Tensions between Turkey and Syria are turning into a he-said, she-said. Damascus announced a ban of all Turkish civilian planes from flying over Syria beginning midnight on Saturday. A few days ago, Turkey claims it intercepted a plane carrying Russian munitions en route to the Syrian army. The Syrian government denies this, and says Turkey has banned their planes from its airspace. Turkey has not announced a similar no-fly-zone rule, but does say any planes will be grounded if suspect of transporting military cargo.

The second debate hasn’t even happened, and we’re already getting prepped for the third. Moderator Bob Schieffer of CBS News will be discussing issues of foreign policy during the third and final presidential debate Oct. 22. On Saturday, Schieffer announced the five topics he’s selected for the debate: “The Changing Middle East and the New Face of Terrorism,” “Our Longest War—Afghanistan and Pakistan,” “Red Lines—Israel and Iran,” “The Rise of China and Tomorrow’s World,” and last but not least, “America’s Role in the World.” The candidates will have two minutes each for an answer before six minutes of discussion during each segment.

A team of neurological specialists currently treating wounded Pakistani teen activist Malala Yousafzai say that her condition is stable, but “the next 36 to 48 hours are important.” Yousafzai, who was shot in the neck for defending girls' right to attend school, is currently on a ventilator. Military officials are reporting that Yousafzai also showed signs of movement in her limbs Saturday. Meanwhile, Pakistani officials have arrested more than 300 people in connection with Yousafzai’s shooting, but have only 35 of them in custody.

Looks like that whole “donate what you can” grassroots campaign strategy is working for President Obama. The president’s campaign announced Saturday it has just surpassed 4 million donors. The cash the Obama camp has raked in is impressive too—$181 million was raised in September alone. The president’s field director Jeremy Bird says the new number of individual donors sets a new record for a presidential campaign.

Paul Ryan switched line of attack from Libya to China. At a rally in Ohio on Saturday, Ryan told the crowd that Obama has had his chance to label China as a currency manipulator and he hasn’t seized it. The vice-presidential nominee assured that Romney would not allow jobs or property rights to be stolen by the Asian nation. On Friday, the Treasury said it would postpone a report on whether to name China a currency manipulator until after the election. “If people are manipulating our currency, we are going to say that ‘they are manipulating our currency,’” Ryan said. “If they are stealing our products, we are going to say ‘stop stealing our products or else you have consequences.’”

Redbull gives you wings—or at least lets you fall? After gusty winds derailed his two previous attempts, the energy drink–sponsored skydiver Felix Baumgartner has been given the go-ahead Saturday night by meteorologists to make his record-breaking, death-defying jump early Sunday in New Mexico. A helium balloon will hoist the skydiver 23 miles into the sky in an attempt to break the 1960 high-altitude parachuting record and break the sound barrier with his body. “I want to break the speed of sound, no matter what it takes,” he said.

Angelenos driving on the 405 this morning may have been more than a little perplexed about the cause of the slow traffic: a space shuttle was slowly making its way across the road. The Endeavour, which was towed across the freeway Friday night, has begun its final journey: a two-day trip to the California Science Center, where it will be on display. Although the trip is only 12 miles, the shuttle has to travel slowly and wait for power lines to be moved out of its path. The aliens must be pretty confused right now.

Sesame Street is literally taking it to the streets. On Nov. 3—just three days before the presidential election—a  puppet-based protest called the “Million Muppet March” will charge its way down the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The demonstration is an effort to defend PBS from possible extinction after Mitt Romney’s controversial quip at the presidential debate that he would cut funding for the network, despite his love of Big Bird. The two men organizing the march were previously strangers, but discovered each other after one purchased the url millionmuppetmarch.com and the other coincidentally started a Facebook page by the same name.

Actor Gary Collins died Saturday morning in Biloxi, Miss., of natural causes. The 74-year-old left behind his wife, former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley, and three children. Collins was best known for his starring role in the 1970s television series The Sixth Sense, although he had recurring roles and guest turns in a number of other shows, including Friends and Hawaii Five-O. He was also the host of Hour Magazine in the 1980s and emceed the Miss America Pageant from 1985 to 1989.

Could this be Brangelina’s newest cause? At a screening of the new documentary on drug addiction The House I Live In, Brad Pitt—who recently signed on as the film’s executive producer—called America’s “war on drugs” a failure and a “charade.”  "It’s such bad strategy. It makes no sense. It perpetuates itself,” Pitt said. “You make a bust, you drive up profit ... we have to rethink this policy and we have to rethink it now.”

Who’s laughing now? Neilsen ratings released Friday say an estimated 51.4 million Americans tuned in to watch incumbent Joe Biden and vice-presidential hopeful Paul Ryan Thursday. The number is down significantly from 2008, when 69.9 million watched Biden battle it out with Alaska governor Sarah Palin. The executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, Janet Brown, told Politico that the inflated number of viewers in 2008 was an “aberration” likely due to excitement surrounding Palin's candidacy. Nielsen's numbers are based on total viewership on 10 major TV networks, excluding those watching online.

Does this mean Bruce Springsteen is weighing in on the whole birther debate? The “Born in the U.S.A.” singer will appear with President Clinton at a rally for President Obama in Ohio on Thursday, the campaign announced on Saturday. The event will be free and open to the public. Springsteen, a longtime supporter of Obama’s, has an appeal among blue-collar workers, which Obama will have to get the support of if he hopes to win Ohio’s crucial 18 electoral votes. Obama uses Springsteen’s song “We Take Care of Our Own” on the campaign trail.

