Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today.
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A budget deal is reached that would avert about $63 billion in automatic spending cuts. It’s expected to be approved by both houses.
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Designed to defuse the kind of extreme risk-taking on Wall Street that helped trigger the 2008 financial crisis, it would affect how big banks do business.
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Anti-government protesters claim victory after a showdown in which authorities scuffled with demonstrators in the capital.
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The casket of the anti-apartheid icon, draped in the multi-colored South African flag, arrives at the seat of power in the country’s capital for public viewing.
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A new poll shows that nearly two-thirds of people would like to see their House member replaced, and 58 percent disapprove of the president’s performance.
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Two presidents shaking hands usually isn’t noteworthy, but when they are from nations that have been mired in Cold War antagonism for more than five decades, people pay attention.
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The plan now awaits the signature of the country’s president, who says he’s convinced the global drug war is a failure.
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The European Space Agency is planning to land an unmanned spacecraft on a comet next year in an unprecedented mission.
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The parents of a San Antonio university student shot and killed by a campus officer say the official account is inconsistent with their son’s character.
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America’s Evan Lysacek, the reigning Olympic figure skating champ, announces that a hip injury will keep him from competing.
