10 things you need to know today: June 15, 2015

U.S. airstrikes target a terrorist leader in Libya, Jeb Bush prepares to launch his presidential campaign, and more

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1. U.S. targets mastermind of 2013 Algeria attack

The Libyan government said Sunday night that U.S. airstrikes had killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the suspected mastermind of the 2013 terrorist seizure of an Algerian gas plant in which 38 foreign hostages died. U.S. officials confirmed that Belmokhtar was the target, but said they were uncertain of his fate. An Islamist connected to Libyan militants said the strikes had missed Belmokhtar, but killed four members of a Libyan extremist group linked to the 2012 Benghazi attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.

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Harold Maass, The Week US

Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.