Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about today:
1.
Israel’s most intense offensive on the Gaza Strip in four years sets off new rounds of fighting, with an early rocket attack killing three Israelis.
2.
Xi Jinping secured the Communist Party’s top spot to lead a nation clamoring for economic and political reform.
3.
The anonymous email in May warned the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan to stay away from a Florida socialite, the first in a chain of messages that led to the downfall of CIA Director David Petraeus.
4.
FBI Special Agent Frederick Humphries II helped stop a Los Angeles airport terror plot more than a decade ago.
5.
The president sees no evidence that the messy drama that ended his CIA director’s career has endangered the country’s security.
6.
For the first time in three years, the 17 countries that use the euro have fallen back into a recession.
7.
The Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention says that alcohol packs almost as many empty calories as sugary soda.
8.
Let taxes rise on the rich, the president urges. That would hurt the economy and stunt job growth, the GOP leader counters.
9.
Study of a just-identified variant gene might reveal ways to prevent the mind-robbing disorder.
10.
A helicopter is to begin dropping nearly 22 tons of poison bait to clear out rodents that have overrun the Galapagos Islands.
