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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:<\/p>\n
1. STAGE SET FOR CLINTON, TRUMP DEBATE SHOWDOWN<\/p>\n
Tonight’s presidential debate – the first of three – comes as the candidates seek to improve their images even as large numbers of Americans hold negative views on both of them.<\/p>\n
2. ‘A NIGHTMARE THAT TRAVELS WITH ME WHEREVER I GO’<\/p>\n
That’s how Syria refugee Mohammed al-Haj, who now lives in Germany, describes the long civil war that plagues his home country.<\/p>\n
3. WHO HAD A SERIES OF RUN-INS WITH THE LAW BEFORE SHOOTINGS<\/p>\n
Arcan Cetin, accused of killing five people at mall south of Seattle, had previously faced charges of assaulting his stepfather, and drunk driving.<\/p>\n
4. ARNOLD WAS ‘A PIONEER IN HIS SPORT’<\/p>\n
Jack Nicklaus responds to the death of rival and close friend Arnold Palmer, a champion and golf ambassador who brought the sport to the masses.<\/p>\n
5. WHERE THOUSANDS FLEE AHEAD OF FLOODWATERS<\/p>\n
Several thousand residents of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, leave their homes as the rain-swollen Cedar River rises seven feet over flood stage.<\/p>\n
6. COLOMBIA TO SIGN HISTORIC ACCORD<\/p>\n
Colombia looks to emerge from five-decades of bloodshed when the government and the country’s largest rebel movement sign a peace deal.<\/p>\n
7. PENSION CRISIS CONFRONTS DALLAS POLICE, FIREFIGHTERS<\/p>\n
The retirement plan, which was tied to risky real estate investments, is just 45 percent funded and projected to run dry in 15 years.<\/p>\n
8. WHY SOME GRADE SCHOOLS DROP HOMEWORK<\/p>\n
They want to allow kids more time to play sports, spend time with families, read and sleep.<\/p>\n
9. CHARISMATIC MARLINS ACE DIES IN BOATING ACCIDENT<\/p>\n
Jose Fernandez, a two-time All-Star and former National League rookie of the year, is killed with two other people when their 32-foot vessel hits a jetty off Miami Beach, authorities say.<\/p>\n
10. 9. SHARK INJURES TEEN SURFER AT SITE OF PREVIOUS FATAL MAULING<\/p>\n
A shark lacerates the 17-year-old’s thigh in the waters off the same Australian beach where a Japanese surfer was attacked and died in February 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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