10 Things to Know for Friday

10 Things to Know for Friday


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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Friday:

1. HOW OBAMA IS PUSHING BACK AT PUTIN IN UKRAINE STANDOFF

The U.S. president is imposing sanctions against Moscow and rejecting a referendum on the future of Russian-occupied Crimea.

2. SOME SENATORS WON'T STOP TRYING TO TAKE SEX CASES AWAY FROM MILITARY COMMANDERS

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand says the defeat of her bill won't be the last attempt to put serious sexual crimes in the hands of seasoned military trial lawyers.

3. WHERE THE LATEST FIGHTERS IN THE SYRIAN WAR ARE COMING FROM

Sunnis and Shiites are streaming in from Lebanon to fight over a rebel stronghold at the countries' border.

4. WHO IS BEHIND BITCOIN

Dorian S. Nakamoto, the man Newsweek claims is the founder of the digital currency exchange, denies he had anything to do with its creation.

5. NEW YORK CITY INMATES REPORT VIOLENT ENCOUNTERS WITH GUARDS

Nearly a third of Rikers Island inmates had suffered a blow to the head, a tactic that is supposed to be a guard's last resort.

6. NEW TEXAS ABORTION LAW CLOSES MORE CLINICS

The last clinic in the vast, impoverished Rio Grande Valley closed today, along with the sole remaining clinic in the 100-mile stretch between Houston and the Louisiana border.

7. SILICON VALLEY BOOM CREATES WEALTH GAP

The river of money flowing through this 1,800-square-mile California peninsula has driven housing costs to double in the past five years while wages for low- and middle-skilled workers are stagnant.

8. WHAT DOES EL NINO MEAN FOR US WEATHER WOES

The warming is expected to lead to fewer Atlantic hurricanes and more West Coast rain next winter, and even a milder winter for the nation's frigid northern tier next year, meteorologists say.

9. WITNESS TELLS HOW PISTORIUS PRAYED OVER GIRLFRIEND'S BODY

"I shot her. I thought she was a burglar. I shot her," the double-amputee runner's neighbor recalled him saying.

10. BARBIE CAN 'BE ANYTHING,' INCLUDING A GIRL SCOUT SYMBOL

That's the message the group's spokesman says it is sending despite criticism from consumer advocates about its association with the doll.

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