Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.
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North Korea called the detonation its “first response” to what it described as U.S. threats.
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A conservative cardinal in Milan and several contenders from Latin America and Ghana have been mentioned.
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The AP’s Victor L. Simpson reports the 85-year-old pontiff chose to step down rather than suffer a long decline like his predecessor.
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Obama plans to focus on the economy and job creation in his State of the Union speech
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An AP investigation finds at least 50 nations had match-fixing probes last year.
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Opposition fighters won their second strategic victory in as many days in their uprising against Assad.
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Democrats are calling a committee vote for the defense secretary nominee, rejecting Republican demands for more financial information.
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Chicago police say the two men mistook Hadiya Pendleton and her friends for members of a rival gang.
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Sarah Silverman’s sister Susan, a Jerusalem rabbi, was stopped because she was wearing religious clothing that Orthodox Judaism reserves for men only.
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That means no cosmetic surgery and no steroids. “It goes against the spirit of showing dogs,” club President Sean McCarthy says.
