Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about Thursday:
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After a contentious vote on the “fiscal cliff,” the 113th Congress is sworn in, following one of the least productive terms in decades.
2.
Survivors of the Newtown rampage in Connecticut go back to school for the first time in a nearby town.
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The AP’s Jean H. Lee reports Eric Schmidt is traveling on a humanitarian mission to North Korea.
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She spent three days in New York receiving blood thinners to dissolve a blood clot in n her head.
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Facing outraged lawmakers, the House speaker scheduled two votes this month for roughly $60 billion in aid.
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Police say they will seek the death penalty for five men charged with rape and murder.
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Scientists are using weather data in their attempts to predict disease outbreaks.
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Kansas officials say the agreement the donor signed with a lesbian couple wasn’t legal because a doctor wasn’t used.
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Defense officials say Rain met with Korean actress Kim Tae-hee while he was serving mandatory military duty.
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No. 22 Louisville made good on safety Calvin Pryor’s promise and upset No. 4 Florida 33-23.
