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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. MOVE TO DISPERSE MORSI CAMPS POSTPONED
•  Egyptian authorities have postponed an advance against two sit-ins by supporters of the country's ousted president to "avoid bloodshed."
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•  2. HOLDER TO END 'MANDATORY MINIMUMS'
•  The attorney general will tell lawyers in San Francisco today that the federal government will end the harsher sentencing guidelines for many drug offenders.
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•  3. SURVEILLANCE CONTROVERSY HANGS OVER KERRY IN LATIN AMERICA
•  A chilly reception is expected in Colombia, one of several countries that oppose the U.S.' spying program and its attempts to prosecute NSA leaker Edward Snowden.
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•  4. WHERE SNOWDEN'S DAD IS GOING
•  Lon Snowden says he and a lawyer have papers to visit his son in Russia and discuss how to fight espionage charges in the U.S.
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•  5. 2 ARRESTED AFTER WOMEN FOUND SLAIN, TODDLER WANDERING
•  Rhode Island police are pursuing charges in the killings of two women and the abduction of one of the women's 2-year-old boy, who was later found unharmed.
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•  6. SINKHOLE THREATENS RESORT VILLA NEAR DISNEY WORLD
•  Vacationers were evacuated at the Summer Bay Resort after a huge crack developed in a villa and the building partially collapsed.
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•  7. 45 FISHERMEN MISSING AFTER PHILIPPINES TYPHOON
•  And one man was killed in a landslide after the powerful storm toppled power lines in a mountainous part of the northern Philippines.
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•  8. WHY KIDNAP SUSPECT DREW ATTENTION

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