Are some top stories making news this morning. 40 house republicans have joined 60 democrats, in a letter urging the deficit-cutting supercommittee to consider all options for raising revenue to help shrink the nation's massive debt. several dozen of those republicans have previously signed a pledge. america's poorest of the poor has climbed to a record high of one in 15 people. the data shows poverty has spread widely across metropolitan areas. a manhattan federal jury has convicted a russian arms dealer known as the merchant of death of conspiring to sell weapons to terrorists who he tho...