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Also: A Congressional staffer takes the rostrum for a bizarre rant; Caroline Kennedy is confirmed as the next U.S. Ambassador to Japan; a trial on Michigan's ban on gay marriage is set for next February; and it's earthquake drill day.

Also: U.S. spied on United Nations, German media report; jurors to soon begin weighing death penalty for Fort Hood killer; George Zimmerman will ask state of Florida to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills.

Also: The Senate wades into the complicated budget battle; Chrysler files for an initial public offering; and the man who won last week's $400 million Powerball wants to remain anonymous.

Also: Some senators continue talks ahead of the looming federal debt ceiling crisis; South Dakota ranchers lose thousands of cattle to this month's blizzard; two tropical storms churn just off Mexico's Pacific coast; and the Nobel Prize in Economics goes to three Americans.

Also: several car bombs in Baghdad kill many people; the Taliban kidnap a female Afghan lawmaker; the destructive Idaho wildfire is expensive to fight; and now that small amounts of marijuana are legal in Washington state, Seattle police will hand out Doritos at a weekend pot festival.

Also: there's deadly flash flooding in Colorado; fewer homes entered foreclosure in August; and more than a million people form a human chain in Spain to demand independence in Catalonia.

Also: Mexico gets more rain; the shooter at the Family Research Council is sentenced; militants in Yemen kill several soldiers; and Nintendo's former CEO has died - he broadened the company's reach.

Also: There's a report that two people have been arrested in last week's Chicago mass shooting; Congress' budget stalemate continues; a deadly typhoon crashes into southern China; 'Breaking Bad' and other Emmy winners; and the last VW van is close to rolling off the line.

Also: the two FBI agents killed in a training accident were members of an elite team; severe weather continues across the nation's midsection; car bombs kill dozens in Iraq; and the Powerball winner is still a mystery.

Also: The Justice Department's chief environmental crimes officer is stepping down; a House panel holds a hearing on Benghazi; a ship hits a tower in a deadly Italian port collision; and a Grammy-winning rocker is arrested in an alleged plot to kill his estranged wife.