• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about on Friday (times in EDT):
• 1. WHAT THE U.S. JOB MARKET REPORT WILL LIKELY SOLIDIFY
• That companies are hiring steadily but cautiously. And unemployment remains high.
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• 2. CANDIDATES MAKING FINAL PUSH FOR VOTES
• Obama is eager to hold ground in key battlegrounds, and Romney is pushing to expand the contest to other states, most notably Pennsylvania.
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• 3. NEW YORK'S 'FORGOTTEN' ISLAND BEARS BRUNT OF SANDY
• Staten Island, an isolated pocket of the city, is perhaps the area most devastated by the monster storm that has left more than 90 dead.
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• 4. AS ROUTINE RETURNS TO NEW YORK CITY, IT'S JOINED BY FRUSTRATION
• Big Apple residents grapple with traffic, bus lines and shortages, prompting one to exclaim "I'm tired of it, big-time."
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• 5. NOW IT'S ATLANTIS' TURN TO JOURNEY INTO RETIREMENT
• At 6:30 a.m., the space shuttle's trek at Cape Canaveral, Fla., won't replicate the narrow, stop-and-go turns that Endeavour encountered last month in Los Angeles, but its mastermind is sweating bullets nonetheless.
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• 6. EPA: HYUNDAI, KIA OVERSTATED GAS MILEAGE
• The U.S. agency found that the Korean automakers inflated the gas mileage on most of their models by one to six miles per gallon.
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• 7. KOSHIK THE ELEPHANT HAS AN UNUSUAL TALENT
• Scientists confirm the 5.5-ton tusker can reproduce the Korean words for "hello,"

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