10 Things to Know for Today, Oct. 4

The Associated Press  Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. AMERICAN DIPLOMATS DANGLED TRUMP MEETING FOR UKRAINE PROBE Kurt Volker and other U.S. envoys encouraged Kyiv’s newly elected president to conduct an investigation linked to Joe Biden’s family in return for a visit to Washington with President Trump. 2. HOW GOP IS RESPONDING TO TRUMP Republican leaders have two reactions to Trump’s public call for a foreign government to investigate political rival Joe Biden: silence and support. 3. HONG KONG LEADER BANS MASKS Carrie Lam bans protesters from wearing masks in a hardening of the government’s stance on the territory’s most disruptive crisis since it reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. 4. HUNDREDS OF