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Top Stories: No Debt Deal Likely; Suspect Arrested In Alleged NYC Bomb Plot

Good morning.

Our early headlines:

-- Superfailure Looks Likely; Then What?.

-- Death Toll Rising In Cairo After Crackdown In Tahrir Square.

-- UC Davis Pepper-Spraying: Police Chief Put On Leave, Chancellor To Speak.

-- Seattle Mariners Outfielder Halman Stabbed To Death, Brother Arrested.

Other stories making headlines:

-- Suspect Arrested In Alleged New York City Bomb Plot. (NPR staff and wires)

-- Saif al-Islam Gadhafi Captured In Libya. (Al-Jazerra)

-- "Stock Futures Fall." (Bloomberg News)

-- "Fears After Spain Election" Pull Markets Down. (BBC News)

-- "Taliban, Pakistan Said To Have Started Peace Talks." (Reuters)

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Mark Memmott is NPR's supervising senior editor for Standards & Practices. In that role, he's a resource for NPR's journalists – helping them raise the right questions as they do their work and uphold the organization's standards.
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