FINAL LOOK: Senate rejects House bill to cut spending

Zachary Roth
·Senior National Affairs Reporter

Welcome to Final Look, our daily rundown of stories that evaded the full-on blog treatment:

• Thirteen people died in fighting between Christians and Muslims in Cairo's suburbs--the deadliest unrest since President Hosni Mubarak stepped down last month. (The New York Times)

• The Democratic-controlled Senate rejected a bill, approved last month by the Republican-controlled House, that aimed to cut federal spending by $57 billion. (The Wall Street Journal)

• Jared Loughner, the suspect in January's Tucson shootings, has entered a plea of not guilty. (The Washington Post)

• Illinois has abolished the death penalty, and cleared death row. (The Washington Post)

• Police have arrested a man previously tied to a white supremacist group in connection with a bomb planted at a Spokane, Washington MLK Day parade. (USA Today)

• Julie Taymor, the director of the troubled Broadway show "Spiderman," is said to be leaving. (The New York Times)