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10 Things to Know for Today The Associated Press
• • Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday: • • 1. LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP FOR JAN. 1 HEALTH CARE • Today's 24-hour extension allows Americans more time to enroll for insurance plans that start on New Year's Day. • • 2. UTAH TURNS TO HIGHER COURT IN BID TO END GAY MARRIAGE • Hundreds of couples rush to wed as the state tries again to win a court order halting same-sex marriage. • • 3. EGYPT LABELS BROTHERHOOD A 'TERRORIST ORGANIZATION' • The interim government accuses the Muslim Brotherhood of orchestrating a deadly bomb attack on a police complex north of Cairo. • • 4. HOLIDAY SHOPPING SLOWS • Sales at U.S. stores have fallen for three consecutive weeks, putting pressure on retailers to lift last-minute sales. • • 5. NEWLY FREED PUSSY RIOT MEMBER SPEAKS OUT • Nadezhda Tolokonnikova calls her early release by Putin a stunt, and urges a boycott of the Winter Olympics. • • 6. GAY CODE-BREAKER GIVEN ROYAL PARDON • Briton Alan Turing cracked Nazi codes to help win WWII, yet his sexuality led to a criminal conviction and subsequent suicide. • • 7. DESIGNER OF AK-47 RIFLE DIES AT 94 • Mikhail Kalashnikov created what has become the world's most popular firearm. • • 8. WHAT WAS THE TOP STORY OF 2013 • AP's poll of U.S. news editors puts the troubled 'Obamacare' rollout at number (Continued on page 18)
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