge toward entering the already crowded Republican presidential field, even though both are considered longshots for the party's 2016 nomination. A

BASE JUMPING DEATHS

SAN FRANCISCO — Two wingsuit fliers who leaped from a cliff in Yosemite National Park were trying to zoom through a notch in a ridgeline and were airborne for about 15 seconds when they slammed into a rocky outcropping and were killed, a friend says. 

COLOMBIA-DEADLY FLOODING

SALGAR, Colombia — Mud and debris roared through an alpine town in western Colombia, killing at least 58 people in a flash flood and mudslide triggered by heavy rains. 

OBAMA-POLICE EQUIPMENT

CAMDEN, New Jersey — President Barack Obama ends long-running federal transfers of some combat-style gear to local law enforcement in an attempt to ease tensions between police and minority communities, saying equipment made for the battlefield should not be a tool of American criminal justice. 

CUBA-ELIAN GONZALEZ

HAVANA — Elian Gonzalez, who spent months with his Florida relatives as a Cuban child at the center of an international custody dispute, said that he'd like to return to the United States for a visit. AP Photos.

AMTRAK CRASH

PHILADELPHIA — U.S. authorities sayid they're unsure anything struck the windshield of an Amtrak train minutes before a deadly derailment in Philadelphia last week, adding another twist to the investigation the day the national passenger rail's trains started running to New York again. By Michael R. Sisak. AP Photos.

ARGENTINA-CHILD ABUSE

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Two Argentine judges are under fire for reducing the sentence of a convicted child abuser on the grounds that his 6-year-old victim had suffered earlier abuse and therefore had already been traumatized.

ARCTIC DRILLING

SEATTLE — Foes of Royal Dutch Shell's use of a Seattle seaport terminal to prepare for exploratory oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean attack on two fronts as a few hundred protesters blocked port entrances and the City of Seattle declared that Shell and its maritime host lacked a proper permit. 

BOSTON'S LONGEST MARATHON

BOSTON — The champions were already across the finish line — the elite marathoners, the ones whose names would go in the books. And Associated Press photographer Charlie Krupa had set himself up amid the celebrative crowd and snapped their triumphant pictures from a makeshift overhead bridge.

CANCER SCREENING

WASHINGTON — Mammograms at 40 or 50? Every year or every other year? What's the best colon check? Screening for cancer has gotten more complicated in recent years with evolving guidelines that sometimes conflict. Now a U.S. doctors' group aims to ease some confusion — and encourage more discussion of testing's pros and cons — with what it calls advice on "high-value screening" for five types of tumors. 

BRAZIL-CHINA

RIO DE JANIERO — China's Premier Li Keqiang will accelerate plans for an ambitious railway linking Brazil's Atlantic coast with a Pacific port in Peru, and announce billions in other investments and trade deals, when he visits Brasilia on Tuesday.

STEM CELL CLINICS

BEVERLY HILLS, California — More than 170 clinics across the country are selling experimental stem cell procedures for dozens of diseases and conditions — a mushrooming industry that has flourished despite little evidence of its safety or effectiveness.

HOT DAYS

WASHINGTON The combination of global warming and shifting population means that by mid-century, there will be a huge increase in the number of Americans sweating through days that are extremely hot, a new study says.