10 Things to Know for Monday - 3 November 2014
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday:
1. PARTY LEADERS CLASH OVER OBAMA AS ELECTION NEARS
With only 48 hours left until midterms, Republicans assail the president in a final push to motivate voters and Democrats deploy their biggest stars to help preserve an endangered Senate majority.
This photo provided by Compassion & Choices shows Brittany Maynard. A spokesman for Maynard says she has taken lethal medication prescribed by a doctor and died. Sean Crowley with the group Compassion & Choices said late Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014, that Maynard was surrounded by family Saturday when she took the medication. She was weeks shy of her 30th birthday. (AP Photo/Compassion & Choices)
2. 'DEATH WITH DIGNITY' ADVOCATE ENDS HER LIFE
Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old terminally-ill cancer patient, took lethal drugs prescribed by her doctor after campaigning for months for the expansion of assisted-suicide laws.
3. WHERE COPS IN FERGUSON DIDN'T WANT THE MEDIA
The federal government restricted more than 37 square miles of airspace for safety, but audio recordings show that local authorities privately acknowledged the purpose was to keep away news helicopters during protests.
4. WHO PLANS TO FIGHT TROPICAL DISEASES AMID EBOLA OUTBREAK
Bill Gates says he wants to end malaria in his lifetime and will give much more money toward that goal, increasing his foundation's malaria program budget by 30 percent.
5. GOVERNMENT-CONTROLLED SYRIA REMAINS DEFIANT
It is truncated in size, battered and impoverished, but it carries on, underscoring how Assad has clung to power despite an armed rebellion to uproot him.
6. UNITED NATIONS SAYS CLIMATE CHANGE IS HAPPENING
The U.N.'s panel on climate science says global warming is almost entirely man's fault and limiting its impacts may require reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero this century.
7. CHINA SLOWDOWN COULD BRUISE GLOBAL ECONOMY
An Associated Press survey of 30 economists has found that 57 percent of them expect China's decelerating economy to restrain growth in countries from Brazil and Chile to Australia and South Korea.
8. SPACESHIP DISASTER A REMINDER OF DEADLY EXPLOSION
The loss of an experimental aircraft that broke up over the Mojave Desert last week has renewed criticism of the way the craft's designer and Virgin Galactic handled a deadly explosion seven years ago.
9. ROBOTIC PENGUIN DESIGNED TO SPY ON REAL ONES
It's pretty darn cute, and so convincing that penguins essentially talk to it, as if it is a potential mate for their chicks.
10. BLINDFOLDED MAN WALKS TIGHTROPE BETWEEN SKYSCRAPERS
High-wire artist Nik Wallenda, great-grandson of Karl Wallenda of the famous Flying Wallendas circus family, made the nail-biting walk in Chicago with no harness or net.
CORRECTS TO 19 DEGREES-Daredevil Nik Wallenda, steps out on the wire backwards, for a live television show before his tightrope walk uphill at a 19-degree angle, from the Marina City west tower across the Chicago River to the top of the Leo Burnett Building Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 18, 2014 file photo, people stand near a cloud of tear gas in Ferguson, Mo. during protests for the Aug. 9 shooting of unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown by a white police officer. The U.S. government agreed to a police request to shut down several miles of airspace surrounding Ferguson, even though authorities said their purpose was to keep media helicopters away during protests in August, according to recordings of air traffic control conversations obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
