Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday:
1. SOUTH AFRICA'S EXTENDED FAREWELL TO MANDELA:
The civil-rights campaigner's life is being memorialized in old bedrocks of resistance to white domination as well as former bastions of loyalty to apartheid. World leaders will gather Tuesday for a service in Johannesburg.
2. SENATE DEMOCRATS PUSH OBAMA NOMINEES:
Democrats are ready to muscle through the president's choices for pivotal judgeships and other top jobs, but Republicans retain enough power to slow the appointments.
3. STORM TURNS NFL STADIUMS INTO WINTER WONDERLANDS:
The snow fell so heavily in Philadelphia that yard markers at Lincoln Financial Field — where the Eagles beat the Lions — were completely obscured. The weather canceled some 2,000 flights nationwide.
4. 'WE NEED TO COMPLETELY CHANGE THOSE IN POWER':
Protester Kostyantyn Meselyuk echoes the desires of hundreds of thousands of other demonstrators in Ukraine who flooded the center of Kiev to demand President Viktor Yanukovych's ouster.
5. THAI PM DISSOLVES PARLIAMENT:
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra also calls for elections in an attempt to calm the country's deepening political crisis as anti-government protesters vow to keep up pressure.
6. WHO ELSE IS FEELING LEFT OUT OF OBAMACARE:
Some insurers and insurance agents are calling on the White House to allow them to bypass healthcare.gov and enroll consumers directly amid growing complaints about problems with enrollment information generated from the website.
7. FOLLOWING 47 CLOSURES, CHICAGO SCHOOLS IN TRANSITION:
Some teachers and parents complain that overcrowding in the remaining schools is making the moves difficult.
8. KENNEDY HONORS FOR BILLY JOEL, SANTANA:
Jazz legend Herbie Hancock, opera star Martina Arroyo and actress Shirley MacLaine also receive the nation's highest award for arts and culture.
9. WHAT'S STANDING IN WAY OF NEW BRAVES BALLPARK:
The Atlanta Tea Party is blasting a deal for some $400 million in public money to put the big-league team into a new stadium in the suburbs.
10. FLORIDA ST-AUBURN TITLE GAME TO USHER OUT BCS ERA:
The Seminoles and the Tigers will meet in the final BCS championship game on Jan. 6.