Iraq Requests U.S. Airstrikes, Patent Office Won’t Renew ‘Redskins’ Name, ‘Bitcoin Bowl’ Comes to College Football: P.M. Links

Iraq has formally requested
that the U.S.
launch airstrikes against the insurgents in the country, but
President Obama isn’t
so sure about that tactic anymore.
The White House intends to try Ahmed Abu Khattala, who
allegedly led the 2012 Benghazi attack, as a
civilian in the U.S. court system.
The Federal Reserve today
lowered its projection for economic growth this year from 3
percent to between 2.1 percent and 2.3 percent.
The Patent and Trademark Office is cancelling six trademarks
associated with the
Washington Redskins football team, saying that the name is
“disparaging to Native Americans.”
Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Bob Corker (R-Tenn.)
(Bipartisanship! Whoo!) want to raise the federal gas and diesel
taxes
by 12 cents.
For the next four years, the collegiate football bowl game in
St. Petersburg, Florida, will be known as the
Bitcoin Bowl—which, if nothing else, sounds better than its
previous names: The Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl and The magicJack
Bowl.