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Today's Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines: Senate clears fiscal cliff measure U.S., Europe hope the new year brings better times Clinton's blood clot located in her head; full recovery expected Sour end to 2012 masks positive trends in America Report details changes in Benghazi explanations Same-sex marriage ceremonies begin in Maryland U.S. House aims to split Sandy aid bill into two parts Boehner: No decision on accepting 'cliff' pact 'Fiscal cliff' deal to block pay hike for Congress Suspect in NYC subway death arrested before Survivors of fatal Ore. bus crash say some ejected Venezuela's Chavez in stable condition, says son-in-law NYC bomb suspects had 'terrorist encyclopedia' 'Rings' trilogy sound editor Hopkins dies in NZ 13 new space missions to watch in 2013 New, oddball state laws to take effect on Jan. 1 Members-only marijuana clubs open in Colorado FDA approves 1st new tuberculosis drug in 40 years Top Afghan negotiator optimistic over peace prospects Beer, liquor never sicker? Hangover cures, myths Pop quiz: What does 'Auld Lang Syne' mean? A portrait of the procrastivoters of 2012 election

Senate clears fiscal cliff measure  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 11:09 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The Senate has passed legislation to block the impact of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts that make up the fiscal cliff. Full Story	Top
U.S., Europe hope the new year brings better times  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 11:16 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) â€" From the glittering New Year's ball dropping in Times Square to joyous fireworks in London and cheers in a once-isolated Asian country, the world did its best to ring in 2013 with hope for renewal after a year of economic uncertainty, searing violence and natural disasters. Full Story	Top
Clinton's blood clot located in her head; full recovery expected  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 02:00 PM PST Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is "making excellent progress" recovering from a blood clot in her head that was discovered during a medical examination, her doctors said Monday. But Clinton remains hospitalized until a proper medication level is established, they said. A day after announcing that Clinton had been admitted to a New York [...] Full Story	Top
Sour end to 2012 masks positive trends in America  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 05:53 PM PST CHICAGO (Reuters) - Many Americans seem to be in a sour mood as 2013 begins, after Hurricane Sandy ravaged parts of the East Coast, a gunman massacred 20 school children in Connecticut and a long, contentious election campaign was followed by failure to resolve the "fiscal cliff" issue by year-end. Americans have not been very optimistic since the Great Recession of 2008-2009, but the gloom had begun to lift this year until the blast of bad news as 2012 ended, IPSOS pollster Cliff Young said on Monday. IPSOS polling showed that some angst set in as the year ended. ... Full Story	Top
Report details changes in Benghazi explanations  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 03:55 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies â€" but not the White House â€" made major changes in talking points that led to the Obama administration's confusing explanations of the attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, a Senate report concluded Monday. Full Story	Top
Same-sex marriage ceremonies begin in Maryland  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 10:34 PM PST BALTIMORE (AP) â€" Same-sex couples in Maryland were greeted with cheers and noisemakers held over from New Year's Eve parties, as gay marriage became legal in the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line on New Year's Day. Full Story	Top
U.S. House aims to split Sandy aid bill into two parts  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:54 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to split a $60.4 billion Superstorm Sandy disaster aid bill into two parts, staging votes on $27 billion to fund immediate recovery needs and $33 billion for long-term and other projects, Republican lawmakers and aides said on Monday. The plan for votes on Tuesday or Wednesday would meet the demands of many Republican lawmakers to vote on a smaller initial package of aid for victims of the October 29 storm that devastated New York and New Jersey coastlines. ... Full Story	Top
Boehner: No decision on accepting 'cliff' pact  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:38 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-nur) and his leadership team say they need to review a Senate pact that would increase taxes on incomes exceeding $400,000 before deciding to schedule a vote on the measure or try to change it. Full Story	Top
'Fiscal cliff' deal to block pay hike for Congress  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:18 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Legislation to prevent the government from going over the so-called fiscal cliff will also block a $900 automatic pay hike for members of Congress. Full Story	Top
Suspect in NYC subway death arrested before  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 04:42 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) â€" The family of a woman accused of shoving a man to his death in front of a subway train called police several times in the past five years because she had not been taking prescribed medication and was difficult to deal with, authorities said Monday. Full Story	Top
