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• 6. WHAT'S THREATENING TO CRIPPLE PORTS
• If 14,500 longshoremen strike, ships that move much of American commerce would be unable to use most major ports on the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico.
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• 7. ANOTHER TRAGEDY ON THE TRACKS
• Police in New York City were seeking a woman seen fleeing a subway station after a man was pushed onto the tracks and killed by an approaching train. It was the second such fatality this month.
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• 8. WHEN RONALD REAGAN SOUGHT FASHION ADVICE
• Confidential documents released by Britain's National Archives reveal the inner workings of the government led by Margaret Thatcher, including a query asking what former President Reagan should wear to go riding with the Queen.
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• 9. PAVING THE WAY HOME WITH MUSIC
• Voices of Valor, a pilot program helping veterans re-enter civilian life, uses music to ease the way.
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• 10. BUSH SENIOR STILL IN HOSPITAL
• As former President George H.W. Bush remains in intensive care at a Houston hospital, a longtime aide says, "put the harps back in the closet," Bush is in good hands.
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AP News in Brief
White House meeting with congressional leaders presents a last chance for a fiscal deal
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Amid partisan bluster, top members of Congress and President Barack Obama were holding out slim hopes for a limited fiscal deal before the new year. But even as congressional leaders prepared to convene at the White House, there were no signs that legislation palatable to both sides was taking shape.
• The Friday afternoon meeting among congressional leaders and the president -- their first since Nov. 16 -- stood as a make-or-break moment for negotiations to avoid across-the-board first of the year tax increases and deep spending cuts.
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