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BY STEVEN SPARKMAN

ANCHOR CANDICE AVILES

Here are your Top News Headlines From Newsy.

A man claiming to have a bomb and a gun has taken a hostage in an office building in Pittsburgh. KDKA reports police have blocked off streets near Gateway Center and are attempting to negotiate with the man on Facebook.

“There are serious brass tacks negotiations going on about a surrender, a surrender of the hostage and a surrender of the suspect.”

Government-sponsored protests dubbed the “Day of Love” in Pakistan have turned violent. The BBC reports theaters and cars were burned and several people have been killed in the protest against an anti-Islam video.

“Well, the latest we’ve got confirmed, and there are reports of more, is 17 dead across the country. … Most of the deaths have happened in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi.”

The U.S. is reportedly dropping the People’s Mujahideen of Iran, known as the MEK, from the terror watch list. Fox News reports the MEK has been on the list for years.

“But they are also very much in opposition to the current regime of the ayatollahs there. And so Washington has decided apparently that better to have them on our side.”

The space shuttle Endeavor is on its way to Los Angeles, where it will be put on display at the California Science Center. CNN spoke with Mark Kelly, the Endeavor’s last commander, about the occasion.

“One of the highlights of my career as an astronaut to command the last flight, the 25th flight, of space shuttle Endeavor. And when it lands today it will never be in the air, it’ll be in a museum.”