• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
• 1. 'CHATTER' ABOUT TERROR THREATS KEEPS EMBASSIES CLOSED
• Diplomatic posts in 19 cities in Egypt, Libya and other Muslim countries will remain shut through Saturday.
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• 2. MLB SUSPENSIONS COMING DOWN FOR A-ROD, OTHERS
• Rodriguez is expected to be suspended for 2014, and 13 other players are facing discipline today for their ties to performance-enhancing drugs.
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• 3. US OFFICIAL MEETS WITH JAILED ISLAMIST
• Deputy Secretary of State met with the deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, where envoys are trying to mediate a standoff with the military.
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• 4. SUSPECT JAILED IN LA HIT-AND-RUN
• Surveillance video showed a car pausing to look at the Venice Beach boardwalk, then accelerating into the crowd, killing an Italian woman on her honeymoon.
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• 5. US MILITARY HELICOPTER CRASHES IN OKINAWA
• Four crew members were on board when the rescue chopper went down at a U.S. base.
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• 6. CLOSING ARGUMENTS IN WHITEY BULGER CASE
• Prosecutors will need to make the case based on testimony of gangsters-turned-informants against the 83-year-old Bulger.
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• 7. SERVING UP A $330,000 BURGER
• British scientists say they have grown the burger in a laboratory from stem cells of cattle.
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• 8. CALIF. GOVERNOR AVERTS TRANSIT STRIKE
• Jerry Brown invoked a law that allows the state to intervene in a second planned

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