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The gunman in Thursday's shooting at Northern Illinois University had stopped taking his medication and became erratic before opening fire inside a lecture hall, police say. Five people were killed before Stephen Kazmierczack killed himself.

Tim and Paul Daly are identical twins. They shared almost everything in childhood, including the genes that predisposed them to diabetes. But, because of small differences in exercise and weight, one brother developed diabetes and the other did not.

As the official holiday shopping season gets underway, we'll look at how local retailers are doing and what's ahead for December.

Around the nation today, the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was marked with prayers, solemn ceremonies, vows to remember the nearly 3,000 victims and pledges to never let terrorists fundamentally change the American way of life.

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What new information could lead 16 intelligence agencies to change their conclusions on Iran? New York Times reporter Mark Mazzetti talks with Melissa Block about how the NIE came together — and what the new estimate says about changes in the intelligence community.

From 1976 to 1983, a vicious military dictatorship ruled Argentina. Among its crimes: taking hundreds of babies from their biological parents — political prisoners who then "disappeared." A group of determined grandmothers has been seeking to identify these stolen orphans.

Faced with a potential government shutdown, the Senate votes to raise the nation's debt limit for the fourth time in five years, to $9 trillion. That's about $30,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States. The debt now stands at more than $8.2 trillion.

The opposition leader of Equatorial Guinea is in a Spanish jail. Severo Moto was arrested in connection with an alleged plot to overthrow the oil-rich country's government using a shipment of weapons intercepted in Spain. Equatorial Guinea is Africa's third largest exporter of crude oil.

A U.S. soldier has pleaded guilty to the rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, and to the killing of her family. He is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday at Fort Campbell in Kentucky.