WASHINGTON — The Obama administration may broaden social media reviews for visa applicants to close security gaps in the screening system, the White House said Monday.
Reviews of procedures used by the Homeland Security and State departments have been ordered and recommendations requested for changes in the process for screening people who apply for visas, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said, the Associated Press reported.
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."
