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4B – Daily News – Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Conservative Cameron prime minister after Brown bows out LONDON (AP) — Conserva- tive leader David Cameron became Britain’s youngest prime minister in almost 200 years Tues- day after Gordon Brown stepped down and ended 13 years of Labour government. Cameron said he aims to form a full coalition government with the third-place Liberal Democrats after his Conservative Party won the most seats but did not get a majority in Britain national elec- tion last week. The 43-year-old leader said it would be ‘‘hard and difficult work’’ to govern as a coalition but added that Britain had serious eco- nomic issues to tackle. Cameron visited Buckingham Palace and was asked to form a government by Queen Elizabeth II less than an hour after Brown tendered his res- ignation to the monarch. Cameron and Liberal Democ- rat leader Nick Clegg’s pact would be the first coalition government since World War II. Arriving at London’s Downing Street hand in hand with his wife Samantha, Cameron said he believed that Britain’s ‘‘best days lie ahead.’’ Congress calls drilling execs to account on spill shortcomings WASHINGTON (AP) — Con- gress called BP and its drilling partners to account Tuesday for a ‘‘cascade of failures’’ behind the spreading Gulf oil spill, zeroing in on a crucial chain of events at the deep-sea wellhead just before an explosion consumed the rig and set off the catastrophic rupture. In back-to-back Senate inquiries, executives of the three companies at the heart of the mas- sive spill were chastised by sena- tors over attempts to shift the blame to each other. And they were asked to explain why better preparations had not been made to head off the accident. ‘‘Let me be really clear,’’ Lamar McKay, chairman of BP America, told the hearing. ‘‘Lia- bility, blame, fault — put it over here.’’ He said: ‘‘Our obligation is to deal with the spill, clean it up and make sure the impacts of that spill are compensated, and we’re going to do that.’’ By ‘‘over here,’’ McKay meant the witness table at which BP, Transocean and Halliburton exec- utives sat shoulder to shoulder. And despite his acknowledgment of responsibility, each company defended its own operations and raised questions about its partners in the project gone awry. Lawmakers compared the calamity to some of history’s most notorious mishaps from sea to space in the first congressional inquiry into the April 20 explosion and so-far unstoppable spill. Spending on health care law could boost cost over $1 trillion WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s new health care law could potentially add at least $115 billion more to government health care spending over the next 10 years, congres- sional budget referees said Tues- WORLD BRIEFING day. If Congress approves all the additional spending called for in the legislation, it would push the ten-year cost of the overhaul above $1 trillion — an unofficial limit the Obama administration set early on. The Congressional Budget Office said the added spending includes $10 billion to $20 billion in administrative costs to federal agencies carrying out the law, as well as $34 billion for community health centers and $39 billion for Indian health care. The costs were not reflected in earlier estimates by the budget office, although Republican law- makers strenuously argued that they should have been. Part of the reason is technical: the additional spending is not mandatory, leav- ing Congress with discretion to provide the funds in follow-on legislation — or not. ‘‘Congress does not always act on authorizations that are put into legislation by drafters,’’ explained Kenneth Baer, a spokesman for the White House budget agency. ‘‘Authorizations for discretionary spending are not expenditures.’’ Pope makes most thorough admission on church’s guilt LISBON, Portugal (AP) — In his most thorough admission of the church’s guilt in the clerical sex abuse scandal, Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday the greatest per- secution of the institution ‘‘is born from the sins within the church,’’ and not from a campaign by out- siders. The pontiff said the Catholic church has always been tormented by problems of its own making — a tendency that is being witnessed today ‘‘in a truly terrifying way.’’ ‘‘The church needs to pro- foundly relearn penitence, accept purification, learn forgiveness but also justice,’’ he said. ‘‘Forgiveness cannot substitute justice,’’ he said. Benedict was responding to journalists’ questions, submitted in advance, aboard the papal plane as he flew to Portugal for a four- day visit. Kagan’s record lacks clear signal WASHINGTON (AP) — Elena Kagan’s opposition to the Pentagon’s ‘‘don’t ask, don’t tell’’ policy on gay troops is a rare insight into her personal views. Kagan’s public record, thinner than most earlier Supreme Court nominees, otherwise offers sup- porters and critics little assurance about how she would vote as a jus- tice. President Barack Obama nom- inated Kagan on Monday to replace Justice John Paul Stevens, who will retire this summer. Kagan is expected to vote the same way as Stevens, the leader of the court’s liberals, on most issues. But the assessment of her antici- pated votes is based more on her affiliation with two Democratic administrations than on her record. With the exception of ‘‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’’ which she con- demned as a discriminatory ‘‘moral outrage,’’ Kagan has more often been circumspect and cau- tious about injecting her own views into her public words. She worked in the Clinton White House and the Obama Justice Department, putting forward or defending the administration posi- tion. At Harvard Law School, she saw her role as dean as inclusive and generally avoided polemics. Writing about Kagan’s view of the First Amendment, UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh wrote on his blog, The Volokh Conspir- acy, that it’s ‘‘hard to predict’’ from her writings how Kagan would decide cases as a Supreme Court justice. Volokh praised Kagan’s schol- arship, saying her articles ‘‘go behind glib generalizations and formalistic distinctions.’’ Thieves steal Mojave cross LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thieves have stolen a cross in the Mojave Desert that was built to honor Americans who died in war, less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the reli- gious symbol to remain on federal land. The 7-foot-high cross was stolen late Sunday or early Monday by thieves who cut the metal bolts that attached the symbol to a rock in the sprawl- ing desert preserve, National Park Service spokeswoman Linda Slater said. Authorities had no immediate motive for the theft but Slater said possible suspects range from scrap metal scavengers to people ‘‘with an interest in the case,’’ Slater said. 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