• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
• 1. U.N. BACKS ASSERTION CHEMICAL WEAPONS USED IN SYRIA
• But the global body says more evidence is needed to determine the precise chemical agents used or who used them.
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• 2. SENATORS DETERMINED TO STOP SEXUAL ASSAULTS IN MILITARY
• Congress is spelling out for the armed services how far lawmakers are willing to go in changing the decades-old military justice system.
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• 3. CONGRESS POISED TO SCRUTINIZE IRS
• Conservative groups who were targeted by the agency are getting their say on Capitol Hill, as details of another IRS controversy are being made public.
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• 4. "BLADE RUNNER" GETS DAY IN COURT
• Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympian, has his murder trial postponed until Aug. 19 so that the prosecution has more time to investigate.
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• 5. FORT HOOD SUSPECT WILL REPRESENT HIMSELF
• Maj. Nidal Hasan plans a "defense of others" strategy. He may argue he was protecting fellow Muslims in Afghanistan from soldiers preparing to deploy from the Texas Army post.
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• 6. WHAT'S BEHIND THE PROTESTS IN TURKEY
• Demonstrators fear that Prime Minister Erdogan is forcing his conservative Islamic outlook on secular Turks.
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• 7. AP: GOVERNMENT HAS SECRET EMAIL ACCOUNTS
• AP's Jack Gillum finds that the practice could interfere with an agency's legal responsibilities to find and turn over email.
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• 8. WHEN STORM CHASERS GET TOO CLOSE TO THE ACTION
• The deaths in Oklahoma of three tornado researchers underscore the risks of

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