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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 Monday:
• 1. SAME-SEX COUPLES EXCHANGE VOWS IN NEW JERSEY
• U.S. Senator-elect and Newark Mayor Cory Booker presides over ceremonies in Newark as the Garden State becomes the 14th to recognize gay marriage.
• 2. HURRICANE RAYMOND GAINS STRENGTH
• Mexico's already soaked Pacific coast braces for heavy rains a month after Tropical Storm Manuel caused widespread damage.
• 3. WHERE POISONINGS ARE BLAMED ON PESTICIDES
• "We've gone from a pretty healthy population to one with a high rate of cancer, birth defects, and illnesses seldom seen before," says a doctor in Argentina.
• 4. WHOSE NEGLECT LIES HIDDEN
• A growing cohort of elderly people across the world live -- and increasingly die -- in silence, unseen and unheard, left to fend for themselves.
• 5. CONTAMINATED BREAST MILK PROMPTS WARNING
• Researchers find high amounts of bacteria that could sicken babies in three-fourths of the 101 samples they bought online.
• 6. 15% OF AMERICANS AGE 16-24 ARE IDLE
• Six million young people are neither in school nor working, a study finds.
• 7. ISRAEL-U.S. RIFT OVER IRAN WIDENS
• Israel's prime minister calls for continued pressure on Iran for its suspected nuclear program, even as American officials weigh easing economic sanctions.
• 8. SAN FRANCISCO COMMUTE PROMISES TO BE ROUGH AGAIN
• The Bay Area is in for another day of gridlock with no immediate plans for more talks between striking rail workers and transit officials.
• 9. HOW CAROL BURNETT GOT THE LAST LAUGH
• Burnett, who just won the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, says a TV executive once told her that variety shows like hers were "a man's game."
• 10. COLTS THROW HOMECOMING FOR PEYTON
• Indianapolis rolls out the red carpet for Manning in his first return leading Denver's offense.

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