| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | Penn State sanctions | | Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett announced plans Wednesday to file an anti-trust lawsuit against the NCAA over its sanctions against Penn State University following the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal. |
| India rape reaction | | Top lawyers in the India district where a woman was gang-raped are saying that they will not represent the six men accused in the attack, which led to her death. |
| Fiscal cliff | | The bill that would back the United States away from its fiscal cliff awaited President Barack Obama's signature Wednesday, but new battles over taxes and spending await Washington in the next few weeks. |
| Hillary Clinton | | Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been speaking with her staff and is active on the phone from the New York hospital where she's being treated for a blood clot between her skull and brain, a spokeswoman said Wednesday. |
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