1. Chinese child trafficking discovered

2. Authorities raided an abandoned factory this week in East China during a child trafficking bust and rescued 37 babies and a toddler, many suffering from HIV-AIDS and malnutrition. Authorities began an investigation over the summer when police saw pregnant women being herded into an abandoned, run-down factory in Jining, a city in southwestern Shandong province. Traffickers had allegedly recruited pregnant women in the area willing to sell their babies and kept them in the factory until they gave birth. After the women delivered their babies, they reportedly handed over the newborns to the traffickers and left. Inside, police said they found diapers and other signs the building was being used as “underground delivery room.” The children were reportedly smuggled into a local morgue and sold for between $8,000 and $13,000, with boys attracting the higher prices. A 3-year-old girl up for sale had reportedly been handed over to the traffickers by relatives. Police arrested 103 people suspected of selling or buying children. The recent case is the result of a two-month sting operation in which the babies were smuggled inside handbags and luggage to a morgue at a hospital for infectious diseases, where they were kept until buyers arrived.

3. In Other News Andrew Brannan, a decorated Vietnam War veteran convicted of murdering a 22-year-old sheriff's deputy in 1998, was executed Tuesday in Georgia. According to authorities, a former bartender made plans to slip poison into House Speaker John Boehner's drink, or shoot him and drive away. Among the reasons driving the alleged assassination plot: Michael Hoyt heard voices that told him Boehner was evil. He thought the Ohio Republican was the devil. He blamed Boehner for the Ebola outbreak. And he thought the speaker was mean to him. The 44-year- old Butler County, Ohio, man was indicted last week on charges that he planned to murder Boehner -- a plan that he made after being fired from the Wetherington Golf & Country Club. Police placed Hoyt on a 72-hour psychiatric ward hold.