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10 Things to Know for Today The Associated Press
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday: • 1. SAME-SEX COUPLES EXCHANGE VOWS IN NEW JERSEY • U.S. Senator-elect and Newark Mayor Cory Booker presides over ceremonies in Newark as the Garden State becomes the 14th to recognize gay marriage. • 2. HURRICANE RAYMOND GAINS STRENGTH • Mexico's already soaked Pacific coast braces for heavy rains a month after Tropical Storm Manuel caused widespread damage. • 3. WHERE POISONINGS ARE BLAMED ON PESTICIDES • "We've gone from a pretty healthy population to one with a high rate of cancer, birth defects, and illnesses seldom seen before," says a doctor in Argentina. • 4. WHOSE NEGLECT LIES HIDDEN • A growing cohort of elderly people across the world live -- and increasingly die -- in silence, unseen and unheard, left to fend for themselves. • 5. CONTAMINATED BREAST MILK PROMPTS WARNING • Researchers find high amounts of bacteria that could sicken babies in three-fourths of the 101 samples they bought online. • 6. 15% OF AMERICANS AGE 16-24 ARE IDLE • Six million young people are neither in school nor working, a study finds. • 7. ISRAEL-U.S. RIFT OVER IRAN WIDENS • Israel's prime minister calls for continued pressure on Iran for its suspected nuclear program, even as American officials weigh easing economic sanctions. • 8. SAN FRANCISCO COMMUTE PROMISES TO BE ROUGH AGAIN • The Bay Area is in for another day of gridlock with no immediate plans for more talks between striking rail workers and transit officials. • 9. HOW CAROL BURNETT GOT THE LAST LAUGH • Burnett, who just won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, says a TV executive once told her that variety shows like hers were "a man's game." • 10. COLTS THROW HOMECOMING FOR PEYTON • Indianapolis rolls out the red carpet for Manning in his first return leading Denver's offense. •
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