From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh.

 

　　Egyptians filled Cairo's Tahrir square are about tens of thousands, some setting off fireworks in an atmosphere where pro- and anti-government activists risking at explosive confrontation. The military has given president Mohamed Mursi and his rivals until tomorrow to settle their political disputes, or the military says it will do it for them. Meanwhile the Pentagon is declining despite delay about what might happen in the Egypt should the country's embattled president fail to offer political concessions to the opposition by the Wednesday deadline. That was set by the Egyptian military. NPR's Craig Windham reports some of president Obama's top national security advisors have been meeting to discuss a way forward in Egypt.

 

　　The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff has reportedly spoken with his Egyptian counterpart. General Martin Dempsey is set to appointed out that US laws require a cut in assistance in most situations if the country's militaries involved in a coup. Pentagon spokesman  George Little declined to speculate about what would happen if there were to be a coup. He says the US wants to see an easing of tensions in Egypt and a halt to the violence there.

 

　　The hope from the United States is that, this is resolving a peaceable manner in that democratic transition process from the head.

 

　　Little did not say whether the US has got many commitment from Egypt's military to provide security for Americans at the US embassy if the showdown in Egypt intensifies. Craig Windham NPR News, Washington.

 

　　In Syria today, anger over the latest government shelling over a rebel held suburb of the capital Damascus, local anti-government activists say at least 11 people were killed.

 

　　The hundreds of fire fighters are bracing for wind gust more powerful than those which fund a massive wildfire in central Arizona that killed 19 of their comrades on Sunday. Expert, Sture Tunerxxx, describes just how the dangerous the conditions can get.

 

　　Once the winds kick up, it really starts become a problem that it's very difficult to control the fire and get after it. so the winds are going to be critical today, we see what happens with that.

 

　　So far the fire in Yarnell has scorched more than 8,400 acres. Hundreds of residents remain evacuated.

 

　　Deaths from drug overdoses are rising fastest among middle age women. That's the warning today from centers for disease control and prevention. Doctor TomsFreedenxx, says the drug of choices usually prescription pain killers.

 

　　Just conclusion drug overdose deaths have skyrocketed in women. Mothers, wives, sisters and daughters are dying from overdoses at reached that we have never seen before.

 

　　The CDC says the number and rate of pain killer overdose deaths among females increased five fold from 1999 to 2010, among men that was about 3.5 times.

 

　　Before the closing bell, Dow was down 43 at 14,932. This is NPR News.

 

　　Single fathers now had a record 8% of household with minor children. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports their ranks are growing faster than those of single mothers.

 

　　The Pure Research center finds the share of single fathers has increase nine-fold since 1960. In fact, they now make up nearly a quarter of all single parents households. Pure Researcher GratchLivingsinxx, says single dads on average are at bit elder than single mothers.

 

　　They have a little less of education, but they actually turn to have quite a bit higher household income and they are much less lightly to be in poverty.

 

　　Pure finds 4 in 10 single fathers actually live with a partner that's more than twice the share of cohabiting single mothers. Jennifer Ludden, NPR News Washington.

 

　　The late Pope John Paul III reportedly is only one step away from sainthood. The Athens news agency says a commission of cardinals in bishops at the Vatican have approved John Paul's case. He may be canonized on December 8th, a major faith day for the Roman catholic church.

 

　　Turning to the economy in the US, it may be feeling more like a sell's market these days if may spring buying numbers from Cologic-running indication. The real estate data provider says prices rose more than 12% in May from a year ago in nearly every state, except Alabama and Delaware. The biggest increase was in Nevada, which in recent years led state's on foreclosures. Cologic says prices in May rose 26% in the southwestern state, followed by California, Arizona, Hawaii and Oregon.

 

　　At last check on Wall Street, Dow Jones Industrial Average down 43 at 14,932; NASDAQ was off slightly at 3,433 and the S&P 500 down one at 1,614. This is NPR.