Today's Headlines -- Thursday

• Stocks plunge as economic, Europe worries continue (AP)
• Va. Tech lifts campus alert after report of gunman (AP)
• Syrian siege of Hama raises humanitarian concerns (AP)
• Unemployment aid applications tick down to 400K (AP)
• Kraft Foods plans to split into 2 companies (AP)
• 36M lbs. of turkey recalled in salmonella outbreak (AP)
• Polygamist leader's Texas trial goes to jury (AP)
• Obama celebrates 50th birthday at White House (AP)
• Documents: NY child slaying suspect 'heard voices' (AP)
• Famine's devastation: 4 dead children, 1 family (AP)
• Wall Street tumbles on concerns over Europe (Reuters)
• GM profit nearly doubles, slowdown risk ahead (Reuters)
• Jobs, retail sales data support recovery hopes (Reuters)
• BNY Mellon imposes fee on rapidly growing deposits (Reuters)
• Special report: How Washington took the U.S. to the brink (Reuters)
• Kraft's Rosenfeld breaking up food giant she built (Reuters)
• Dozens die, thousands flee Syrian tank assault in Hama (Reuters)
• Euro zone policymakers fail to extinguish market fire (Reuters)
• US, Russian have strong words for Syria's Assad (AFP)
• Famine to engulf all of southern Somalia: UN (AFP)