What to know now:
1. Hillary to testify: Hillary Clinton will testify before the House Select Committee on Benghazi Thursday. She is expected to answer questions about the State Department's response before and after the Sept. 11. 2012 attacks on the diplomatic mission that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others.
2. President to veto defense bill: President Barack Obama says he will veto a defense policy bill Thursday. According to the White House, the president plans to use his veto power because he feels the bill will increase defense spending without increasing domestic spending first.
3. Ryan gets support: The House Freedom Caucus said Wednesday it will be supporting Rep. Paul Ryan, (R-Wisc.), in his bid to be speaker of the House. The endorsement all but gives Ryan -- who laid out his terms for accepting the job earlier this week -- the speakership. However, the group did stress that while they support Ryan, it's not an official endorsement from the group as a whole. Yet.
4. Man arrested in road rage death: A man has been arrested in the death of a 4-year-old who was shot and killed near Albuquerque after an incident of road rage. Tony Torrez, 32, confessed to shooting into a pickup truck and killing Lilly Garcia as she was heading home from school.
5. Feeling the earth move: According to a new study by NASA, there's a 99.9 percent chance of an earthquake hitting the greater Los Angeles area in the next three years. The study said a quake of at least 5.0 is a good bet, but a stronger earthquake is certainly possible.
And one more
The marriage between Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian is back on, according to sources. While the couple split up more than a year ago, they never legally divorced. After Odom was found unconscious in a brothel earlier this month, Kardashian flew to Las Vegas and stayed with him in his hospital room while he recovered. Now the two have reportedly put off the finalization of the split.
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