• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today (times EDT):
• FEW PLANS EMERGE FROM EUROPE TALKS ON FINANCIAL CRISIS
• European Union leaders end their latest summit early today with few concrete steps to fix the continent's financial crisis. Some stressed the importance of planning for a messy Greek exit from the euro.
• . GOVERNMENT TAKING STEPS TO COMBAT FOOD STAMP FRAUD
• New rules being proposed today would demand explanations from people who repeatedly seek replacements for lost cards. Many end up being sold on the open market.
• . PRIVATE CARGO CAPSULE TO TAKE PRACTICE RUN AT SPACE STATION
• SpaceX begins putting its unmanned capsule through a series of stop-and-go maneuvers around the station. If all goes well, it will dock Friday to deliver 1,000 pounds of supplies.
• . MISSOURI TO USE MICHAEL JACKSON DRUG FOR EXECUTIONS
• The state is switching from a three-drug method to a single drug, propofol, the same anesthetic used in the pop star's overdose death. Propofol has never been used in an execution in the U.S.
• . FIRE ABOARD NUCLEAR-POWERED SUBMARINE INJURES 6
• Officials say the sub's reactor wasn't operating at the time and was unaffected by the blaze that burned through the night at the shipyard in Kittery, Maine.
• . CASH-STRAPPED STATES PUSHING CONGRESS FOR NEW HIGHWAY TOLLS
• New pilot toll projects have already been approved on Interstate 95 in Virginia and North Carolina and on Interstate 70 in Missouri.

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