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• Retired General "Stormin'" Norman Schwarzkopf, former commander of US and coalition forces in the first Gulf War, has died at age 78.
• President Obama has called Congressional leaders from both parties together in Washington today for marathon talks to break the fiscal cliff impasse.
• Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson announced her resignation Thursday, leaving behind an agency beloved by Democrats and despised by the GOP.
• Charles Dickens' home and museum in Bloomsbury, London has reopened for the holidays after a $5 million restoration.
• Digital security firm McAfee Labs predicts 2013 will be the year of "ransomware" on PCs and mobile devices, in an attempt to extort money from infected users.