[U.S.] Negotiators Seek US Budget Deal With Deadline Two Days Off

Negotiators Seek US Budget Deal With Deadline Two Days Off
http://swampland.time.com/2012/12/28/obama-says-immediate-action-needed-on-fiscal-cliff/
With two days left to stop a package of higher taxes and spending cuts neither party wants, Democrats and Republicans are searching for the contours of a deal as lawmakers gather in Washington and President Barack Obama presses his case on television ...

Woman charged with 'hate crime' in US over Indian's killing
http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/woman-charged-with-hate-crime-in-us-over-indians-killing/article4255577.ece
A 31-year-old woman, arrested for shoving an Indian immigrant to his death onto a subway train track in New York, has been charged with murder as a hate crime after she admitted before police that she pushed him because she “hated Hindus and Muslims“.

Las Vegas Police Expect to ID Girl's Body Friday
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/vegas-police-seek-information-missing-girl-18075415
Police investigating the disappearance of a 10-year-old Las Vegas girl expect to know Friday if it was her body that was found in an undeveloped housing tract.

Lawyer for Newtown shooting survivor says $100M claim is about security
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ggR4WWhkbGTakKYzPG5R8APJyWzA?docId=1624355600c04b9db2d804d333b7e352
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A lawyer who's asking to sue Connecticut for $100 million on behalf of a 6-year-old Newtown school shooting survivor who heard violence over the school's intercom system says the potential claim is about improving school security, not ...

Couples Wed Under Maine's New Gay Marriage Law
http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Maine-s-midnight-same-sex-nuptials-4154878.php
PORTLAND, Maine â€"A chorus of whoops and cheers greeted Steven Bridges and Michael Snell as they exited City Hall in Portland, Maine, early Saturday as the first same-sex couple to wed under a new law.

Benjamin Franklin expert Claude-Anne Lopez dead at 92
http://www2.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/12/30/scholar-benjamin-franklins-papers-dies-92.html
Claude-Anne Lopez, a top Benjamin Franklin aficionado and former editor-in-chief of Yale University's Franklin Papers died Friday at age 92 at her home in New Haven.

iPhone, iPad 'blamed' for rising crime in New York
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/personal-tech/computing/iPhone-iPad-blamed-for-rising-crime-in-New-York/articleshow/17810063.cms
iPhones and iPads rule the roost in the mobile market and have captured the US market like no other device. The devices are popular not only among tech enthusiasts, but also among thieves in New York, or so the city's mayor believes.

The Top 10 "shark-jumping" moments of the 2012 election
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/12/27/lgbt-issues-absent-from-presidential-election/
By NBC's Carrie Dann. From "47 percent" to "oops" to "you didn't build that," the 2012 campaign was full of memorable moments that arguably changed the trajectory and rhetoric of the presidential race, influencing conversations about the role of government, ...

Mourners honor slain Iowa girl's short life
http://whotv.com/2012/12/27/services-set-celebrating-lyric-cook/
Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, and her cousin Elizabeth Collins, 8, were found dead Dec. 5, nearly five months after they disappeared while riding their bikes in Evansdale, Iowa.