10 Things to Know for Today Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about today (all times EST). Next up is the House, which meets at noon to vote on an agreement that kept taxes steady for the middle class, among other things. Tax cuts are extended on incomes of up to $400,000, estate and capital gains taxes increase and payroll taxes go up 2 percentage points. From Times Square to Myanmar, the world rang in 2013 with hope for change after a year of hard economic times and natural disasters. Fireworks explode over the ancient Parthenon temple at the Acropolis Hill during the New Year's celebrations in Athens, on Tuesday Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) Close It's located in a vein between the brain and the skull behind the secretary of state's right ear. Families of other mass killers have had to weigh their need to mourn against the risk that a public gravesite could be desecrated. Sirturo, used for hard-to-treat strains, is the first new medicine approved to fight the deadly infection in more than four decades. Criticism of its new online system prompted the motion picture academy to extend the deadline until Friday. Two Colorado clubs were believed to be the first legal recreational marijuana dens in the nation. Seven football coaches and five general managers lost their jobs after the regular season ended.