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• 1. UKRAINE PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES EARLY ELECTIONS
• Yanukovych also promises to form coalition government in bid to defuse crisis, end fighting in Kiev between police and protesters.
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• 2. WHY FEDERAL BUDGET DEFICIT IS FADING AS A POLITICAL ISSUE
• Annual spending gap has fallen sharply, lawmakers are tired of budget battles, and public has shifted its focus to issues like health care.
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• 3. LIFE OF YOUNG WOMAN IN YEMEN IS ENTANGLED WITH AL-QAIDA
• Story of Abeer al-Hassani, her ex-husband and three brothers provides rare look at one branch of the terror network.
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• 4. WHO OBAMA WILL HOST AT THE WHITE HOUSE
• Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama coming for a meeting. Visit could hurt already tense relations with China, which denounces him as a separatist.
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• 5. NYPD CLEARED IN SURVEILLANCE OF NEW JERSEY MOSQUES
• Federal judge dismisses civil rights lawsuit brought by eight Muslims who alleged New York police discriminated based on religion, national origin, race.
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• 6. WOMAN IN CUSTODY AFTER FOUR KILLED IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
• Eviction hearing at American Indian tribal headquarters turns deadly. Police say tribe's leader among the victims.
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• 7. NEW HONDA PLANT SHOULD MAKE MEXICO NO. 2 EXPORTER TO U.S.
• Country expected to pass Japan, narrow gap with No. 1 Canada once 200,000 Fit hatchbacks a year are rolling off assembly line.
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• 8. WHITE HOUSE POLITICAL OFFICE BACK IN ACTION AHEAD OF NOVEMBER ELECTIONS
• Democrats have always complained Obama doesn't do enough to help elect their candidates. This year, he has incentive: keep party's fragile Senate majority.
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• 9. WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS YEAR'S FLU SEASON
• It wasn't as bad as last year, and the vaccine worked better, but children and young adults - not the elderly - were hit hardest because of swine flu.

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