From NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.Republicans say the White House is not serious about finding a compromise to a looming deadline of tax increases and spending cuts.Speaker of the House John Boehner says the GOP remains opposed to increasing tax rates on all Americans,including on those who are more affluent.Boehner says other ideas to find revenue could include cutting tax write-offs that Americans use now."There are a lot of different ways to get there, but you can cap deductions at a percent of income.It'd be one way to get there.You can eliminate certain deductions for those, the wealthiest in our country. You could do all of that."Speaker Boehner spoke on Fox News Sunday.In a separate Fox News Sunday interview, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner insisted tax rates on wealthier Americans must increase.He says if Republicans will not concede this point, the White House can't promise the US won't go over the so-called "fiscal cliff".Egypt's highest court has suspended its work after a protest by Islamist supporters of President Mohamed Morsi.They prevented judges from attending a key meeting today.The court had been set to rule on whether the Islamist-dominated assembly, which drew up a new draft constitution, was legitimate.The BBC's Bethany Bell is in Cairo.The political stand-off in Egypt continues.Early this morning, President Morsi's supporters started to gather outside the Constitutional Court in Cairo.They wanted to block any moves by the court that questioned the legitimacy of the assembly that wrote Egypt's draft constitution,
