Senate leaders offer dour take on 'cliff' talks

Sunday, December 30, 2012 | 5:44 p.m. CST; updated 5:56 p.m. CST, Sunday, December 30, 2012

WASHINGTON— A Capitol Hill deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" was proving elusive Sunday as a deadline to avert tax hikes on virtually every American worker and block sweeping spending cuts set to strike the Pentagon and other federal agencies grew perilously near.

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