10 Things to Know for Tuesday

The Associated Press news@newnan.com Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about Tuesday. 1. SENATE APPROVES 'FISCAL CLIFF' DEAL
Next up is the House, which meets at noon to vote on an agreement that kept taxes steady for the middle class, among other things. 2. WHAT IT MEANS FOR TAXPAYERS Tax cuts are extended on incomes of up to $400,000, estate and capital gains taxes increase and payroll taxes go up 2 percentage points. 3. 5, 4, 3, 2 ... From Times Square to Myanmar, the world rang in 2013 with hope for change after a year of hard economic times and natural disasters. 4. DOCTORS GIVE DETAILS ON CLINTON'S BLOOD CLOT It's located in a vein between the brain and the skull behind the secretary of state's right ear. 5. WHY NO KNOWS NEWTOWN SHOOTER'S FINAL RESTING PLACE Families of other mass killers have had to weigh their need to mourn against the risk that a public gravesite could be desecrated. 6. WHAT NEW DRUG COULD FIGHT TB Sirturo, used for hard-to-treat strains, is the first new medicine approved to fight the deadly infection in more than four decades. 7. SUPPORTERS PRAYING FOR CHAVEZ Three weeks after cancer surgery, the Venezuelan leader's condition appears increasingly dire. 8. WHY OSCAR VOTERS HAVE ONE MORE DAY Criticism of its new online system prompted the motion picture academy to extend the deadline until Friday. 9. THIS CLUB IS BYOP Two Colorado clubs were believed to be the first legal recreational marijuana dens in the nation. 10. 12 SACKED IN NFL POSTSEASON Seven football coaches and five general managers lost their jobs after the regular season ended.

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