This is AP News Minute. President Barack Obama says a fiscal cliff deal is still a work in progress. The president has stayed largely quiet this week as the White House Speaker John Boehner seek a way to avert a flurry of year-end tax increases and spending cuts. John McAffe is wanted for questioning in Belize in the death of an America neighbor there. But the founder of an anti-virus software company that bears his name says U.S. authorities haven't tried to question him since he arrived in Miami last night. Venezuela's government says President Hugo Chavez suffered complications during his cancer surgery in Cuba. But officials say he's now recovering. And according to court records, a prisoner told investigators in New Mexico he hatched a plot to kill Justin Bieber. Dana Martin told investigators he persuaded a man he met in prison and the man's nephew to kill Bieber, the singer's bodyguard and two other people as well.