Top of the Hour: Journalists Killed in Syria, Morning Headlines

The Takeaway

An American is one of two journalists killed in Syria this morning as security forces lay siege to the city of Homs. Reporter Marie Colvin with Britain’s Sunday Times and her photographer Remy Ochlik were killed. The Reuters news agency reports the two were inside a house hit by shelling and rockets.

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