What the Newspapers say today

• Airstrikes mark a dramatic shift
  By Greg Miller and Karen DeYoung
• Threat unites gulf nations that are often at odds Threat unites Persian Gulf nations at odds
  By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
• Man charged with abduction of missing U-Va. student
  By T. Rees Shapiro

• Ebola infections could top 1 million
  By Lena H. Sun, Brady Dennis and Joel Achenbach
• An Osama bin Laden son-in-law is sentenced to life on terrorism charges

• As fire inundates Calif., forecasts offer no relief
  By Reid Wilson
• Chimps raised as pets and performers suffer long-term social handicaps, study finds
  By Rachel Feltman
• Federal prisons holding fewer inmates
  By Sari Horwitz
• MIT study gives boost to open online courses
  By Nick Anderson
• Promises aside, emissions rising
• Obama, at U.N., presses world leaders on climate pact
  By Joby Warrick
• Manning sues after military fails to provide hormone treatment
• Group eyes wider push to legalize marijuana
• Iranian president discusses jailed Washington Post writer
  By Martin Baron and Anne Gearan

• Indian tycoon working to sell his iconic hotels from jail
  By Rama Lakshmi
• In farewell speech, Karzai slams U.S. war effort, drawing a sharp rebuke
  By Tim Craig
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• Strikes in Syria seen as start of a long campaign
  By Craig Whitlock
• With measured tones, Obama makes the case for a new war
  By David Nakamura
• U.S.-led campaign draws mixed reactions from around globe
  By Carol Morello and Anne Gearan
• U.S. airstrikes run risk of helping Syria’s Assad
  By Loveday Morris and Rebecca Collard
• Israel kills suspects in 3 teen deaths
  By William Booth and Ruth Eglash
• Syrian plane shot down over the Golan Heights
  By Ruth Eglash and William Booth
• China sentences moderate Uighur scholar to life in prison, sparking condemnations
  By Simon Denyer
• After overrunning Yemen’s capital, rebel leader vows to fight al-Qaeda
• U.S. to destroy land mines, but not on Korean Peninsula
  By Brian Murphy

• America loses another big brew
  By Drew Harwell
• Big soda companies pledge to cut calories by 2025
• Business digest: Sept. 24, 2014
• Post plans cuts to retirement benefits
  By Steven Mufson
• Pepco shareholders approve Exelon merger
  By Thomas Heath
• A cautionary tale on reverse mortgages
  By Michelle Singletary
• Awards shine light on what’s right with VA
  By Joe Davidson
• Stocks slide as new rules on ‘inversions’ cast shadow on deals in progress
  By Kevin Drawbaugh and Soyoung Kim

• No longer the talk of the party
  By Al Kamen and Colby Itkowitz
• Holder says dialogue is needed after Ferguson