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Monday, Dec 31, 2012 04:53 PM PST
Today's Blogs - Yahoo! News: Tentative ‘fiscal cliff’ deal reached in Senate Congress won’t make midnight ‘fiscal cliff’ deadline Doctors: Clinton making ‘excellent progress’ in treatment for blood clot Biden, McConnell pursue deal just hours before ‘fiscal cliff’

Tentative ‘fiscal cliff’ deal reached in Senate  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 04:53 PM PST Racing to beat a midnight deadline, Vice President Joe Biden arrived on Capitol Hill Monday night to sell wary Democratic senators on an 11th-hour deal to avert income tax hikes on all but a sliver of the richest Americans. Grinning broadly, Biden ignored reporters questions on whether he and Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell [...] Full Story	Top
Congress won’t make midnight ‘fiscal cliff’ deadline  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 02:08 PM PST America is going over the “fiscal cliff” â€" for a few minutes, or hours, at the very least. Don't panic. There's no need to move the family into the Doomsday bunker in the backyard. Yet. While President Barack Obama and Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have said they are close to a broad agreement [...] Full Story	Top
Doctors: Clinton making ‘excellent progress’ in treatment for blood clot  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 02:00 PM PST Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is "making excellent progress" recovering from a blood clot in her head that was discovered during a medical examination, her doctors said Monday. But Clinton remains hospitalized until a proper medication level is established, they said. A day after announcing that Clinton had been admitted to a New York [...] Full Story	Top
Biden, McConnell pursue deal just hours before ‘fiscal cliff’  Monday, Dec 31, 2012 07:01 AM PST Merry Cliffmas Eve? Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday pursued behind-closed-doors efforts to avoid the “fiscal cliff” with just hours to halt painful automatic income tax hikes from biting into American paychecks. McConnell announced on Sunday that he had reached out to Biden to help “jump-start” stalled negotiations [...] Full Story	Top

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