• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: • 1. HOW GUNMAN GOT INTO THE WASHINGTON NAVY YARD • The defense worker had a valid pass for the high-security installation where he shot and killed 12. • • 2. TWO SIDES OF SHOOTING SUSPECT • Aaron Alexis was a convert to Buddhism -- but also flashed a temper that led to at least two earlier run-ins with police. • • 3. CREWS RIGHT STRICKEN CRUISE SHIP • A vast system of cables and pulleys is used to winch the Costa Concordia from the reef off Italy where it ran aground in 2012. • • 4. WHY UN INSPECTORS HAVE SHADE OF DOUBT • They say evidence of a deadly chemical weapons attack last month in Syria could have been manipulated in the rebel-controlled stricken neighborhoods. • • 5. RIPPLE EFFECTS OF MASSIVE FLOODING • As images of dramatic rescues and crumbling roads circulate widely, officials worry that Colorado's billion-dollar tourism industry will take a hit. • • 6. WORLD'S ECONOMY STUCK IN NEUTRAL • An AP survey of more than two dozen economists suggests that global growth will remain sluggish this year and next. • • 7. WHAT SOME SEE AS A MILESTONE • The fact that the new Miss America is of Indian descent may prove that people of color can enter the cultural mainstream in ways that once seemed closed. • • 8. EXPERTS FEAR INTERNET BALKANIZATION • Brazil plans to divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet over Washington's online spying -- a potentially dangerous first step toward fracturing the global network.
