IRAQI FORCES REPORTEDLY PUSH ISIS TERRORISTS OUT OF A POCKET OF TERRITORY NEAR KEY WESTERN CITY OF RAMADI FRI *

NEWS FOLLOWS STRING OF RECENT IRAQI VICTORIES AGAINST ISIS IN IRAQ'S WESTERN ANBAR DESERT *

IRAQI FORCES ARE NOW MOVING NORTH IN ADVANCE OF OFFENSIVE ON IRAQ'S SECOND-LARGEST CITY OF MOSUL, WHICH HAS BEEN UNDER ISIS CONTROL FOR TWO YEARS *

MOSUL IS ALSO ISIS' LAST REMAINING URBAN STRONGHOLD IN IRAQ *

FED JUDGE DISMISSES LAWSUIT AGAINST KENTUCKY CLERK WHO REFUSED TO ISSUE MARRIAGE LICENSES TO SAME-SEX COUPLES *

LAWSUIT AGAINST ROWAN COUNTY CLERK KIM DAVIS WAS BROUGHT BY TWO GAY COUPLES AND TWO STRAIGHT COUPLES *

DAVIS SPENT FIVE DAYS IN JAIL FOR REFUSING A JUDGE'S ORDER TO ISSUE THE LICENSES *

DAVIS' DEPUTY CLERKS ISSUED THE LICENSES WHILE SHE WAS JAILED *

FED JUDGE ORDERS HILLARY CLINTON TO ANSWER QUESTIONS IN WRITING FROM A CONSERVATIVE GROUP ABOUT HER USE OF PRIVATE EMAIL SERVER DURING HER TENURE AS SECY OF STATE *

DECISION STEMS FROM REQUEST BY CONSERVATIVE LEGAL ADVOCACY GROUP JUDICIAL WATCH TO QUESTION THE DEM NOMINEE IN PERSON AND UNDER OATH *

FBI CLOSED ITS INVESTIGATION INTO CLINTON'S USE OF A PRIVATE EMAIL SERVER LAST MONTH WITHOUT RECOMMENDING CRIMINAL CHARGES *

U.S. FIGHTER JETS INTERCEPT TWO SYRIAN MILITARY AIRCRAFT IN NE SYRIA TO PROTECT U.S. SPECIAL FORCES IN REGION, PENTAGON SPOX SAYS *

INTERCEPT COMES DAY AFTER SYRIAN JETS BOMBED KURDISH FIGHTERS IN VICINITY OF U.S. TROOPS *

DEFENSE OFFICIAL SAYS PRESENCE OF U.S. JETS ENCOURAGED SYRIAN AIRCRAFT TO DEPART AIRSPACE NEAR HASAKAH WITHOUT INCIDENT *

OBAMA ADMIN HAS DEPLOYED SEVERAL HUNDRED SPECIAL FORCES TROOPS TO SYRIA TO AID LOCAL MILITIAS IN FIGHT AGAINST ISIS *

CDC DIRECTOR SAYS OFFICIALS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SPRAY THE MIAMI BEACH AREA TO PREVENT ZIKA AS THEY HAVE IN OTHER AREAS BECAUSE OF HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS AND STRONG WINDS *

DR TOM FRIEDEN SAYS PLANES CAN'T FLY LOW ENOUGH AMONG MIAMI BEACH'S HIGH-RISES TO SPRAY PESTICIDES THAT KILL MOSQUITOES AND THEIR LARVAE *

CREWS IN MIAMI-DADE COUNTY HAVE BEEN SPRAYING PESTICIDE FROM PLANES FLYING OVER MIAMI'S WYNWOOD ARTS DISTRICT SINCE EARLY THIS MONTH AFTER ZIKA TRANSMISSIONS BY MOSQUITOES WERE CONFIRMED THERE *

FL OFFICIALS ANNOUNCED ON FRI THEY HAD IDENTIFIED SOUTH BEACH AS A SECOND AREA OF ZIKA TRANSMISSION ON U.S. MAINLAND *

FIVE NEW CASES IN MIAMI BEACH BRING TOTAL NUMBER OF NON-TRAVEL RELATED ZIKA INFECTIONS IN FL TO 36 *

CA WOMAN SENTENCED TO MORE THAN FOUR YRS IN FED PRISON FOR CONSPIRING TO EXPORT U.S. MILITARY GEAR TO CHINA WITHOUT THE PROPER LICENSE *

WENXIA MAN, A SAN DIEGO RESIDENT, WAS CONVICTED IN JUNE OF ILLEGALLY CONSPIRING TO EXPORT A DRONE AND FIGHTER JET ENGINES TO CHINA *

