• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
• 1. OBAMA TAKES TO THE AIRWAVES
• The president turns to TV as he makes his case for punishing Assad for allegedly using chemical weapons.
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• 2. WHO'S COUNTING ON A MILITARY STRIKE
• Maybe more than anyone, America's pro-Israel lobby is worried that Congress might vote "no" on penalizing Syria.
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• 3. OPTING OUT OF STANDARDIZED TESTS
• A growing number of parents aren't letting their kids take the exams, citing students' stress and other reasons.
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• 4. NFL FAN FALLS, DIES AT STADIUM
• A man who appeared intoxicated plunges to his death from a pedestrian walkway outside San Francisco's Candlestick Park.
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• 5. WHAT'S RIVETING THE ART WORLD
• An Amsterdam museum says it has identified a long-lost Vincent Van Gogh painting, the first full-size canvas by the Dutch master discovered since 1928.
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• 6. WHERE GOP HOPEFULS ARE LOOKING FOR MONEY
• Several Republicans who are thinking about running for president are courting senior members of Mitt Romney's well-oiled campaign finance machine.
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• 7. BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
• A Connecticut couple married for five years has been battling in divorce court for twice that long.
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• 8. IN JAMAICA, GANGA TOURS
• Farmers are offering trips -- technically illegal -- to some of the island's hidden marijuana plantations.

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