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• The CIA drones watching him cannot strike because he's a U.S. citizen and the Justice Department must build a case against him, a task it hasn't completed.
• Four U.S. officials said the American suspected terrorist is in a country that refuses U.S. military action on its soil and that has proved unable to go after him. And President Barack Obama's new policy says American suspected terrorists overseas can only be killed by the military, not the CIA, creating a policy conundrum for the White House.
• Two of the officials described the man as an al-Qaida facilitator who has been directly responsible for deadly attacks against U.S. citizens overseas and who continues to plan attacks against them that would use improvised explosive devices.
• But one U.S. official said the Defense Department was divided over whether the man is dangerous enough to merit the potential domestic fallout of killing an American without charging him with a crime or trying him, and the potential international fallout of such an operation in a country that has been resistant to U.S. action.
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• MIAMI (AP) -- Addressing what he calls a "growing opportunity gap" between people with and without advanced educations, Sen. Marco Rubio is calling for state-accredited alternatives to four-year colleges and income-based repayments for college loans.
• The Florida senator and possible 2016 Republican presidential contender also says Congress should establish an independent accrediting agency to assess free courses offered over the Internet and elsewhere as transferrable credits.
• "Those with the right advanced education are making more than ever. But those that do not are falling farther and farther behind," Rubio said in remarks prepared for an education forum Monday at Miami Dade College. "The result is a growing opportunity gap between haves and have-nots, those who have advanced education and those who do not."
• College students, he added, also should be offered cost-benefit analyses comparing how much they can expect to earn in a particular field to how much they will owe after earning a degree in the subject.
• "You have this new economic era, where higher education of some form is really a requirement to make it to the middle class and stabilize yourself," Rubio said in an interview with The Associated Press before the conference sponsored by the National Journal. "But we have an old and stagnant education formula that doesn't meet the demand that is being created."

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