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10 Things to Know for Today

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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

1. OBAMA TURNS TO BUDGET EXPERT FOR CABINET PICK

Chief of staff Jack Lew becomes Treasury Secretary as the administration braces for Republican battles over national debt. OBAMA-TREASURY

2. WHITE HOUSE REACHES OUT TO GUN OWNERS

Vice President Joe Biden meets with sportsmen and the National Rifle Association as he develops Obama’s gun control plan. OBAMA-GUN CONTROL

3. THE MOST DANGEROUS NATION

A study says more Americans die of violent deaths than in any other wealthy country in the world. UNHEALTHY NATION

4. INDIA GANG RAPE SUSPECTS GO TO COURT

A lawyer says police beat the five men charged with the assault and killing of a young woman aboard a moving bus. INDIA-GANG RAPE

5. INAUGURATION SEATS FOR THE HIGHEST BIDDER

Tickets for Obama’s swearing-in are being peddled on eBay and Craigslist for up to $2,000 apiece. INAUGURATION-BLACK MARKET

6. TROOP DEPLOYMENT KEY TO U.S.-AFGHANISTAN TALKS

How many soldiers are needed to protect diplomats will be a likely topic as Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. US-AFGHANISTAN

7. PASSENGERS THROWN FROM FERRY IN NYC CRASH

At least 70 people were hurt when the Seastreak Wall Street slammed into a lower Manhattan dock. BOAT ACCIDENT-NYC

8. WILL IT BE THE DOG, THE SHOE OR THE THIMBLE

Hasbro is holding a Facebook contest to eliminate one of the eight Monopoly player tokens and introduce another one. MONOPOLY-NEW TOKENS

9. STEROIDS CAST A LONG SHADOW

For only the second time in four decades, no player is selected for baseball’s Hall of Fame. HALL OF FAME

10. WHO’S ON THE LIST FOR HOLLYWOOD’S BIGGEST NIGHT

“Lincoln,” ”Zero Dark Thirty” and “Les Miserables” are all favorites to become multiple Oscar nominees at 8:38 a.m. OSCAR NOMINATIONS

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  • Lisa Montgomery embraces her nephew Thursday after a tornado tore apart her home in Cleburne, Texas. The twister killed six people and destroyed entire swaths of the North Texas town.
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  • Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, speaks outside the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia Tuesday. His client was convicted of killing three babies in his clinic, and will serve multiple life sentences.
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  • Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., flanked by a grouper-eyed Michele Bachmann, addresses the IRS' admission that it targeted Tea Party groups in advance of the 2012 election. In an op-ed for CNN Thursday, the Kentucky senator slammed the president for his faux outrage.
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  • Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill Friday. Miller testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on the extra scrutiny the agency gave conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
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  • Attorney General Eric Holder pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday. Holder is under fire, among other things, for the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at the Associated Press.
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  • O.J. Simpson sits during an evidentiary hearing at Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nev., Thursday. Simpson, who is currently serving a nine-to-33-year sentence in state prison for armed robbery and kidnapping, is using a writ of habeas corpus to seek a new trial.
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  • Major Tom to ground control: On Sunday astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded the first music video from space, a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."
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  • When it rains it pours. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, inexplicably inspiring an #umbrellagate Twitter meme.
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  • A smoke plume rises high above a road block at the intersection of County A and Ross Road east of Solon Springs, Wis., Tuesday. No injuries were reported, but the the wildfire caused evacuations across northwestern Wisconsin.
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