• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
• 1. POLICE: BOSTON SUSPECTS PLANNED MORE ATTACKS
• Commissioner Ed Davis says Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev had an arsenal of homemade explosives with them at the gunfight in suburban Watertown.
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• 2. A WEEK LATER, A MOMENT OF SILENCE
• Gov. Deval Patrick asks residents to pause today at 2:50 p.m., the time the first of two bombs exploded.
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• 3. SEARCH CONTINUES FOR CHINA QUAKE VICTIMS
• Relief teams dynamited through landslides to get food and water to isolated communities in Sichuan province, where 188 were killed and more than 11,000 injured.
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• 4. TALIBAN CAPTURES 9 HOSTAGES FROM HELICOPTER
• Insurgents took all people aboard the civilian transport after it made an emergency landing in a Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan.
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• 5. BRACING FOR FLIGHT DELAYS AFTER FURLOUGHS
• Los Angeles and New York City airports were backed up after 15,000 air traffic controllers were taken off the job because of government spending cuts.
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• 6. SUSPECT IN RICIN CASE BACK IN COURT TODAY
• The hearing for Paul Kevin Curtis could reveal what evidence authorities have from his home in the poisonous letter-mailing case.
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• 7. LARGE DEATH TOLL FEARED NEAR DAMASCUS
• Activists say six days of clashes in two Syrian towns may have killed hundreds of people, a dramatic spike in the rising death toll in the civil war.
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