WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday said the U.S.-led coalition is making progress against Islamic State militants in both Iraq and Syria, as he delivered an update on the campaign aimed at reassuring Americans worried about the spread of extremism-fuel terrorism.
"We are hitting ISIL harder than ever," Obama said, using an acronym for the Islamic State. Obama said airstrikes had increased and the military coalition had successfully knocked out key figures in the group's leadership "one by one."
BOSTON — Halting a runaway Red Line subway train with 50 passengers aboard with no injuries drew praise for the two Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority workers who performed the feat from the T's control center last Thursday, stopping the driverless train in north Quincy by shutting off the power to the third rail.
"You two performed in exemplary fashion, made a whole series of strategic decisions, executed them perfectly and turned what could have been a far more dangerous circumstance into something that – while it was temporarily messy for a lot of the people involved – did not lead to any sort of significant, even minor, disaster," Gov. Charlie Baker told the MBTA employees, Mark McNeill and Ainsley "Lee" Saunders, during a ceremony in the governor's office Monday. Both received formal citations for their performance.
