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Texas Governor Greg Abbott says Texas will not accept Syrian refugees

The U.S. State Department issued a worldwide travel warning Friday morning for Americans, as a result of possible threats from Al Qaeda. It will also temporarily close multiple consulates and embassies in countries located in the Middle East and North Africa starting Sunday, August 4.

A man drove from Long Island, New York, into Lower Manhattan earlier today in a van he thought was filled with explosives. He parked the van close to the Federal Reserve building, just a few blocks from the World Trade Center, and planned to detonate it using a cell phone from a nearby hotel. The explosives, however, were fake.

The FBI is investigating a threat made against talk show host David Letterman on a popular Internet destination for radical Muslims.

Editor's Note: This post has been updated to reflect that 30 American troops were killed in the attack, rather than 31, as initially reported. Taliban insurgents shot down an American military helicopter in Afghanistan Saturday, killing 30 American troops, 7 Afghan commandos, and an interpreter multiple news outlets are reporting.