[U.S.] Senate works into weekend as fiscal cliff looms

Senate works into weekend as fiscal cliff looms
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57561248/senate-works-into-weekend-as-fiscal-cliff-looms/
(CBS News) WASHINGTON - With just two days left, Senate leaders are still struggling to put together a last-minute bipartisan deal ahead of Monday's midnight deadline for the fiscal cliff.

Woman charged with "murder as a hate crime" in fatal subway pushing
http://abcnews.go.com/US/nyc-subway-push-killing-suspect-custody/story?id=18090508
NEW YORK | Sat Dec 29, 2012 7:53pm EST. NEW YORK (Reuters) - A woman suspected of shoving a man to his death in front of an oncoming New York subway train was arrested on Saturday and charged with "second-degree murder as a hate crime" in the ...

United Airlines jet slides off runway, hits snowbank in NY
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/12/29/united-flight-skids-off-runway-at-albany-county-airport-no-injuries-reported/
ALBANY, N.Y. - A regional jet has skidded into a snow bank at an upstate New York airport and become stuck, temporarily stranding passengers.

Body of missing girl found in empty Las Vegas lot
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/blood-found-borrowed-car-murdered-bellagio-girl-case-article-1.1229263
The weeklong search for a Las Vegas girl ended Friday afternoon when officials confirmed that a small body found in an undeveloped housing tract belonged to the missing child.

Same-sex couples marry in Maine for first time
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/gay-couples-maine-poised-weddings-18084038
By Daniel Lovering. PORTLAND, Maine | Sat Dec 29, 2012 11:53am EST. PORTLAND, Maine (Reuters) - The first gay and lesbian couples to wed under Maine's new same-sex marriage law exchanged vows early on Saturday in a series of spare but joyous ...

Five more years of the same old FISA
http://bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/12/29/congress-extends-foreign-surveillance-law/pmPpM2y35daduFbRRzrHBP/story.html
George W. Bush's war on terror produced two scandalous revelations. One was that the administration was using torture (a.k.a. “enhanced interrogation techniques”) to obtain information from suspected terrorists.