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1. Lawmakers don't appear to be moving any closer to an agreement on avoiding so-called "fiscal¹ cliff" in January. Republican leaders are suggesting the White House is failing to outline specific spending cuts that could be made. But democrats² say it's up to the Republicans to do that.

2. The holders³ of the two winning Powerball tickets have 180 days in which to claim their prize. One ticket was sold in Kansas City area, the other near Phoenix⁴. The total jackpot was estimated at more than 587 million dollars.

3. Just hours after police say they arrested Lindsay Lohan in New York City for hitting a woman at a night club, the 26-year-old actress was charged in California for a June crash in which her Porsche slammed into a dump truck. 

4. And some children on their way to school in Russia stumbled upon this, a lion cub⁵. Police say the kids took the lion to their teacher who kept it in the school gym until officials arrived and eventually brought the cub to a zoo.