Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday:
1. ISLAMIC STATE DECLARED
The vast territory straddling Syria and Iraq that has been seized by an al-Qaida splinter group will be established as a state, the group announces.
2. OBAMA PICKS VA CHIEF
If confirmed by the Senate, Robert McDonald, a former Proctor & Gamble executive, would succeed Eric Shinseki, who quit last month as head of the struggling agency.