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• 6. HAPPY NEW YEAR, SAMOA
• The tiny nation in the South Pacific is the first in the world to ring in 2013.
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• 7. WHY A SUSPECT SAID SHE PUSHED A MAN IN FRONT OF NYC SUBWAY
• "I thought it would be cool," Erika Menendez told police.
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• 8. BABY ON THE WAY FOR KIM AND KANYE
• Kanye West broke the news on stage that Kim Kardashian is pregnant with the couple's first child.
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• 9. A BID TO BAN "SPOILER ALERT"
• "Kick the can down the road," ''trending" and "bucket list" also top a list of overused words.
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• 10. TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE FOR SUPER BOWL CHAMPS
• The New York Giants routed Philadelphia 42-7, but failed to make the playoffs when Chicago beat Detroit.
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AP News in Brief
Dems, GOP try resolving tax and spending disputes with 'fiscal cliff' deadline hours away
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House and Senate Republicans sorted through stubborn disputes over taxing the wealthy and cutting the budget to pay for Democratic spending proposals as Monday's midnight deadline for an accord avoiding the "fiscal cliff" drew to within hours.
• Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., spoke repeatedly Sunday to Vice President Joe Biden, a former Senate colleague, in hopes of settling remaining differences and clinching a breakthrough that has evaded the two sides since President Barack Obama's November re-election. In one indication of the eleventh-hour activity, aides said the president, Biden and top administration bargainer Rob Nabors were all working late at the White House, and McConnell was making late-night phone calls as well.
• Unless an agreement is reached and approved by Congress by the start of New Year's Day, more than $500 billion in 2013 tax increases will begin to take effect and $109 billion will be carved from defense and domestic programs. Though the tax (Continued on page 22)
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