This is AP News Minute.Familiar routines are expected to resume Tuesday for some in the Connecticut town that had just begun burying children killed in a school house massacre.With the exception of Sandy Hook Elementary School, students in the Newtown district are returning to classes today.President Barack Obama is narrowing a fiscal cliff negotiating gap with House Speaker John Boehner.Obama now wants to raise the top tax rate on those earning over $400,000 per year.Both sides now appear willing to try for a substantial agreement.Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont is now third in line after the president.He was chosen to the Senate post after yesterday's death of long-time Democratic Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii.At the Assumption Abbey, Trappists monks are very busy.Fruitcake fans from around the world place orders to the monks'handy work, round soup, fruits tart cakes.The monks spend much of their times throughout the year, baking 20,000 cakes for the holiday season.Sandy Kozel, the Associated Press with AP News Minute.
