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10 Things to Know for Today

Posted January 18, 2017 6:00 am

By The Associated Press

Grace Nathan, whose mother Anne Daisy was on board the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370, shows a photograph of her searching for debris in Madagascar last year during an interview at a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. Some relatives of Flight 370's passengers expressed anger, disappointment and a resolve to press authorities to resume their efforts and find out exactly what happened. Others said they understood that the search, the most expensive of its kind in aviation history, had to come to an end. (AP Photo/Lim Huey Teng) The Associated Press

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

1. EMBRACING CLEMENCY POWERS LIKE NEVER BEFORE

Obama is planning more commutations after a dramatic move to cut short convicted leaker Chelsea Manning's sentence. OBAMA-CLEMENCY

2. WHAT'S AT STAKE IN TRUMP'S INAUGURAL SPEECH

Will the president-elect convey a unifying message for a divided nation or play up his persona as a disrupter of the established order? TRUMP-INAUGURATION-SPEECH

3. FLIGHT 370: CLUES BYPASSED

Some are questioning how investigators may have missed opportunities by failing to organize coastal searches for the remnants that drifted to distant shorelines. MALAYSIA-MISSING PLANE-DEBRIS CLUES

4. HEALTH SECRETARY PICK FACING SCRUTINY

Tom Price is facing pointed questions about Trump's health policies - and his own investments in health care companies. TRUMP-HEALTH SECRETARY

5. PROSECUTOR: ORLANDO GUNMAN'S WIDOW KNEW ABOUT ATTACK

Noor Salman is indicted on charges of aiding and abetting Omar Mateen in the months before the rampage at the Pulse nightclub that left 49 people dead. ORLANDO SHOOTER'S WIFE

6. LARGE SWATHS OF GAZA STRIP PLUNGE INTO DARKNESS

The power shortages are the worst to hit Gaza since Hamas seized control of the territory 10 years ago. GAZA-IN THE DARK

7. FOR DRIVERLESS CARS, A MORAL DILEMMA

MIT researchers ask human drivers how they'd handle life-or-death decisions in hopes of creating better algorithms to guide autonomous vehicles. SELF-DRIVING CARS-ETHICS

8. GLOBAL WARMING COULD STEAL POSTCARD-PERFECT DAYS

Rio de Janeiro, Miami and much of Africa are projected to have more inclement weather, while Europe and Seattle will gain nicer conditions. FEWER MILD DAYS

9. WHO WON TOP BOOK PRIZE

Crystal Wilkinson, who explored generations of black women in a fictional Southern township, wins the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. BOOKS-GAINES AWARD-WILKINSON

10. COOPERSTOWN READY FOR NEXT ENSHRINEMENT

Tim Raines and Jeff Bagwell are likely to be voted into baseball's Hall of Fame. Trevor Hoffman and Ivan Rodriguez, too, might make the grade. HALL-OF-FAME

Markeith Loyd is transported from the Orlando Police headquarters to Orlando Regional Medical Center after being captured earlier in the evening in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. The suspect in the fatal shooting of an Orlando police officer was captured Tuesday night after eluding a massive manhunt for more than a week, authorities said. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel via AP) The Associated Press

In this Monday, Jan. 16, 2017 photo, Palestinian vendors attach lights to their carts, on the right side of a dark road, during a power cut as the sun sets over Gaza City. At night, large swaths of the Gaza Strip plunge into darkness _ the result of chronic and worsening power outages. In crowded city streets, the only source of light comes from the headlights of passing cars. The power shortages are the worst to hit Gaza since Hamas seized control of the territory 10 years ago. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra) The Associated Press

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