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• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
• 1. FOR ARMSTRONG, NOT AS EASY AS RIDING A BIKE
• Lance Armstrong acknowledges in a TV interview what he has lied about repeatedly for years: He used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France a record seven times.
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• 2. ALGERIA STANDOFF NOT OVER
• Britain says the hostage crisis "remains ongoing" after an Algerian raid on the gas plant to wipe out Islamists and free captives from at least 10 countries turned

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• 3. HOW THE GROUNDING OF 787s MAY IMPACT BOEING
• The maker of the technologically advanced Dreamliner faces an uncertain future, depending on how fliers react to its mechanical woes.
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• 4. WHAT NEW TOOL THOSE WITH FOOD ALLERGIES HAVE
• Legal challenges under the federal disabilities law. And that could impact menus offered by schools, restaurants and anyone else that serves food.
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• 5. WHY THE GOP WANTS TO DO AWAY WITH THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
• After back-to-back presidential losses, Republicans in key states want to change the rules to make it easier to win -- and the proposed change appears to be gaining momentum.
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• 6. ACID ATTACK ON FORMER BALLET STAR
• Sergei Filin, artistic director of the world famous Bolshoi Theater's ballet troupe, was splashed and may lose his eyesight.
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• 7. OBAMA'S UNPRECEDENTED MOVE TO KICKSTART AGENDA
• The president's political organization is being turned into a nonprofit group -- funded in part by corporate money -- to mobilize support behind his second-term agenda.

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