Current Events 1

LOCAL

An 11-month-old baby was pulled from a swimming pool in southeast Oklahoma City when she had stopped breathing.  Sources said she was pulled out after a 3-year-old tried to take her swimming.  The baby en route to the hospital in a private vehicle when the driver pulled over and called for assistance.  An ambulance was on its way.  The baby will be okay according to a fire spokeswoman.

http://newsok.com/baby-pulled-from-swimming-pool-in-oklahoma-city-is-fine-fire-department-reports/article/3378320?custom_click=pod_headline_oklahoma-city-news

To me, this article was very dry.  It included facts, yes; however, the only 'interesting' part that caught my attention was the fact that a baby was pulled from a swimming pool.  It was a very short piece and would have been better if more detail were added, even only a few more lines.

NATIONAL

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, a former top special operations commander, recently took charge of 90,000 U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.  The top priority is to protect Afghan civilians from violence.

Violence levels along with military deaths have hit record highs with President Hamid Karzai pressuring U.S. forces to prevent civilian deaths.

"The Afghan people are at the center of our mission. ... We must protect them from violence, whatever its nature," McChrystal said.

President Obama has issued 21,000 troops to Afghanistan with a total of 68,000 to be expected there by the end of the year.

http://newsok.com/u.s.-vows-to-protect-afghans/article/3378169?custom_click=headlines_widget

This story struck me as interesting because my brother is a United States Marine currently stationed in Afghanistan.  This article appears to draw the reader towards a certain angle.  It states that violence and death levels are at an all-time high; however, we are sending more and more troops there.  Yes, we are trying to help their people, but what about our own?

INTERNATIONAL

South Korea's president ordered his top security officials to deal with North Korea's new warnings of a nuclear war.  He traveled to Washington to speak with President Obama about North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.  The trip was after North Korea threatened to open war on any country that stops its ships on the high seas under new sanctions approved by the U.N. Security Council.  Along with this threat, they also stated they would "weaponize" all its plutonium along with acknowledging a uranium enriched program.

http://newsok.com/s.-korea-u.s.-to-discuss-nuke-plan/article/3377929

This article had pieces of good information in it, but it was slightly confusing when I read it.  Frankly, North Korea is threatening war on a possibly anyone.  I was unsure of the sanctions approved the U.N. Security Council and wish the writer would've included that in the article.  I am also curious as to whether N. Korea has conflict with the United States.  Should we be worried about this?