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• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
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• 1. INSURGENTS MAKE NEW INROADS IN IRAQ
• Al-Qaida-inspired militants push into an ethnically mixed province northeast of Baghdad, capturing two towns there, officials say.
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• 2. BERGDAHL BACK IN U.S. AFTER TALIBAN SWAP
• A Pentagon spokesman says that the rescued Army sergeant will "continue the next phase of his reintegration process" at a Texas base.
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• 3. RAMPANT TRAFFICKING IN THAILAND MAY CARRY PRICE
• With tens of thousands of migrants being forced into labor, the country risks being lowered on a U.S. State Department watch list without major improvements.
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• 4. WHAT MAY SURPRISE YOU ABOUT CELLPHONE TOWERS
• They could be hidden in a cross, disguised as a cactus, a silo or a palm tree. The goal is the same: concealing what most Americans view as an eyesore.
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• 5. WHAT A SPANISH TOWN SEEMS TO VALUE MORE
• An AP review finds that at the height of Spain's austerity, the local government paid the Villareal soccer club $27 million to promote an airport that was never used.
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• 6. CALIFORNIA LAWMAKER ON TRACK FOR CANTOR'S JOB
• Kevin McCarthy gathers support to become House majority leader, though some Republicans would prefer a stronger conservative.
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• 7. FEDS WORK TO KEEP SURVEILLANCE METHODS UNDER WRAPS
• The AP learns that the Obama administration has been pushing local police to keep quiet about the technology they use to sweep up cellphone data.
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• 8. WHOSE BEHAVIOR IS GETTING BETTER

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