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Saturday, April 6, 2013 – Daily News 7A WORLD BRIEFING Obama's US economy budget adds just proposes cuts 88,000 jobs WASHINGTON (AP) to Social — A streak of robust job growth came to a halt in Security March, signaling that U.S. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's proposed budget will call for reductions in the growth of Social Security and other benefit programs while still insisting on more taxes from the wealthy in a renewed attempt to strike a broad deficit-cutting deal with Republicans. The proposal aims for a compromise on the fiscal 2014 budget by combining the president's demand for higher taxes with GOP insistence on reductions in entitlement programs. But the plan was already encountering negative reviews from top Republicans for its insistence on revenue and from liberals and labor for its effect on the social safety net. Obama would reduce the federal government deficit by $1.8 trillion over 10 years, according to a summary from the Obama administration provided Friday. The president's budget, the first of his second term, incorporates elements from his last offer to House Speaker John Boehner in December. Congressional Republicans rejected that proposal because of its demand for more than a $1 trillion in tax revenue. "It's not the president's ideal approach to our budget challenges, but it is a serious compromise proposition that demonstrates that he wants to get things done, that he believes we ought to do the business of the American people," said White House press secretary Jay Carney. Congress and the administration have already secured $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction over the next 10 years through budget reductions and with the endof-year tax increase on the rich. Obama's plan would bring that total to $4.3 trillion over 10 years. employers may have grown cautious in a fragile economy. The gain of 88,000 jobs was the smallest in nine months. Even a decline in unemployment to a four-year low of 7.6 percent was nothing to cheer: It fell only because more people stopped looking for work and were no longer counted as unemployed. The weak jobs report Friday from the Labor Department caught analysts by surprise and served as a reminder that the economy is still recovering slowly nearly four years after the Great Recession ended. "This is not a good report through and through," Dan Greenhaus, chief economic strategist at brokerage firm BTIG, said in a note to clients. March's job gain was less than half the average of 196,000 jobs in the previous six months. This could be the fourth straight year that the economy and hiring have shown strength early in the year, only to weaken afterward. Some economists say weak hiring may persist into summer before rebounding by fall. Judge rules morningafter pill can be sold overthe-counter WASHINGTON (AP) — The morning-after pill might become as easy to buy as aspirin. In a scathing rebuke accusing the Obama administration of letting election-year politics trump science, a federal judge ruled Friday that women of any age should be able to buy emergency contraception without a doctor's prescription. Today, women can do that only if they prove at the pharmacy that they're COME MEET THE CLYDESDALES! Bring your camera or smart phone Tues., April 16, 5pm Tehama District Fairgrounds Get a photo with the Clydesdales & BBQ Dinner for a $10 donation to the Red Bluff Police Dept. Canine Program. Sponsored by Red Bluff Round-up & Foothill Dist. PEPPERONI +TAX HOT-N-READY 4-8 PM OR ORDER ANYTIME - LARGE DEEP DISH PIZZA - 8 CRISPY, CRUNCHY CORNERS WITH CARAMELIZED CHEESE EDGES - DOUGH BAKED O PERFECTION TO DELIVER A UNIQUE, CRISPY-ON-THE-BOTTOM, SOFT-AND-CHEWY-ON-THE-INSIDE-CRUST. RED BLUFF (530) 527-1121 108 MAIN STREET, SUITE C (BY RIVER PARK) CORNING (530) 824-8800 965 HWY 99W, SUITE 135 17 or older; everyone else must see a doctor first. U.S. District Judge Edward Korman of New York blasted the government's decision on age limits as "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable," and ordered an end to the restrictions within 30 days. The Justice Department was evaluating whether to appeal, and spokeswoman Allison Price said there would be a prompt decision. President Barack Obama had supported the 2011 decision setting age limits, and White House spokesman Jay Carney said Friday the president hasn't changed his position. "He believes it was the right common-sense approach to this issue," Carney said. Syrian president warns if his regime falls, instability will spread BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad warned in comments broadcast Friday that the fall of his regime or the breakup of his nation will cause a "domino effect" that will fuel Middle East instability for years, in his sharpest warning yet about the potential fallout of his country's civil war on neighboring states. In Moscow, Russia's president said the Syrian conflict has become "a massacre" that must be stopped through peace talks, and repeated the Kremlin's firm rejection of calls for Assad's ouster. The Syrian regime is under growing pressure from an increasingly effective rebel movement that has managed to pry Lake County Sheriff Mark Curran Jr. said. The bus driver may have run a red light, Curran said, adding that the bus driver was speaking with authorities as part of their investigation. Barbara Taylor, who lives nearby, said she heard the collision from her home. "I heard a thud and the ground shook a little bit and I looked out the bedroom window and saw the bus on its side," Taylor said. Documents raise new questions for university much of northern Syria away from the government and has made significant headway recently in the south in capturing territory and military bases. The rebel advances appear to have given them momentum and put the government on the defensive in the 2-year-old conflict that the U.N. estimates has killed more than 70,000 people. In an interview with the Turkish TV station Ulusal Kanal broadcast Friday, Assad accused his neighbors of stoking the revolt against his rule, saying "we are surrounded by countries that help terrorists and allow them to enter Syria." But he warned that those same countries may eventually pay a price down the road. "Everybody knows that if the disturbances in Syria reach the point of country's breakup, or terrorist forces control Syria, or if the two cases happen, then this will immediately spill over into neighboring countries first, and later there will be a domino effect that will reach countries across the Middle East," he said. Person dead in N. Illinois school bus crash WADSWORTH, Ill. (AP) — One person died and dozens of elementary school children were taken to hospitals Friday after a school bus crash in northern Illinois left two cars mangled and the bus on its side. All 35 people aboard the bus survived the crash that happened around 8 a.m. in Wadsworth, 45 miles north of Chicago, CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — New questions confronted the University of Colorado, Denver on Friday amid disclosures that a psychiatrist who treated theater shooting suspect James Holmes had warned campus police a month before the deadly assault that Holmes was dangerous and had homicidal thoughts. Court documents made public Thursday revealed Dr. Lynne Fenton also told a campus police officer in June that the shooting suspect had threatened and intimidated her. Fenton's blunt warning came more than a month before the July 20 attack at a movie theater that killed 12 and injured 70. Holmes had been a student in the university's Ph.D. neuroscience program but withdrew about six weeks before the shootings after failing a key examination. Campus police officer Lynn Whitten told investigators after the shooting that Fenton had contacted her. Whitten said Fenton was following her legal requirement to report threats to authorities, according one of the documents, a search warrant affidavit.