NEWSPAPERS FRONT PAGE TODAY

• Longtime GOP senator in scramble to hold his seat
  By Philip Rucker
• Murky al-Qaeda cell in Syria is dealt blow but not a knockout, U.S. o∞cials say
  By Karen DeYoung, Greg Miller and Loveday Morris
• FAA poised to approve drones for filmmaking
  By Craig Whitlock
• Like its biggest hit show, CBS succeeds with a proven strategy
  By Cecilia Kang

• The peace president’s call to arms
  By Dana Milbank
• Jury declines to indict officers in shooting at Ohio Wal-Mart
  By Mark Berman
• Student loan default rate dips
  By Nick Anderson
• Walker investigation is allowed to resume
  By Matea Gold and Robert Barnes
• Police, protesters clash once again in Ferguson
• U.S. agrees to pay Navajo Nation record sum
  By Sari Horwitz
• President to expand Pacific Ocean sanctuary
  By Juliet Eilperin
• D.C. consultant continues to wage campaign against union leader
  By Lyndsey Layton

• Indians celebrate a victory in space race
  By Rama Lakshmi
• Rouhani won’t promise help for jailed reporter Iranian leader offers no promise about journalist
  By Anne Gearan
• Alaska legalized weed 39 years ago. Wait, what?
• Scientists hit new milestone in search for water on planets outside our solar system
  By Rachel Feltman
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• In Guatemala, the life migrants leave behind
  By Ed O’Keefe
• Islamic State-linked group beheads French national in Algeria
  By Ishaan Tharoor
• Abbas’s speech might be a watershed moment in Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  By William Booth
• U.S., allies strike refineries in Syria
  By Rebecca Collard and Craig Whitlock
• Britain moves toward action in Iraq
  By Griff Witte and Karla Adam

• Business digest: Sept. 25, 2014
• Suddenly, Carnival flush with earnings
  By Drew Harwell
• Passport isn’t likely to attract converts
• New-home sales surge to six-year high

• Watkins Meegan, larger firm to merge
  By Catherine Ho
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• VA acts on 2012 Lejeune measure