From the Wires

The Atlantic: After joining Instagram in August, Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has joined Facebook, with 1,000 friends to his name.

Wall Street Journal: Diet Pepsi is changing its sweetener before a major rebranding set for next month.

Wall Street Journal: The Connecticut elementary school where 26 people were shot to death last week will be closed indefinitely.

Forbes: Apple sold more than two million iPhone 5 handsets in China during only its first three days on the market.

Bloomberg: Walmart and Kroger are among the bidders for Hostess Brands assets, a source says.

Fox News: Envoys from nearly 90 nations signed today the first new U.N. telecommunications treaty since the Internet age, but the U.S. and other Western nations refused to join after claiming it endorses greater government control over cyberspace.

SEATTLE PI: In an interview with Barbara Walters to air tonight on ABC, Obama said his administration has “bigger fish to fry” than to take on the two states, where voters made possession of small amounts of pot leg in November.

Washington Post: New York City’s Taxi & Limousine Commission approved a plan to let riders “e-hail”” yellow cabs beginning in February.

L.A. Times:  Rice, who came under heavy criticism for her defense of the Obama administration after armed militants killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, withdrew her name from consideration for secretary of State on Thursday.

AP: The Federal Reserve predicts the unemployment rate will remain high until late 2015.