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November 12, 2012

10 Things to Know for Monday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about on Monday:

  • 1. CONGRESS DEMANDS ANSWERS IN PETRAEUS PROBE

“We received no advanced notice. It was like a lightning bolt,” Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein says of the FBI investigation that led the CIA chief to quit over an extramarital affair.

  • 2. WHO EARNED AMERICA’S GRATITUDE

President Obama tells veterans that the nation must commit every day “to serving you as well as you’ve served us.”

  • 3. WHERE FRUSTRATIONS SIMMER AMID ONGOING OUTAGE

Long Islanders rail against a utility that has lagged behind others in restoring electricity, two weeks after Superstorm Sandy.

  • 4. NO ROOM AT THE INNS... OR THE RENTALS EITHER

Thousands of New Jersey residents displaced by Superstorm Sandy are frantically calling real estate offices, looking to rent homes or apartments while they figure out what to do about their storm-ravaged dwellings.

  • 5. WHAT SHOOK AN ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD

Investigators haven’t ruled out any possible causes of a blast killed 2 and damaged up to 31 homes in Indianapolis.

  • 6. CASTING A VOTE TO STAVE OFF BANKRUPTCY

Greek lawmakers approve the country’s 2013 austerity budget, an essential step in Greece’s efforts to persuade creditors to unblock a vital rescue loan installment.

  • 7. HOW THE BBC IS DEALING WITH ITS SCANDAL

The head of the broadcaster’s governing body is calling for a “thorough, radical structural overhaul” after the bungling of reports that powerful Britons sexually abused children.

  • 8. FETCHING AN OVER-THE-RAINBOW BID

The faded blue pinafore dress Judy Garland wore in “The Wizard of Oz” nets $480,000 at auction.

  • 9. T.S. ELIOT’S WIDOW, WHO GREENLIGHTED ‘CATS,’ DIES AT 86

Valerie Eliot refused to cooperate with biographers but welcomed the unlikely, and lucrative, idea of a musical based on the poet’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.”

  • 10. EAGLES GO INTO A TAILSPIN

Philadelphia drops its fifth-straight game and quarterback Michael Vick suffers a concussion in a 38-23 loss to the Cowboys.

 

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