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• LONDON (AP) -- Authorities are carrying out a structural assessment at the Apollo Theatre after the partial collapse of its ceiling injured more than 75 people in the packed auditorium.
• An initial report is expected Friday after an overnight survey. The building remains cordoned off.
• Eyewitnesses have described chaos and panic as large hunks of plaster and dust rained down on the audience 45 minutes into a performance of "The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time."
• Playwright Simon Stephens used Twitter to thank the public for messages of support. The play was adapted from Mark Haddon's successful novel.
• The Edwardian theater is more than 100 years old. Nimax Theatres, which owns the Apollo, described the incident as "shocking and upsetting."
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- For months, two review panels given nearly identical assignments by President Barack Obama have been studying how the White House should change or limit the National Security Agency's surveillance programs. They have functioned separately -- with different experts and private and public hearings -- but with almost the same mandate.
• So it was at least a little surprising when the first panel, which recommended changes to NSA's programs this week, urged the White House to abolish the second panel and replace it with a new one.
• Among 46 recommendations spelled out in a 300-page document released Wednesday by the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies is a proposal to scrap the independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which plans to issue its own report on NSA surveillance in January.
• The review group concluded that the independent oversight board, which is authorized only to look into matters dealing with counterterrorism and intelligence, should also consider all foreign intelligence issues. To do this, the review group

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