PROSECUTORS SAY THE 45-YR-OLD WAS ARRESTED AFTER COMMUNICATING WITH AN UNDERCOVER HOMELAND SECURITY AGENT *

LOUISIANA GOV JOHN BEL EDWARDS SAYS FEMA WILL START PAYING FOR HOTEL ROOMS FOR FLOOD VICTIMS STAYING IN CARS, HOTELS, SHELTERS OR THEIR WORKPLACES *

DISASTER FOOD STAMP PROGRAM IS SET TO BEGIN MON, AND LA INTENDS TO START CONSOLIDATING SHELTERS THIS WKND AS MORE PEOPLE RETURN HOME *

FLOODING FORCED MORE THAN 30,000 RESCUES AND LEFT AN ESTIMATED 40,000 HOMES DAMAGED *

TRUMP CAMPAIGN CHMN PAUL MANAFORT STEPS DOWN AMID CAMPAIGN SHAKEUP AND REVELATIONS HE SUPPORTED A PRO-RUSSIA POLITICAL PARTY IN UKRAINE *

RESIGNATION COMES A DAY AFTER AP REPORTED THAT CONFIDENTIAL EMAILS FROM MANAFORT'S FIRM CONTRADICTED CLAIMS HE HAD NEVER LOBBIED ON BEHALF OF UKRAINIAN POLITICAL FIGURES IN U.S *

MEANWHILE, UKRAINIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION INVESTIGATORS ALSO RELEASED COPIES OF HANDWRITTEN LEDGERS DETAILING POSSIBLE CASH PAYMENTS FROM UKRAINIAN POLITICAL FIGURES TO MANAFORT TOTALING MORE THAN $12 MIL *

MANAFORT DENIES RECEIVING PAYMENTS *

WHITE HOUSE SAYS PRES OBAMA WILL TRAVEL TO LA TUES TO SURVEY DAMAGE CAUSED BY HISTORIC FLOODING THAT KILLED AT LEAST 13 PEOPLE *

OBAMA HAS COME UNDER HEAVY CRITICISM FROM SOME IN LA FOR CONTINUING HIS NEW ENGLAND VACATION WHILE PARTS OF THE STATE SUFFERED AFTER ANOTHER MAJOR NATURAL DISASTER *

GOP PRES NOMINEE DONALD TRUMP AND RUNNING MATE MIKE PENCE VISITED FLOOD VICTIMS ON FRI, WHILE DEM PRES NOMINEE HILLARY CLINTON CALLED LA GOV. JOHN BEL EDWARDS TO DISCUSS THE SITUATION AND SAID THE RELIEF EFFORT "CAN'T AFFORD ANY DISTRACTIONS" *

WHITE HOUSE ANNOUNCED OBAMA'S TRIP FRI AFTER HE WAS BRIEFED BY HOMELAND SECURITY SECY JEH JOHNSON, WHO VISITED LA ON THURS *

SECY OF STATE JOHN KERRY TRAVELING TO AFRICA MON FOR TALKS IN KENYA AND NIGERIA ON COUNTERING TERRORISM *

KERRY WILL FIRST MEET WITH KENYAN PRES UHURU KENYATTA ON REGIONAL ISSUES, INCLUDING VIOLENCE IN SOUTH SUDAN AND SECURITY IN SOMALIA *

HE'LL THEN VISIT THE NIGERIAN CITIES OF SOKOTO AND ABUJA ON TUES AND WED, MEETING WITH PRES MUHAMMADU BUHARI AND LEADERS FROM COUNTRY'S LARGELY MUSLIM NORTH *

KERRY THEN HEADS TO SAUDI ARABIA ON WED AND THURS FOR TALKS ON CONFLICT IN YEMEN *

TURKEY'S GOVT CALLING ON U.S. TO SPEED UP PROCEDURES FOR EXTRADITION OF U.S.-BASED MUSLIM CLERIC FETHULLAH GULEN, ACCUSED OF ORCHESTRATING LAST MONTH'S COUP ATTEMPT *

OFFICIALS SAY TURKEY AND U.S. HAVE AN EXTRADITION AGREEMENT, ADDING PROCESS SHOULD NOT BE DELAYED *

GULEN DENIES INVOLVEMENT IN THE JULY 15 COUP THAT KILLED MORE THAN 270 PEOPLE *

U.S. HAS ASKED FOR EVIDENCE OF GULEN'S INVOLVEMENT AND SAYS THE REGULAR EXTRADITION PROCESS MUST TAKE ITS COURSE *