Survivors of fatal Ore. bus crash say some ejected  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:07 PM PST PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) â€" Survivors of a bus crash that killed nine people on a partly icy section of interstate in rural Eastern Oregon said Monday some passengers were thrown from the vehicle through broken windows after it skidded out of control, smashed through a guardrail and plummeted 200 feet down an embankment. Full Story	Top
Venezuela's Chavez in stable condition, says son-in-law  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:34 PM PST CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in stable condition and spent Monday with his daughters, the cancer-stricken leader's son in law said in an appeal for supporters to ignore rumors about his condition. Chavez has not been seen in public nor heard from in more than three weeks. The vice president said on Sunday that the 58-year-old was suffering a third set of complications after surgery in Cuba on December 11, his fourth operation in 18 months. ... Full Story	Top
NYC bomb suspects had 'terrorist encyclopedia'  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 10:06 AM PST Police arrested a couple on Saturday after authorities investigating a credit card theft found a highly explosive compound, bomb-making manuals, a sawed-off shotgun and ammunition. Full Story	Top
'Rings' trilogy sound editor Hopkins dies in NZ  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 10:18 PM PST WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) â€" Oscar-winning sound editor Mike Hopkins, who worked on the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and other Peter Jackson films, has died in a rafting accident in New Zealand. He was 53. Full Story	Top
13 new space missions to watch in 2013  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:25 AM PST This year has been a busy one for space missions, and it looks like next year will ramp things up even more. Full Story	Top
New, oddball state laws to take effect on Jan. 1  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:19 AM PST Many new, unusual state laws will take effect when the ball drops at midnight and millions of Americans ring in the New Year, including one that will limit the number of cats in a household. Full Story	Top
Members-only marijuana clubs open in Colorado  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:14 PM PST DENVER (AP) â€" Recreational marijuana clubs opened Monday in Colorado, less than a month after the state governor signed into law a constitutional amendment allowing recreational pot use. Full Story	Top
FDA approves 1st new tuberculosis drug in 40 years  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:05 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a Johnson & Johnson tuberculosis drug that is the first new medicine to fight the deadly infection in more than four decades. Full Story	Top
Top Afghan negotiator optimistic over peace prospects  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 09:32 PM PST KABUL (Reuters) - A top Afghan peace negotiator said he was cautiously optimistic about prospects for reconciliation with the Taliban and that all sides now realized a military solution to the war was not possible. Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai also told Reuters that the Kabul government hoped to transform the Afghan Taliban, who have proved resilient after more than a decade of war against U.S.-led NATO and Afghan troops, into a political movement. ... Full Story	Top
Beer, liquor never sicker? Hangover cures, myths  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:26 AM PST After the Times Square ball drops on New Year's Eve and copious amounts of Champagne get toasted and drunk, many might find themselves forgetting more "auld acquaintances" than they intended and waking up to 2013 with a vicious hangover. Full Story	Top
Pop quiz: What does 'Auld Lang Syne' mean?  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:40 AM PST Here it is. The answer to a perennial question of what on earth does "Auld Lang Syne" mean? Full Story	Top
A portrait of the procrastivoters of 2012 election  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:45 AM PST New research has turned up a curious subspecies of the electorate: Those who felt it was worth deciding whom to vote for, but not until the last 24 of the 5,040 hours of the campaign. Full Story	Top

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Today's Most Popular News Headlines - Yahoo! News: AP Sources: 'Fiscal cliff' deal emerging Tentative ‘fiscal cliff’ deal reached in Senate House won't vote before midnight on 'cliff' deal "Fiscal cliff" tumble looms despite Senate efforts Analysis: Deal or No Deal, 'Cliff' Debate Will Linger Into 2013 AP IMPACT: Al-Qaida carves out own country in Mali List: No love for 'fiscal cliff,' 'spoiler alert' What Does 'Auld Lang Syne' Mean? Doctors: Clinton making ‘excellent progress’ in treatment for blood clot Hangover Cures and Myths State Department made "grievous mistake" over Benghazi: Senate report New Year Welcomes Oddball State Laws Congress won’t make midnight ‘fiscal cliff’ deadline Chavez suffers new complications in cancer fight In Indian student's gang rape, murder, two worlds collide Suspect in NYC subway death arrested before Progress seen in last-minute 'fiscal cliff' talks Colleges help students scrub online footprints 9 killed, more than 2 dozen hurt when charter tour bus veers off icy highway in eastern Oregon Analysis: Fiscal Cliff Breach Makes Sense for Pols Desperate for weapons, Syrian rebels make their own, fix tanks NYC couple arrested; explosive substance found New York bomb suspects had "terrorist encyclopedia" Kanye West, Kim Kardashian expecting 1st child Did Obama Just Make an Assassination Reference? 9 die as tour bus crashes on icy Oregon highway

