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10 Things to Know for Monday

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

1. WHAT ALL CANDIDATES AGREE ON IN IOWA

In the White House race, Democrats and Republicans acknowledge that the outcome of Monday night's caucuses will hinge on turnout, so they're making last-ditch pitches to ensure supporters show up.

2. WHO MAY SUFFER MOST FROM BRAZIL'S ZIKA VIRUS OUTBREAK

Poor women who are pregnant have no option to leave the country, and must face the dread that the mosquito-borne illness may cause birth defects in their unborn babies.

3. VA TECH STUDENTS CHARGED IN TEEN GIRL'S DEATH

Two Virginia Tech engineering students are arrested in connection with the death of a 13-year-old girl who disappeared last week.

4. BOMBINGS IN SYRIA KILL AT LEAST 50

The triple blasts in Damascus come as a U.N. mediator attempts to begin a process to end five years of civil war.

5. LOCAL RESIDENTS: ARMED STANDOFF PITS NEIGHBOR AGAINST NEIGHBOR

"It's tearing the community apart," says Bonnie Angleton of Burns, Ore., the town outside a wildlife refuge where four anti-government occupiers with weapons continue to hold out.

6. WHERE TRUMP FACES FIRST BIG TEST IN IOWA

The Iowa caucuses should help show whether the big crowds at the celebrity businessman's rallies will actually show up to vote.

7. 'I WILL NEVER STOP HEARING THOSE CRIES'

Gulcan Durdu, resident of a coastal resort town in Turkey, recounts hearing the screams of migrants whose boat hit rocks and capsized, causing 37 drownings.

8. CALIF. INVESTIGATES HOW 3 VIOLENT INMATES ESCAPED

The fugitives have been recaptured, but officials are trying to determine why they were able to break out of the maximum security prison.

9. 'THIS IS THE 20TH TIME WE BURIED ABE VIGODA'

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried pokes gentle fun at "The Godfather" and "Barney Miller" actor's funeral. Vigoda had been falsely reported dead decades ago, leading to a long-running joke.

10. CAM NEWTON ROCKS ZEBRA STRIPES ON SUPER BOWL TRIP

The Carolina Panthers quarterback wears fancy striped trousers overlaid with gold patterns while flying out to the West Coast for next week's NFL championship.

Viviane Oliveira, who's three months pregnant, dances next to a sign that reads in Portuguese : "Get out Zika" during a street carnival on Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016, at which agents of the city's health secretary distributed kits with information about Zika virus. Originally from Africa, Zika spread to Asia and was first registered in Brazil in the middle of last year, spreading like wildfire through the northeast thanks in part to the region's widespread poverty, equatorial heat and chronic infestations of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which also spreads dengue fever and chikungunya. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) The Associated Press
Cam Newton smiles as he gets off the plane at the Mineta San Jose International Airport as they arrive for the NFL Super Bowl football game Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016, in San Jose, Calif. The Panthers play the Denver Broncos on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2015, in Super Bowl 50. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) The Associated Press
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