- 10 Things to Know-Wednesday
 - India makes history with successful Mars Orbiter Mission
 - Challenging Mississippi’s depraved justice system: Months in jail, with no indictment and no lawyer
 - 10 Things to Know for Today
 - The 5 happiest (and saddest) states in America
 - 5 new lows for Wal-Mart — just this month
 - Who profits from our new war? Inside NSA and private contractors’ secret plans
 - America’s dark economic secret: How a giant gimmick has wages and jobs hanging by a thread
 - Robert Reich: Bankruptcy laws reward Donald Trump, screw over the rest of us
 - Apocalypse then and now: Why Iraq is America’s greatest quagmire
 - Morning midterms update: Nate Silver gives GOP edge to take Senate – with a caveat
 - Arne Duncan’s “staggering statement”: Why ed reformers are having second thoughts
 - Suspect charged in case of missing UVa student
 - White House’s air war in Syria gets criticism — from the left
 - Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart mocks Syria action as “iPhone 6 of wars”
 - “The first thing I thought was they killed my baby”: NYPD officer throws pregnant woman to the ground
 - Why this week’s Wall Street protests were a huge missed opportunity
 - “Pabst is America!”: Stephen Colbert laments the sale of PBR to the Russians
 - Senate Democrats push increased access to emergency contraception for rape victims
 - “SNL” only wants Chris Pratt for his abs, according to “SNL” promos
 - GOP is still Mitt Romney’s party: Why it can’t quit attacking the 47 percent
 - AP Top Sports News At 9:46 a.m. EDT
 - Watch Stephen Colbert and Naomi Klein debate capitalism, climate change and Canada
 - Jimmy Fallon schooled by Kerry Washington in epic “Box of Lies”
 - The Emma Watson threat was an offensive hoax
 - Rush Limbaugh inadvertently donated to an abortion fund
 - No Labels’ latest absurdity: Weird “endorse-everyone!” edition
 - Where is the actual black ish on “Black-ish”?
 - Ferguson erupts in protests after Michael Brown memorial burns
 - The right’s new religious war: Why they see ISIS as Christianity’s big threat
 - Obama’s U.N. speech: We won’t be “an occupying power”
 - Food waste in the United States is out of control
 - No God in our house: Challenges of an atheist parent
 - The 8 biggest Apple disasters of all time: Where does the “bending” iPhone fall?
 - John Oliver’s amazing Miss America takedown raises huge money for scholarship fund
 - “How to Get Away With Murder” isn’t even about Viola Davis
 - The media’s dumb criticism ban: Why we must stop cutting government slack during war
 - CVS illegally charged 11,000 women for birth control
 - Fox News ‘expert’: Climate change scientists are living in a “fantasy world”
 - Dispatch from a desperate planet: Historic Climate Summit leaves terrifying questions unresolved
 - New York Times covers Chris Christie’s waistline – but not his multibillion-dollar pension firestorm
 - James Franco’s “SNL” documentary to debut Friday
 - Giffords scores big win vs. NRA: How her “mean” ads swayed a Republican
 - Report: Apple was told of holes in iCloud security six months ago
 - Feminism’s ugly internal clash: Why its future is not up to white women
 - Newspaper apologizes for calling hockey player “dark guy in the middle” in photo caption
 - MIT frat alumni president: “Drunk female guests are the gravest threat to fraternities”
 - Watch Irish people taste American junk food and feel ashamed
 - Liberal hawks still don’t get it: The worthlessness of their good intentions
 - How high school is teaching civil disobedience
 - GOP gubernatorial candidate calls reporter “sweetheart” on air, dismisses her question about domestic violence
 - GOP terrified of Kansas fiasco: How they’re desperately trying to save Senate seat
 - Obama to the UN: “We have our own racial and ethnic tensions”
 - NYT executive editor Dean Baquet: “I have an obligation to diversify the staff”
 - Southern Baptist Convention kicks out church for being too tolerant of LGBT members
 - Amazing: Watch someone get a tattoo in slow motion
 - Water vapor and clear skies discovered on Neptune-sized planet
 - Dinesh D’Souza’s pathetic persecution complex: No, he isn’t the victim of a government conspiracy!
 - Virgin America flight diverted because of masturbating passenger
 - Another blow for BP: Judge rules businesses can keep oil spill payouts
 - Let me be Lil Miss Hot Mess: Facebook took away my stage name
 - The 3 biggest myths about pornography, debunked by Belle Knox
 - “Ben and I owe everything to him”: Matt Damon tells Katie Couric he was shocked by the death of Robin Williams
 - Cannon backfires at Fort McHenry in Baltimore
 - Hilary Mantel is not a terrorist: Debunking the ludicrous right-wing backlash to her short story
 - Viggo Mortensen on “Lord of the Rings” — and playing an American at last
 - Lies the media repeats about Iraq: Phony patriotism, fake Syrian “moderates” and the very real end of empire