From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jeanine Herbst.The US military is continuing air strikes in Iraq this weekend against targets controlled by militants from the Islamic State group.NPR's Hansi Lo Wang reportsthe White House has not ruled out expanding air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria.In the past few weeks, the US has made almost a hundred bombing rounds in Iraq to help Iraqi and Kurdish forces fight Islamic State extremists.President Obama's Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes saysthe White House is ready to take action against potential terrorism by the Islamic State outside of Iraq.We are actively considering what can be necessary to deal with that threat and we are not going to be restricted by borders.Rhodes calls recent killing of the American journalist James Foley by Islamic State's militants a terrorist attack against the US,but he says president Obama has not yet been presented with military options against the Islamic State beyond Iraq.Hansi Lo Wang, NPR News.In Jackson Hole Wyoming, Federal Reserve officials continue their annual discussionsand Steve Backner of Market News International saysthey are focusing on labour market conditions and the implications from monetary policy.For sometime, the Fed's biggest focus has been reducing the unemployment rate and it has fallen from 10 to 6.2%.The Fed has left short- term interest rates near zero,in hope of more improvement on the job's front and a low inflation climate.But economists are telling the Kansas City Fed's annual symposium
