What's leading the news today?

Any good news?

You know, positive stories?

Um, no.

A mother's plea to ISIS

'Please release my child'

Shirley Sotloff says her son, Steven Sotloff, who was in the video showing the beheading of another journalist, should be spared. FULL STORY

• American killed fighting for ISIS
• Freed American back in the U.S.
• CNN speaks to jihadi fighter  
• Signs point to U.S. airstrikes in Syria

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  PRESIDENT OBAMA REPORTEDLY PLANS to do an end-run around Congress to forge an international climate change deal, effectively bypassing the Constitution's requirement to get the Senate's approval for a treaty.
• VIDEO: Americans favoring action to limit greenhouse gas emissions?
• VIDEO: Cloud Peak Energy CEO talks coal, regulation
• FOX NEWS FIRST: Obama to unveil global warming 'treaty' | VIDEO: Obama pursuing climate deal?

Jack Donaldson, 12, left, with family. (Courtesy of Whiston-Donaldsons)

She let her son play in the rain.
He never came back.

Nora Krug

After Anna Whiston-Donaldson’s son died, she wrote a memoir about his death and her slow emergence from a cloud of grief.