A.M. Links: Obama to Announce Executive Action on Immigration, 3 Students Shot at Florida State University, Director Mike Nichols Dead at 83

• President Barack Obama will
  announce his plan to take unilateral executive action on
  immigration in a primetime speech tonight.

• Three students were shot at the
  Florida State University library before campus police killed
  the gunman.

• Tony Blinken, deputy national security adviser to President
  Obama, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the White
  House is
  “open” to limits on the duration of its military efforts and
  the use of ground troops against ISIS.

• “After 13 years, 2 wars and trillions in military spending,
  terrorist attacks are
  rising sharply.”

• “The global response to the Ebola virus in Liberia is
  being hampered by poor coordination and serious disagreements
  between Liberian officials and the donors and health agencies
  fighting the epidemic, according to minutes of top-level meetings
  and interviews with participants.”

• Mike Nichols, the Oscar-winning director of The
  Graduate, has
  died at age 83.

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