Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.
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Lakhdar Brahimi says evidence suggests that some kind of chemical “substance” was used that may have killed more than 1,000 people.
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The release of an intelligence report formally linking Assad to the purported chemical attack could come as early as today.
3.
Obama says in a radio interview that he imagines the civil rights leader “would be amazed in many ways about the progress that we’ve made.”
4.
In his last chance to plead for his life, the Army psychiatrist decides not to submit evidence, call witnesses or testify.
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The region hasn’t seen a significant forest fire since perhaps the 1910s. That’s left a century’s worth of fuel in the blaze’s path.
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Japan upgrades the leak of 80,000 gallons of radiation-contaminated water at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima plant to a “serious incident.”
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A shadowy group of pro-Assad hackers known as the Syrian Electronic Army says it launched the cyberattack — and a similar assault on Twitter.
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The short-lived by super-heavy element has been dubbed “ununpentium.” A catchier name is likely coming.
9.
The Dow falls 170 points, Asian stocks plunge and the price of oil soars.
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Seventeen-year-old Victoria Duval, who’s ranked 296th in the world, knocks off Samantha Stosur at the U.S. Open. Stosur won the tourney in 2011.