AP Sources: 'Fiscal cliff' deal emerging  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 12:06 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Working with Congress against a midnight deadline, President Barack Obama said Monday that a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" was in sight but not yet finalized. The emerging deal would raise tax rates on family income over $450,000 and individual income over $400,000 a year, increase the estate tax rate and extend unemployment benefits for one year. Full Story	Top
Tentative ‘fiscal cliff’ deal reached in Senate  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 04:53 PM PST With 2013 just over 2 hours old, the Senate voted 89-8 on Tuesday to approve a last-minute deal to avert income tax hikes on all but the richest Americans and stall painful spending cuts as part of a hard-fought compromise to avoid the economically toxic “fiscal cliff.” The country had already technically tumbled over the [...] Full Story	Top
House won't vote before midnight on 'cliff' deal  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 01:20 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" The House will miss the midnight Monday deadline lawmakers set for voting to avoid the "fiscal cliff." Full Story	Top
"Fiscal cliff" tumble looms despite Senate efforts  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 03:36 PM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States was on track to tumble over the "fiscal cliff" at midnight on Monday, at least for a day, as lawmakers held back from supporting an eleventh-hour plan from Senate leaders to avert severe tax increases and spending cuts. The U.S. House of Representatives looked unlikely to vote on a Senate "fiscal cliff" plan before midnight, possibly pushing a legislative decision into New Year's Day, when financial markets will be closed. The plan was heavy on tax increases and light on spending cuts, which was unlikely to appeal to Republicans in the House. ... Full Story	Top
Analysis: Deal or No Deal, 'Cliff' Debate Will Linger Into 2013  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 03:00 AM PST Analysis The fiscal cliff is just the beginning. Regardless of whether Democrats and Republicans reach some kind of last-minute bargain to avoid the worst effects of tax hikes and spending cuts, the disaster that has been the fiscal cliff negotiations has broad implications for the... Full Story	Top
AP IMPACT: Al-Qaida carves out own country in Mali  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 12:59 PM PST MOPTI, Mali (AP) â€" Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the escarpments and cliff faces of northern Mali, Islamic fighters are burrowing into the earth, erecting a formidable set of defenses to protect what has essentially become al-Qaida's new country. Full Story	Top
List: No love for 'fiscal cliff,' 'spoiler alert'  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 05:32 AM PST DETROIT (AP) â€" Spoiler alert: This story contains words and phrases that some people want to ban from the English language. "Spoiler alert" is among them. So are "kick the can down the road," ''trending" and "bucket list." Full Story	Top
What Does 'Auld Lang Syne' Mean?  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 07:10 AM PST Here it is. The answer to a perennial question of what on earth does “Auld Lang Syne” mean? The confusion over the song is arguably almost as much of a tradition as the song itself. As revelers stumble and mumble through the versesâ€"singing the “auld... Full Story	Top
Doctors: Clinton making ‘excellent progress’ in treatment for blood clot  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 02:00 PM PST Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is "making excellent progress" recovering from a blood clot in her head that was discovered during a medical examination, her doctors said Monday. But Clinton remains hospitalized until a proper medication level is established, they said. A day after announcing that Clinton had been admitted to a New York [...] Full Story	Top
Hangover Cures and Myths  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 03:00 AM PST After the Times Square ball drops on New Year’s Eve and copious amounts of Champagne get  toasted and drunk, many might find themselves  forgetting more ”auld acquaintances” than they intended and waking up to  2013 with a vicious hangover. A hangover is essentially a build-up of acetaldehyde, a toxin in... Full Story	Top
State Department made "grievous mistake" over Benghazi: Senate report  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 10:23 AM PST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department made a "grievous mistake" in keeping the U.S. mission in Benghazi open despite inadequate security and increasingly alarming threat assessments in the weeks before a deadly attack by militants, a Senate committee said on Monday. A report from the Senate Homeland Security Committee on the September 11 attacks on the U.S. mission and a nearby CIA annex, in which the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans died, faulted intelligence agencies for not focusing tightly enough on Libyan extremists. ... Full Story	Top
New Year Welcomes Oddball State Laws  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 04:28 AM PST Many new, unusual state laws will take effect when the ball drops at midnight and millions of Americans ring in the New Year, including one that will limit the number of cats in a household. Turns out 2013 will be unlucky for cat lovers in... Full Story	Top
Congress won’t make midnight ‘fiscal cliff’ deadline  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 02:08 PM PST America is going over the “fiscal cliff” â€" for a few minutes, or hours, at the very least. Don't panic. There's no need to move the family into the Doomsday bunker in the backyard. Yet. While President Barack Obama and Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have said they are close to a broad agreement [...] Full Story	Top
