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

1. LOTS OF SECURITY AS EGYPTIANS VOTE ON CONSTITUTION  Some 160,000 soldiers and 200,000 policemen are guarding Cairo polling stations in the post-Morsi vote.  EGYPT

2. SPENDING BILL COULD END BUDGET BATTLE  The House votes Wednesday on a measure that maintains rent subsidies for the poor, gives federal civilian and military workers a 1 percent raise and beefs up security at U.S. embassies.  BUDGET BATTLE

3. PHONE RECORDS' STORAGE A STICKING POINT  The government may ask telephone companies to hold on to the details for security purposes, but the companies are balking.   NSA SURVEILLANCE

4. POLICE ACQUITTED IN HOMELESS MAN'S VIDEOTAPED DEATH  Now the FBI says it will determine whether to take federal action against the former Fullerton, Calif., officers.  POLICE-HOMELESS DEATH

5. 'SKELETONS WITH YELLOW SKIN'  That's how a mother describes starving Syrian refugees in camp outside Damascus, where women brave sniper fire to forage for food.   SYRIA

6. HOW CHRISTIE IS TRYING TO REBOUND  The embattled New Jersey governor will propose longer school days, but that could anger the teachers union.  CHRISTIE-STATE OF STATE

7. WATER BILL DISPUTE SHUTS SOME TEXAS CLASSROOMS  The city of La Villa imposed an increase but the school district refused to pay, so the doors closed. "We need to get back to school," one student says.   SCHOOLS CLOSED-WATER DISPUTE

8. POLICE: MOVIE THEATER DISPUTE OVER TEXTING SPURS FATAL SHOOTING  A retired Tampa, Fla., police captain is charged with second-degree murder before a screening of "Lone Survivor."  THEATER SHOOTING-FLA

9. WHAT KIM DOTCOM'S PLANNING NOW  The indicted Internet entrepreneur says he's starting a political party in New Zealand, though he can't be a candidate.   NEW ZEALAND-DOTCOM POLITICAL PARTY

10. WHERE YOU CAN SEE VINTAGE FOOTBALL TRADING CARDS  New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is putting some 150 on exhibition Jan. 24-Feb. 10, including a series from 1894.   GRIDIRON GREATS-EXHIBITION

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