Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that people will be talking about today:
IPHONE HYSTERIA GOES GLOBAL--Some Apple fans have been camping out for days to get their hands on the iPhone 5.
ANTI-ISLAM FILM PROTEST TURNS DEADLY--Pakistani police open fire on rioters who were torching a cinema during a protest against "Innocence of Muslims," killing one man.
WHERE THE CANDIDATES ARE STUMPING--Obama speaks to the AARP at 11:30 a.m., and then attends a rally in Woodbridge, Va., at 12:45 p.m. Romney courts voters in Las Vegas at 5:05 p.m.
GOING WHERE NO RESEARCH HAS GONE BEFORE--AP's Marilynn Marchione says the nation's largest cancer center in Houston is launching a massive "moonshot" effort against eight specific forms of the disease.
ENDEAVORING TO DO WHAT TOURISTS DO--The space shuttle will spend its last flying day taking in California's Capitol, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Hollywood sign.
LAST 33,000 U.S. SURGE TROOPS LEAVE AFGHANISTAN--But deadly insider attacks and a reassessment of how NATO troops partner with Afghans raise questions about how well the military strategy is working.
ARENA MEANS REBIRTH IN BROOKLYN--After decades without a pro sports team, New York City's ascendant borough is entering the major leagues again — but this time it's basketball that's taking over.
NYC STRAPHANGERS WILL SEE ANTI-JIHAD ADS SOON--A conservative blogger wins a court order allowing her message equating some Muslim radicals with savages.
HOW THE TABBY GOT ITS DESIGN--Scientists identify the gene that sets the cat's common coat pattern — stripes or blotches.
FOR D.C. FANS, A LONG TIME COMING--Postseason baseball returns to the nation's capital for the first time since 1933 as the Washington Nationals clinch a playoff spot.
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