Chavez suffers new complications in cancer fight  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 04:41 PM PST CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) â€" President Hugo Chavez's new complications after cancer surgery prompted his closest allies to call for Venezuelans to pray for him on Monday, presenting an increasingly bleak outlook and prompting growing speculation about whether the ailing leader has much longer to live. Full Story	Top
In Indian student's gang rape, murder, two worlds collide  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 09:32 AM PST NEW DELHI (Reuters) - One of hundreds of attacks reported in New Delhi each year, the gang rape and murder of a medical student caught Indian authorities and political parties flat-footed, slow to see that the assault on a private bus had come to symbolize an epidemic of crime against women. ... Full Story	Top
Suspect in NYC subway death arrested before  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 04:42 PM PST NEW YORK (AP) â€" The family of a woman accused of shoving a man to his death in front of a subway train called police several times in the past five years because she had not been taking prescribed medication and was difficult to deal with, authorities said Monday. Full Story	Top
Progress seen in last-minute 'fiscal cliff' talks  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:47 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Working against a midnight deadline, negotiators for the White House and congressional Republicans narrowed their differences Monday on legislation to avert across-the-board tax increases. Full Story	Top
Colleges help students scrub online footprints  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 07:08 AM PST BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) â€" Samantha Grossman wasn't always thrilled with the impression that emerged when people Googled her name. Full Story	Top
9 killed, more than 2 dozen hurt when charter tour bus veers off icy highway in eastern Oregon  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 08:50 AM PST PENDLETON, Ore. - A tour bus careened through a guardrail along an icy Oregon highway and 100 feet down a steep embankment Sunday, killing nine people and injuring more than 20 others, authorities said. Full Story	Top
Analysis: Fiscal Cliff Breach Makes Sense for Pols  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 02:37 PM PST Analysis: Fiscal cliff breach bewilders many, but local politics make it logical for lawmakers Full Story	Top
Desperate for weapons, Syrian rebels make their own, fix tanks  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 07:35 AM PST ALEPPO PROVINCE, Syria (Reuters) - At a converted warehouse in the midst of a block of residential homes in a northern Syrian town, men are hard at work at giant lathes, shavings of metal gathering around them. Sacks of potassium nitrate and sugar lie nearby. In a neat row against the wall is the finished product, homemade mortars. Syrian rebels say they have been forced to make them because their calls for heavy weapons and ammunition to fight President Bashar al-Assad have gone unanswered. "No one's giving us any support. ... Full Story	Top
NYC couple arrested; explosive substance found  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 09:06 AM PST NEW YORK (AP) â€" A Manhattan couple was facing weapons charges Monday after authorities said they found a substance used to make bombs and papers titled "The Terrorist Encyclopedia" in their Greenwich Village apartment. Full Story	Top
New York bomb suspects had "terrorist encyclopedia"  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 10:06 AM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police arrested a New York City couple in their apartment on Saturday after authorities investigating a credit card theft found a highly explosive compound, bomb-making manuals, a sawed-off shotgun and ammunition, officials said on Monday. Morgan Gliedman, 27, and Aaron Greene, 31, are being charged with two counts of suspicion of criminal possession of a weapon, for the shotgun, court documents show. One sheaf of papers found in the apartment had a cover page that read "The Terrorist Encyclopedia," according to court documents. ... Full Story	Top
Kanye West, Kim Kardashian expecting 1st child  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 06:23 AM PST ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) â€" A kid for Kimye: Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are expecting their first child. Full Story	Top
Did Obama Just Make an Assassination Reference?  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 11:38 AM PST During an oddly jokey statement at the White House as the fiscal deadline bore down Monday afternoon, President Obama said, "I'm going to be president for the next four years. I hope." He was warning Republicans that, yes, they'd have to deal with him for a while. But it was, to be sure, a strange moment. Could he actually have been joking about assassination? About impeachment? The apocalypse? Or has everyone just had enough of these negotiations?  Full Story	Top
9 die as tour bus crashes on icy Oregon highway  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 09:39 AM PST PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) â€" The stretch of rural Oregon interstate where a tour bus crashed through a guardrail and plummeted 100 feet down a steep embankment is so notorious that state transportation officials have published a specific advisory warning of its dangers. Full Story	Top

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