A.M. Links: NSA Uses Cookies To Track Targets, Budget Deal Announced, Pope is TIME’s Person of the Year

  • The latest reporting on the documents leaked by Edward Snowden
    reveals that the
    NSA uses cookies
    to track targets. 
  • Lawmakers unveiled a budget
    deal
    yesterday that would avoid another partial government
    shutdown.
  • India’s Supreme Court has ruled that a colonial-era law

    criminalizing homosexuality
    is constitutional.

  • Pope Francis
     is TIME‘s Person of the Year.
    Edward Snowden was runner-up.
  • New York City Mayor
    Michael Bloomberg
    is backing legislation that would require all
    children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years who attend a
    licensed preschool or daycare to get a flu vaccine.
  • Experts claim that the gestures made by the the sign language
    interpreter at the
    Nelson Mandela memorial
    didn’t mean anything in American or
    South African sign languages.

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