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.

这里是美联社新闻。
周二，康涅狄格州又一次为校园枪杀案中遇害的儿童举行葬礼。 除了事发地桑迪・胡克小学以外，纽顿地区的其他小学今天全部复课。 总统巴拉克・奥巴马正在努力修补和众议院议长约翰・博纳关于“财政悬崖”问题的意见分歧。 奥巴马希望提高年收入达40万以上的富人税率。 两党都希望努力达成具有实质性的协议。 佛蒙特州民主党参议员帕特里克・莱希现在成了总统后的第三线政治家。 长期担任夏威夷州的民主党参议员丹尼尔・井上昨天去世后，莱希通过选举上位。 在Assumption修道院，天主教特拉普派和尚十分忙碌。 来自全国各地的蛋糕爱好者来到这里定制手工制作的round soup和水果馅饼。 这里的和尚一年大多数时间都在烘烤蛋糕，在节假日能卖出2万个蛋糕。 桑迪・基尔，这里是美联社新闻一分钟。