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Also: A recount is expected in Atlanta's mayoral election; a plot is reportedly thwarted to kill the U.K. prime minister; and the federal government will partly close unless a spending bill passes.

Also: The world's largest lithium ion battery is switched on in Australia; the latest on the Senate's tax overhaul bill; and a Pennsylvania man will stop playing "Taps" on speakers outside his house.

Also: Wall Street opens higher after a huge loss on Thursday; a significant winter storm pounds the upper Plains and Midwest; and L.L. Bean dumps its lifetime return policy.

The morning's stories include GOP contender Herman Cain responding again to what he says are false sexual harassment allegations. Also, regulators are reportedly looking into what MF Global did with hundreds of millions of dollars.

Also: More shelling in the Syrian city of Homs; Yemenis vote in single-candidate presidential election; Stephen Colbert returns to the airwaves.

Also: Los Angeles removes entire staff at elementary school where two teachers are suspected of sexually abusing students; Republicans hold presidential caucuses today in Colorado and Minnesota.

Also: Inflation remains in check; mayor of Newark, N.J., helps evacuate burning home; Obama sticks up for Ann Romney.

The Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to an Israeli scientist who discovered quasicrystals. In Greece, protests resume over austerity measures. And the Texas Rangers move on to the American League championship series.

Authorities are trying to track down all the lions, tigers, bears and other creatures that escaped from a preserve in Zanesville, Ohio. In Greece, unions are protesting austerity measures.

Also: Israel downplays talk of attack on Iran; latest poll puts Romney atop GOP field; fuel delivery going smoothly in Nome, Alaska.