Someone has a sick way of showing their discontent with the president. A shot was fired through the window of the Obama campaign’s Denver office window on Friday. Police say people were inside at the time of the shooting, but that no one was injured. No information is yet known about the shooter or his or her motives, though there are reports of a possible vehicle of interest. The Obama campaign has so far declined to comment on the incident.

Police in Moscow are searching for two dozen men who donned masks and allegedly attacked one of the city's biggest gay bars on Thursday. Upon entering, the men reportedly shouted at the 50 people in the bar, "You asked for a fight? Now you'll get it." They then began to beat patrons, mostly women, with fists and bottles. One of the alleged attackers pulled a gun on the bartender, and another reportedly sprayed a caustic substance in the face of a patron, now hospitalized. Ten people reported injures, and four were hospitalized. The attack coincided with International Coming Out Day. 

After Biden said that “we weren’t told” Americans requested extra security for the anniversary of September 11^th at the debate, the GOP campaign latched on to the mishandling of the Libya attack to push against their opponents. Congressional testimony shows the administration turned down the request for more security, and the Romney campaign said Friday that Biden was trying “to mislead the American public” about that fact at the vice presidential debate. The White House shot back that Biden’s statements referred to himself, the president, and other top administration members, since diplomatic security requests are handled by the State Department.

After the body of a missing 10-year-old girl was confirmed found in a suburban Denver park, residents of Westminster, CO, are on high alert. “Our focus has changed from the search for Jessica to a mission of justice for Jessica,” Westminster Police Chief Lee Birk said. “We realize there is a predator at large in our community.” Jessica Ridgeway was walking from her home to elementary school, but never arrived. Her body was found after a massive search by hundreds of police officers in a park seven miles away from her home. An FBI spokesman warned the community to be on lookout: “It could be your boss, it could be your friend, and ultimately it could be your family member.”

Some sea monster out there has been having a rough week. A mysterious disembodied eyeball found on a South Florida beach this week probably belonged to a giant squid or a swordfish, marine biologists believe. The eyes of a giant squid can grow to be as big as soccer balls and are easily dislodged. But don't feel bad for the creature it once belonged to—squid can regenerate body parts, including eyes, quite easily. 

Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday that it would give $25 million to a "transition fund" set up by the World Bank to help countries whose economies have been strongly impacted by the Arab Spring. The kingdom is one of a group of countries—including Germany, France, the U.S., Britain, Italy, Russia, Japan, and Canada—known as the Deauville partnership. Together the nations plan to donate $165 million to countries such as Tunisia, Libya, Jordan, Egypt, and Morocco, with an eventual goal of $250 million.

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has called upon his followers to wage holy war against the United States and Israel over the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims. In an audio recording released Saturday, Zawahiri also praises the attackers who stormed the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi in reaction to the film last month as "honest and zealous." Violence sparked by the online release of a trailer for the film has already resulted in 17 deaths and rioting across the Middle East.

Maybe the GOP is trying to make voters forget another option exists? Mitt Romney and his allies are going all-out during the last few weeks of the election, spending large amounts of money on a media surge aimed at burying Obama in advertisements. Romney's super PAC, Restore Our Future, has spent $14 million on ads in nine states for the month of October, and plugs for Romney in swing states have doubled and sometimes tripled. The variety of television spots includes both anti-Obama and pro-Romney stances.

The drug-mixing firm linked to the nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak reportedly broke several state regulations governing the distribution of medication, according to emails revealed to Reuters on Saturday. The New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts allegedly sold drugs to physicians without requiring patient names or proof of prescription in addition to soliciting bulk orders of their products. The contanimated medication associated with the outbreak is a steroid from the company, which has put as many as 14,000 people at risk.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation determined Friday that a body found encased in concrete and buried in a backyard is that of Sean Dugas, a former crime reporter at The Pensacola News Journal  who went missing in August. He was identified with the help of dental records. The alleged perpetrators of the crime are twin brothers William and Christopher Cromier, who traveled from Florida to their father's Georgia home about three weeks ago. They have been charged with murder.

What does this mean for the wedding? A bachelor party on the San Francisco Bay Friday night was forced to cut short their celebration when The Neptune hit a rock and began sinking. A Coast Guard and several other smaller vessels quickly came to the rescue, taking all 18 passengers and four crewmembers to safety. Future groom Matthew Rice, whose wedding is Sunday, said he was the only person really concerned because he “doesn’t like boats.” Well done, friends of the groom. 

One more wrong move from Syria will be one too many. Meeting with the United Nations-Arab League envoy for Syria on Saturday, Turkey’s government announced plans to strike back if its border is crossed again, while Turkish tanks headed toward the Syrian hills. “We will do what’s necessary,” said Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. The fighting between the two countries—which erupted when a Syrian shell killed five in Turkey last week—escalated earlier this week when Turkey intercepted a Syrian-bound plane amid reports that they were carrying Russian-made defense equipment. As Syria’s bloody civil war rages into its 20th month, Turkey’s prime minister attacked the U.N. for its failure to intervene “despite all our efforts.”