Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about today:
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The AP’s Julie Pace says the president may go for a hard-line strategy to win Republican concessions on taxes.
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The Republicans’ proposal to cut $300 billion in discretionary spending could hit defense departments the hardest.
3.
The AP’s Charles Hutzler reports that trade in coal, cashmere and other goods with China makes up ¾ of the nation’s economy.
4.
Negotiators vote to end an eight-day strike at the nation’s largest port complex in Los Angeles.
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Opponents of Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi call for an extended sit-in outside the presidential palace.
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A homeless man travels by day in his 14-foot vessel and pitches a tent at night to sleep off of Boston Harbor.
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Young Europeans have the skills to work in other countries, but don’t speak the languages to transfer them.
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John McAfee tells The AP he will seek asylum rather than return to Belize and face questioning in his American neighbor’s killing.
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America’s oldest university recognizes a student group promoting safe, kinky sex.
10.
Bessie Cooper passes away peacefully at a nursing home in Georgia. Earlier in the day, she’d had her hair set.
