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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

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