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• Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
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• 1. NEW SPENDING BILL IS ABOUT MORE THAN MONEY
• "We need to rack up some achievements here," Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., says about appeasing disgruntled voters before next fall's midterm elections.
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• 2. DEADLY DAY IN IRAQ
• A wave of bombings across Iraq strike busy markets and a funeral north of Baghdad, killing more than 40 people.
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• 3 REPORT: NSA HAS SURVEILLANCE SOFTWARE IN COMPUTERS AROUND WORLD
• The New York Times says the agency has used the technology on the Chinese army, the Russian military, drug cartels, EU trade institutions and more.
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• 4. GANG RAPE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT IN INDIA
• Police say a Danish tourist was attacked after she asked a group of men for directions near a popular shopping area in New Delhi.
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• 5. HOW GOOGLE'S PURCHASE OF NEST COULD PLAY OUT
• One analyst's scenario: Digital mapping software could "learn" a house's layout -- then delegate vacuuming to a robot.
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• 6. NO GOOD OPTIONS FOR FLEEING CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
• Bordering countries like Chad, Congo and South Sudan are desperately poor and unstable too. "I just want to go somewhere there is peace," one man says.
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• 7. SUPREME COURT CONSIDERING ABORTION CLINIC BUFFER ZONES
• Justices hear arguments on a Massachusetts law that keeps protesters at least

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