Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
1. HOLDER TO END 'MANDATORY MINIMUMS' The attorney general will tell lawyers in San Francisco today that the federal government will end the harsher sentencing guidelines for many drug offenders. HOLDER-SENTENCING
2. MORSI CAMPS SET TO CONFRONT MILITARY SIEGE Supporters of the ousted Egyptian leader fortified their two sit-ins in Cairo after police warned they would remove the protest camps by today. EGYPT
3. SURVEILLANCE CONTROVERSY HANGS OVER KERRY IN LATIN AMERICA A chilly reception is expected in Colombia, one of several countries that oppose the U.S.' spying program and its attempts to prosecute NSA leaker Edward Snowden. KERRY
4. WHERE SNOWDEN'S DAD IS GOING Lon Snowden says he and a lawyer have papers to visit his son in Russia and discuss how to fight espionage charges in the U.S. NSA SURVEILLANCE-SNOWDEN'S FATHER
5. 2 ARRESTED AFTER WOMEN FOUND SLAIN, TODDLER WANDERING Rhode Island police are pursuing charges in the killings of two women and the abduction of one of the women's 2-year-old boy, who was later found unharmed. DOUBLE HOMICIDE-MISSING CHILD
6. SINKHOLE THREATENS RESORT VILLA NEAR DISNEY WORLD Vacationers were evacuated at the Summer Bay Resort after a huge crack developed in a villa and the building partially collapsed. SINKING BUILDING-RESORT
7. 45 FISHERMEN MISSING AFTER PHILIPPINES TYPHOON And one man was killed in a landslide after the powerful storm toppled power lines in a mountainous part of the northern Philippines. ASIA TYPHOON
8. WHY KIDNAP SUSPECT DREW ATTENTION A former Idaho sheriff says James Lee DiMaggio and the teen girl he was traveling with seemed out of place on horseback in the wilderness, without any gear. BURNED BODIES-MISSING CHILDREN
9. ACTRESS' TEARFUL DEDICATION TO 'GLEE' STAR Lea Michele says boyfriend Cory Monteith 'was very special to me and also to the world' in her first public appearance since his death at the Teen Choice Awards. TEEN CHOICE AWARDS
10. FIRST-TIME CHAMP NEARLY PERFECT, FROM TEE TO GREEN Jason Dufner hit his way to a two-stroke victory over Jim Furyk for the PGA Championship. PGA CHAMPIONSHIP
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