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11:00 AM ET, December 31, 2012

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Politico:
Fiscal cliff: Major progress toward deal  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Vice President Joe Biden engaged in furious overnight negotiations to avert the fiscal cliff and made major progress toward a year-end tax deal, giving sudden hope to high-stakes talks …
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Grover Norquist: Tax rates won't increase  —  Grover Norquist on Monday expressed confidence that any last-minute fiscal cliff deal would not hike tax rates.  —  “I'm working with all the folks who are trying to defend taxpayers here in Congress,” he said on CNN's “Starting Point.”
Lisa Desjardins / CNN:
Sticking points in fiscal cliff talks
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Fiscal Cliff Talks Resume After GOP Caves On Social Security Cut
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
With no deal in hand, lawmakers spend New Year's Eve on the cliff
Discussion: Hot Air and Fox News Insider
Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Fiscal Cliff: GOP Gives In On Social Security Cuts In Stalled Talks (UPDATE)
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Roll Call and The Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Congress Meets Cliff's Edge
Discussion: Roll Call and Washington Examiner
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
GOP senators backing away from Social Security demand
Discussion: Washington Examiner
BuzzFeed:
8 People Who Thought Hillary Clinton Was Faking Her Concussion  —  The Secretary of State was hospitalized Sunday night with a blood clot.  —  Former U.S. U.N. spokesman Richard Grenell  —  Via: @RichardGrenell  —  The New York Post  —  Via: nypost.com
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Matthew Lee / bigstory.ap.org:
HILLARY CLINTON HOSPITALIZED WITH BLOOD CLOT  —  You are here  —  Home » United States government » Hillary Clinton hospitalized with blood clot  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital after the discovery …
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton hospitalized with blood clot  —  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was hospitalized in New York on Sunday after doctors monitoring her recovery from a concussion discovered a blood clot, according to a statement from her office.  —  The statement said that …
Discussion: Truthdig
Elise Labott / CNN:
Hillary Clinton hospitalized after doctors discover blood clot  —  (CNN) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was hospitalized Sunday after doctors discovered a blood clot during a follow-up exam related to a concussion she suffered this month, her spokesman said.
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Clinton Admitted to Hospital With Blood Clot
Discussion: USA Today and The Week
NBC Politics:
Hillary Clinton hospitalized after doctors discover blood clot
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
The Republican Party in one tweet  —  This is pretty much the Republican Party in one tweet:  —  Today's Republican Party thinks the key problem America faces is out-of-control entitlement spending.  But cutting entitlement spending is unpopular and the GOP's coalition relies heavily on seniors.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Is Obama Caving on Taxes?  —  The discouraging thing about the “fiscal cliff” negotiations is not that they have gone into the eleventh hour, or that they may go into the new year, or even that they won't resolve the long-term budget deficit.  It's that President Obama has retreated on his hard line on taxes.
Joshua Green / Business Week:
On the Fiscal Cliff, Republicans Are Blowing a Great Deal
Discussion: The Maddow Blog and The Mahablog
Louis Michael Seidman / New York Times:
Let's Give Up on the Constitution  —  AS the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken.  But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Most Admired in 2012  —  Clinton has been Most Admired more than any other woman in Gallup's history  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans again this year name Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama as the Most Admired Woman and Most Admired Man living in any part of the world.
New York Post:
Greenwich Village couple busted with cache of weapons, bombmaking explosives: sources  —  The privileged daughter of a prominent city doctor, and her boyfriend — a Harvard grad and Occupy Wall Street activist — have been busted for allegedly having a cache of weapons and a bombmaking explosive in their Greenwich Village apartment.
presstv.ir:
Militants can marry Syrian women: Wahhabi cleric in Saudi Arabia  —  A hard-line Wahhabi cleric in Saudi Arabia has recently issued a special religious decree that permits the militants in Syria to engage in short-term marriages with Syrian women.  —  Sheikh Mohammed al-Arifi …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Brewing Up Confusion  —  Howard Schultz, the C.E.O. of Starbucks, has a reputation as a good guy, a man who supports worthy causes.  And he presumably thought he would add to that reputation when he posted an open letter urging his employees to promote fiscal bipartisanship by writing “Come together” on coffee cups.
 
 
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Fox News:
Death of Tea Party appears exaggerated, members in House appear to hold key fiscal vote
Frank Bass / Bloomberg:
U.S. on Pace for Slowest Decade of Population Growth Since 1930s
Discussion: 24/7 Wall St.
Wall Street Journal:
The Elephant in the Courtroom  —  The Big Top beats an abusive lawsuit by the ASPCA.
Iain Duncan Smith / Telegraph:
We've brought back fairness to welfare
Discussion: Guardian and BBC
Nick Fagge / Daily Mail:
Syria rebels ‘beheaded a Christian and fed him to the dogs’ as fears grow over Islamist atrocities
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
 Earlier Items: 
John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
Our Pathetic Congress  —  Surprised that our lame-duck representatives …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Obama Pledges To Push For Gun Control Measures If 'American People Decide It's Important'
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Wall Street Journal:
Unthinkable Cuts Almost a Reality
Discussion: Hot Air
 

 
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