Top Stories: Feisty Vice Presidential Debate; Nobel Prize In Chemistry

Good morning, here are our early stories:

-- Biggest Prize In Chemistry Goes To Designers Of The Smallest Machines.

-- VP Debate Throws Another Curve Into 2016's Long And Winding Road.

-- Labor Report Urges Study Of A Federal Role In State Workers' Comp Laws.

And here are more early headlines:

Hurricane Matthew Lashes Cuba, Heads North Toward U.S. ()

REPORT: Yahoo Secretly Reviewed Users' Emails For U.S. Intelligence. (Reuters)

Russia Deploys Missile Defense System To Syrian Port. (BBC)

Afghan Donor Conference Opens In Brussels. (ABC)

New Jersey Lawmakers To Vote On Boosting Gas Tax By 23 Cents. (Asbury Park Press)

Investigators Have 2nd Train Recorder From Hoboken Crash. (CBS)

Federal Appeals Panel Hearing Dakota Access Pipeline Case. (AP)

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