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1. Continental¹ flight 128 was forced to make an emergency landing in Miami after hitting severe turbulence² during an overnight flight from Brazil to Texas. At least 26 people on board were injured, four of them seriously.

2. White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs says the president has committed to not raise taxes on families who are earning less than a quarter million dollars. The reassurance³ came after Treasury⁴ Secretary Timothy Geithner suggested Sunday that the administration was not ready to rule out a tax hike to lower the federal deficit⁵.

3. Prosecutors⁶ say a grand jury has indicted⁷ Plaxico Burress on weapons charges. The New York Giants star shot himself in the thigh⁸ at a Manhattan nightclub last winter. The indictment⁹ charged the 31-year-old football player with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon and one count of reckless endangerment.

4. And it's a new gadget¹⁰ in Japan that is helping¹¹ people walk. Weighing about 22 pounds, these machines pick up signals from the brain. The makers¹² say they can help people who are injured or otherwise have trouble getting around.