• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
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• 1. WASHINGTON LOOKS TO IRAQ'S 'AWAKENING COUNCILS' TO DEFEAT TERRORISTS
• The Sunni militia, which supported the U.S. against al-Qaida years ago, could be a model for a similar resistance movement to ISIL.
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• 2. ROAD TO KIEV-EU PACT PAVED IN BLOOD
• Ukraine will sign a sweeping economic and trade agreement with the European Union that was the catalyst of a revolution that killed scores of Ukrainians and toppled a president.
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• 3. WHY THE TEA PARTY IS STEAMING RIGHT NOW
• The Washington establishment stomps the conservative purists who, despite spending millions of dollars, suffer stinging losses.
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• 4. WHAT CHILDREN CROSSING BORDER INTO U.S. BELIEVE
• Partly because of crime at home, partly because they think American law now allows kids to stay in the United States, the number of unaccompanied minors detained on the border has more than tripled since 2011.
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• 5. WHO IS PAYING A VISIT TO TAIPEI
• China has sent its first ever ministerial-level official to Taiwan for meetings with its government in a sign of evolving relations between them.
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• 6. JUDGE ORDERS GOVERNMENT TO TELL PEOPLE WHY THEY ARE ON NO-FLY LIST
• The ruling issued by a federal court in Oregon says the challenge process for those prohibited from flying falls short of due process.
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• 7. EUROPEAN LEADERS, DESCENDENTS OF WORLD WAR I FIGHTERS, GATHER FOR ANNIVERSARY

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