Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.
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Pro-opposition groups say “rockets with poisonous gas heads” killed over a hundred people in the suburbs of the nation’s capital.
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A memo obtained by The Associated Press says the Obama administration believes rebels fighting Assad won’t support U.S. interests if they took over.
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A court hearing was set for today to decide whether Egypt’s former president could go free after his life sentence was overturned on appeal.
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Parents rushed to an elementary school where an armed gunman exchanged fire with police, but all 800 students were safely evacuated.
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A judge will announce today what sentence the Army private will serve for leaking reams of classified information to WikiLeaks.
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The last installment of secretly recorded tapes of phone calls between the president on Watergate and Soviet peace talks are going to be released today.
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But it wasn’t clear whether Army Maj. Nidal Hasan would call any witnesses before a military jury begins deliberating the case.
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The ACT testing company says just a quarter of this year’s grads have the reading, math, English and science skills they need.
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In the wake of the random slaying in Oklahoma, Australia’s former deputy prime minister urges a travel boycott to force Congress to act on gun control.
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The author, who died Tuesday at 87, helped do for crime writing what Stephen King did for horror. He made it hip, and he made it respectable.
