"Syrian security forces opened fire Friday on thousands of protesters in the southern city of Daraa, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens," witnesses tell The Associated Press.

The BBC also says it's been told of 13 deaths.

Reuters is reporting that "at least 10 people were killed," according to "a hospital source."

Steady as you go on ADHD medicines.

The Food and Drug Administration has finally received data from a massive analysis of health records to tease out whether there is a link between normal use of ADHD medicines and potentially lethal heart problems. And, for now, the FDA says it's not recommending any changes in safety instruction or use of such popular meds as Vyvanse and Adderall.

This story from South Carolina may break your heart:

This exclusive moved on the Associated Press wire this morning:

" 'Black sites,' the secret network of jails that grew up after the Sept. 11 attacks, are gone. But suspected terrorists are still being held under hazy circumstances with uncertain rights in secret, military-run jails across Afghanistan, where they can be interrogated for weeks without charge, according to U.S. officials who revealed details of the top-secret network to The Associated Press."

It was certainly a shocker, as our colleague Frank James says over at It's All Politics, when it was announced Thursday that what was thought to be a skintight race for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat was instead looking like an easy win for the incumbent Republican.

So what happened to turn what was a 204-vote lead for Democrat JoAnne Kloppenberg into a 7,500-plus votes advantage for Justice David Prosser, a Republican?

The Internal Revenue Service has awarded a Pennsylvania accountant $4.5 million because he blew the whistle on his own employer — an act that "netted the IRS $20 million in taxes and interest," The Associated Press reports.

According to the AP, "the accountant filed a complaint with the IRS in 2007, just as the IRS Whistleblower Office opened, but heard nothing for two years." So he hired a lawyer to help push the case. That lawyer, Eric Young of Blue Bell, Pa., declines to identify his client or the company he worked for.

The stories keep coming about what could be some grisly and disturbing discoveries along the coasts of Hawaii and the western U.S. for the next several years.

Congressional leaders and President Obama reached a budget agreement a little more than an hour before a midnight deadline for avoiding a partial shutdown of the federal government. The agreement, which would slash about $38 billion in spending this year, was announced separately by the president, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).

In a Buffalo, N.Y., cemetery, a female goose who lost her mate is getting support from a male deer. She spends her days nesting by an urn. He circles the spot, on-guard if others approach. The man in charge of the Forest Lawn Cemetery sees it as love: "one creature of the Lord looking out after another creature of the Lord."

Eight decades after he first dreamed of it, Anthony Smith of London made a journey across the Atlantic to the Caribbean on a sail-powered raft piled high with oranges, avocados and other food. There was a water supply and even a small oven. Halfway through the journey, Smith celebrated his 85th birthday with a chocolate cake baked on board.