Loss. The reason, ebay has decided to repatriate cash from overseas, resulting in a 3 billion tax charge. Repatriation, which many are choosing not to do, may change its financial flexibility. Apple and samsung made closing arguments today in the patent trial. Apple accuses samsung of copying apple features. Samsung accuses apple of twisting words, saying three patents accused of infringing are not used on the iphone. The apple lawyer has accused samsung of month after month of frenzied activity. Telling the jury, we are counting on you. And in a memo to employees he writes that he does not believe he has legitimate legal claims. He cannot know for certain what he will do. He denies the board will accept a plea deal and says the company is keeping its ipo options open. Now, to our lead story of the day, twitter trying to get more people to sign up, 255 million active users. Revenue was a bright spot. Sales more than doubled yearoveryear. In afterhours trading, it was the lowest level.
Isis have taken control of iraqs biggest oil refinery. That is crucial. That refinery would supply the fuel that iraqi forces need to fight back. And this comes despite claims frommite rocky government that military forces were using bulldozers to block the terrorists advances. Now this was the scene as iraqi forces were providing air support to keep the militant back. The latest power grab follows a move by isis to start imposing shia law. The number of cities now in the hand of terrorist continues to grow. Radical sunni militant by the thousands capturing at least three more toups in ttowns in t western diz desert. Short of creating in the case of syria, one extensive area of control and in jordan of course, threatening the territorial integrity of a country. This video appears to show a Border Crossing with jordan. I want to emphasize appears. We havent confirmed it. Confirming isis with a direct pipeline for money and weapons. Americans top diplomat travelled to baghdad to press fo
The aftermath of the fallout from ray rice punching his fiancee in the elevator. Today, there was confirmation of the suspension by the league in a letter signed by commissioner Roger Goodell. That letter could be more trouble for goodell. Cnn legal analyst joins me, jeffrey toobin. I mean, another Domestic Violence incident against a child. This is the last thing the nfl wants to know about this. What do we hear about this . And it is not just anyone committing this. Adrian peterson is one of the biggest stars in the nfl. He has been deactivated from playing, for anybody watching this this is really a step forward. Because we see many who just play after these incidents. He has been pulled off the field. What happened was he was disciplining his 4yearold son, he told police he used what he called a switch, a tree branch that he removed the leaves from and he was disciplining him for getting into an altercation with one of his children. He returned the 4yearold son to the mother after
Johnson, former l. A. Lakers matt barnes, goalie. And the list is growing. Well tell you about the latest professional athlete at the center of a Domestic Abuse allegation and look back at the lenient penalties for some highprofile offenders. We welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world to our continuing News Coverage here on cnn. Im george howell. And we begin with the u. S. Secretary of state john kerry who is now in cairo. The egyptian capital is the latest stop on his tour in the middle east as he works to build an International Coalition against isis. Hell meet today with egyptian leaders and secretarygeneral of the arab league. In ankara on friday, kerry urged turkey to do more in the fight against islamic militants. Turkey participated in the coalitionbuilding talks in saudi arabia on thursday but did not sign a formal commitment. So far kerry has built a tenstate Arab Coalition consisting of egypt, lebanon, jordan, iraq and the six gulf states of saudi arabi
After fumbling for a definition, the Obama Administration now concedes that the United States is at war with isis. But as the u. S. Scrambles to put together a coalition of nations willing to confront the terror group, theres stunning new information on the strength of this brutal enemy. U. S. Intelligence calculates that isis may have tripled in size to more than 30,000 hardcore jihadists. Even americas top military Commander Warns that airpower alone wont destroy isis, saying the u. S. Will need reliable partners on the ground to do the fighting. Our correspondents, analysts and guests are standing by with full coverage. And we begin with chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto at the pentagon. Jim . Reporter brianna, a new development tonight. We learned today that the u. S. Will begin targeting Senior Leadership of isis. The spokesman for the pentagon saying this is no longer a defensive operation, it is offensive. It will more aggressive. And as they do that, they now kn