Islamic State Executes Another Journalist, Germany Bans Uber, Detroit’s Bankruptcy Trial Kicks Off: P.M. Links

• A video released today appears to show
  American journalist Steven Sotloff executed by terrorist group
  the Islamic State (ISIL). The video ends with a threat to execute
  British citizen David Cawthorne Haines.
• Germany has
  banned Uber across the whole country. Uber faces huge fines
  should it try to defy the ban. How could they treat a company with
  a German name so badly?
• 
  Detroit’s bankruptcy trial kicks off today to determine whether
  the city’s reorganizational plan is valid.
• A third U.S. aid worker, a doctor, has been
  infected with the Ebola virus in Liberia.
• A federal court in Texas is hearing arguments today about
  whether the
  state’s voter ID law is legal.
• Jurors are now deliberating the
  fate of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife,
  charged with corruption and peddling his influence to a vitamin
  company executive.

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