Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.
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World leaders and celebrities will join Venezuelans to honor and mourn the late socialist leader in a funeral shrouded in astonishing secrecy.
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They say Pyongyang lacks the technology for a nuclear strike on the U.S. and analysts say the rhetoric has the added effect of reaching North Korea’s own people.
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Flight attendants, pilots, federal air marshals and even insurance companies are part of a growing backlash to a new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives and sports equipment onto planes.
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Federal workers at HUD, Homeland Security and the EPA face the possibility of furloughs — of varying lengths.
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The 550-pound lion that killed a 24-year-old volunteer at a California animal park likely escaped from a feeding cage and attacked her while she was cleaning its larger enclosure area, authorities say.
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Captured in Jordan, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith — Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and a member of his inner circle — is to appear in a federal court in New York.
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Democrat Carl Levin, a six-term senator, will not seek re-election in 2014, calling his decision “extremely difficult because I love representing the people of Michigan.”
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A police chief hired to rebuild a tiny Tennessee department dismantled by scandal is using a lie-detector test in a bid to keep bigots off his force.
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The social network is revamping its main feature to make it appear more like the different sections of a newspaper.
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Justin Bieber says he is “getting better,” after fainting backstage at a concert in London, and the venue says tonight’s show is scheduled to go ahead as planned.
