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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (times in EDT):
1. REPUBLICANS CHEER ROMNEY’S DEBATE PERFORMANCE
Even some Democratic partisans grudgingly acknowledged that the GOP candidate outperformed a cautious Obama, according to an analysis by AP’s Charles Babington.
2. ROMNEY: “I LOVE BIG BIRD”
Twitter users posted 17,000 tweets per minute mentioning the Sesame Street star shortly after the Republican presidential candidate made this proclamation, the only bona fide sound bite of the debate.
3. TENSIONS RISE ALONG A VOLATILE BORDER
Turkish artillery fired on Syrian targets for a second day, but the shelling is described as a “warning” without intention to declare war.
4. STATE DEPARTMENT OPENS BENGHAZI REVIEW
Clinton pledges a full inquiry into whether security was adequate at the U.S. Consulate where an ambassador was killed.
5. WHERE $10 MILLION OF POT WAS FOUND
A marijuana farm with about 1,500 plants, some 8 feet tall, was discovered in the South Side of Chicago.
6. ABORTION SHIP APPROACHING MOROCCAN SHORE
If allowed, it would be the first time the Dutch ship, which terminates pregnancies in international waters, would dock at a Muslim country.
7. WHAT’S SUSPECTED BEHIND DEADLY MENINGITIS OUTBREAK
Everyone in five states who has been sickened had received steroid injections, mostly for back pain.
8. THE NEWEST TEEN TREND: PHONE VALETS
Thousands of teens in New York City who can’t take their cells into school are paying a dollar a day to leave the devices in a truck parked nearby.
9. WHO’S NOMINATED FOR THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
Rush, Deep Purple, Public Enemy and N.W.A. are among the 15 artists vying for entry.
10. TIGERS’ MIGUEL CABRERA WINS TRIPLE CROWN
The feat hasn’t been accomplished since Boston’s Carl Yastrzemski did it in 1967.
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- Ex-East Texas dentist convicted of murdering wife
- ID sought after human skull found in Jasper woods
- 10 Things to Know for Today
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LIVE BLOG: 2013 Presidential Inauguration Coverage
The Associated Press is providing real-time coverage as Barack Obama in sworn in for a second term as president of the United States. Stay with this page for the latest stories, photos and videos of the event.
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VIDEO: What will the First Lady wear to the inaugural ball?
From the frock worn by Eleanor Roosevelt to Jason Wu's gown for Michelle Obama, the dresses worn by first ladies enter the history books along with their owners.
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Naked-image scanners to be removed from U.S. airports
The Transportation Security Administration will remove airport body scanners that privacy advocates likened to strip searches after OSI Systems Inc. couldn't write software to make passenger images less revealing.
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Threat of using 'bubble gun' gets 5-year-old suspended
A 5-year-old kindergartner who told classmates she was going to shoot them, and then herself, with her pink gun that shoots bubbles, was grilled for three hours by school officials without her mother’s knowledge, and then suspended.
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