Associated Press<\/p>\n
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:<\/p>\n
1. CHINA’S ECONOMIC GROWTH WANES TO 25-YEAR LOW IN 2015<\/p>\n
The world’s second-largest economy grew 6.9 percent in 2015, the government says, down from 7.3 percent in the previous year.<\/p>\n
2. WHY U.S. CONGRESSMEN ARE IN GERMANY<\/p>\n
They have traveled to the military medical center where three Americans, released by Iran as part of a prisoner swap, are being treated.<\/p>\n
3. WHAT CASTS CLOUD ON UPCOMING SYRIA TALKS<\/p>\n
The negotiations due next week are looking moot as recent battlefield victories by government troops bolster Assad’s hand and plunge the rebels into disarray.<\/p>\n
4. FROM PARIS SUBURB TO BLOODY ATTACK, PORTRAIT OF ISLAMIC STATE JIHADIS<\/p>\n
Court documents and transcripts of investigator interviews seen by The AP trace the path of Samy Amimour and two of his friends from France to Syria’s war zone.<\/p>\n
5. WHO JOINED GUN RIGHTS FIGHT AS POLITICAL FORTUNES ROSE<\/p>\n
Ted Cruz’s passion for issue emerged relatively recently, coinciding with his ascent in Republican circles in Texas.<\/p>\n
6. PROLIFIC SINGER-SONGWRITER-BANDLEADER GLENN FREY DIES AT 67<\/p>\n
As the Eagles co-founder, he mastered the mix of rock ‘n’ roll and country music, and the band’s hits helped define the 1970s.<\/p>\n
7. DEEP IN COLOMBIAN JUNGLE, PEACE LOOMS AT REBEL HIDEOUT<\/p>\n
The AP visits a camp of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia to examine how guerrillas are preparing for the transition to electoral politics in a conservative country hostile to the armed fighters.<\/p>\n
8. 26 YEARS LATER, SCARS OF WORKPLACE MASSACRE REMAIN<\/p>\n
In 1989, a disgruntled worker wracked with mental illness stormed a Louisville, Kentucky, printing plant with an AK-47 and killed 8 people. Victims’ families have watched it become almost routine since then.<\/p>\n
9. DUBAI TOWER BLAZE SHOWS RISKS IN COMMON BUILDING MATERIAL<\/p>\n
A review by The AP finds similar cases across the world, with experts blaming flammable exterior panels that were not designed to meet strict safety standards.<\/p>\n
10. COLLEGE HOOPS SEASON FILLED WITH SURPRISES SO FAR<\/p>\n
Among them is some impressive wins scored by the Hawks, including UCLA at Pauley Pavilion, Notre Dame and Rutgers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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