Pentagon's Plan To Fight ISIS, Facebook's Professional Version & Lot More Of Today's News
The Pentagon plan has proposed a new plan to combat ISIS, which features setting up a series of American military bases spread throughout Africa, Southwest Asia and the Middle East. [The New York Times]
As calls intensify for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to step down over the recent scandals involving the Chicago police department, the former White House chief of staff has vowed to remain and promised "complete and total" reform of the CPD. [AP]
The first Baltimore police officer on trial for the death of Freddie Gray (the case which sparked protests and rioting in the city earlier this year) took the stand in his own defense. [CNN]
Just as the second season of Serial (the most popular podcast in the world) released the first episode of its second season, which focuses on Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (the American soldier held by Taliban forces for nearly five years), House Republicans have released a congressional report that blast the Obama administration's handling of the prisoner exchange that returned Bergdahl to American custody. [US News & World Report]
A Facebook executive revealed that the social network will be rolling out a professional version for users, called Facebook at Work, within the coming months. [The New York Times]
Affirmative action is back before the Supreme Court. [NPR]
Bill Gates believes the world's wealthiest should be paying for renewable energy to fight global climate change and he's putting his money where his mouth is. [Upworthy]
Sweden's national employment agency is predicting that within two years 60 percent of the country's unemployed will be foreign-born. [The Local SE]
Travel website TripAdvisor released the names of its annual "Travelers Choice" Awards. According to the site's users, the most popular destinationin the world is Marrakech, Morocco. [TripAdvisor ]
Justin Bieber recently posted a photo of girl on his Instagram asking to know the identity of the beauty and the internet may have cracked the case...it's 17-year-old from Spain. [Daily Mail]
Police in Geneva are on the hung for possible terror suspects in connection with last month's attacks in Paris. [CNN]
