CNN News:美国首位非裔司法部长辞职

Fridays are awesome. So are jobs, chocolate and football. They are all featured today on CNN STUDENT NEWS. First up, the U.S. will be getting a new Attorney General. Eric Holder announced yesterday he`ll resign from his job. The Attorney General leads the U.S. Department of Justice. It`s the highest legal job in the land. Holder became the first African-American Attorney General in 2009. Opinions of his work are strongly partisan. Democrats generally think he did a good job, saying he made achievements in civil rights. Republicans mostly wanted him out saying he disregarded the U.S. Constitution. Holder`s strongly supported the same sex marriage, and he prioritized issues related to voting rights. He also became the first U.S. cabinet member to be held in contempt of Congress after he refused to turn over documents related to a failed government program involving guns and Mexican drug cartels.

The latest targets in the U.S.-led war against the ISIS terrorist group, oil refineries in Syria. ISIS has been using these to pay for its operations getting up to $2 million a day from them. The U.S. wants that stopped, even though the U.S. military official says the group has a billion dollars in the bank.

ISIS stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The terrorist group wants its own country in the region, bases on its own interpretation of Islam. ISIS has slaughtered civilians, soldiers, journalists, and an American defense official says the fight against ISIS will likely last for years. It won`t be cheap.

Expending military strikes into Syria come with an expending bill to pay for the effort. U.S. military forces and its coalition partners launched air attacks in the country, with the blunt force of 47 tomahawk missiles across northern and eastern Syria.