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10 Things to Know for Today
The Associated Press

• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
• 1. TURKEY PRIME MINISTER TO FACE PROTESTERS
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan's meeting with activists today comes after hours of clashes in Istanbul between protesters and police who fired tear gas into the crowds.

• 2. NSA HEAD TO FACE CONGRESS
• Gen. Keith Alexander will field senators' questions about the surveillance by U.S. spy agencies after many called for an end to them.

• 3. SYRIA DENOUNCES 'MASSACRE' OF CIVILIANS
• Activists said rebels attacked a village that killed dozens of Shiites; a government official said many were older people and children.

• 4. OPENING THE DOOR FOR IMMIGRANTS
• In Spanish and English, the Senate pushes contentious immigration legislation over early procedural hurdles as Obama urges "The moment is now."

• 5. THE STORM THAT COULD HIT 1 IN FIVE AMERICANS
• The derecho, a weather event that could span hundreds of miles from Iowa to Maryland, is likely to generate tornadoes, power outages and oppressive heat.

• 6. CLEVELAND KIDNAP SUSPECT HEADS TO COURT
• Ariel Castro was to be arraigned today on hundreds of charges related to the kidnapping and rape of three women found in his home.

• 7. STUNNING WORDS FROM THE VATICAN
• Pope Francis says a "gay lobby" is at work at the Vatican and acknowledges he isn't particularly adept at administration, notes from a private audience reveal.

• 8. LEAKER'S GIRLFRIEND 'STILL SHOCKED'
• Lindsay Mills' father says he doesn't know where his daughter is now; she wrote,

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