Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about Friday:
1. EGYPT'S PRESIDENT DIGS IN HIS HEELS
Morsi takes an uncompromising stand in a nationally televised address, while protesters plan another big rally Friday in Tahrir Square.
2. ELECTION DIDN'T COME CHEAP
Finance reports show that the U.S. presidential campaign cost more than $2 billion — a spending record.
3. MAKING MARIJUANA LEGAL MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE EASY PART
Now Washington state faces a raft of tough questions — how to create a legal-weed market, how to keep the drug away from teens.
4. HOW ASSAD IS MAINTAINING HIS GRIP ON DAMASCUS
A massive security clampdown includes a big increase in checkpoints and blast walls, and the deployment of army tanks.