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8A – Daily News – Friday, April 15, 2011 WORLD BRIEFING Federal budget cuts gain final approval WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has sent President Barack Obama legislation making $38 billion in cuts from domestic programs. The Senate vote was 81-19. It came not long after the House gave its approval, 260-167. The bill was the prod- uct of negotiations involv- ing the White House, House Republicans and Senate Democrats, who reached agreement last week in barely enough time to avert a threatened government shutdown. The legislation drew support from lawmakers in both parties, but little if any enthusiasm. Its passage closes the books on the current bud- get year. It also clears the way for a broader debate about spending priorities in an era of soaring budget deficits. That struggle begins in earnest on Fri- day, when House Repub- licans are expected to approve a budget that calls for major changes in Medicare and Medicaid, as well as deep cuts else- where. Republican hopefuls bash Obama CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Republicans con- sidering a White House run in 2012 assailed Pres- ident Barack Obama’s deficit-reduction proposal Mobile Pet Vaccinations RAIN OR SHINE LOW COST VACCINE CLINIC DOGS ON LEASH Distemper/Parvo (6-in-1) and Rabies.............$ 15 Distemper/Parvo (6-in-1) Corona, Rabies & Bordetella.......$ Distemper/Parvo (6-in-1).............$ Rabies Only....$ PRESCRIPTION FLEA PREVENTION ALSO AVAILABLE 25 10 7 CATS IN BOX Feline Distemper (3-in-1) and Rabies............. $ Rabies Only.... $ Leukemia.........$ All Three..........$ 15 7 12 25 SATURDAY, APRIL 16TH RED BLUFF Reynolds Ranch & Farm Supply 501 Madison, Red Bluff 12:00-2:00 MOBILE PET VACCINATIONS (916) 983-4686 (Not affiliated with any other vaccine clinic) discount CASH ONLY 3 or more pet and cast him as a tax-rais- ing liberal who’s failing to pull the nation back from the brink of finan- cial catastrophe. The criticism looks a lot like the opening salvo in a race certain to be shaped by spending issues. Most of the contenders have indicated their pref- erence for a spending blueprint offered by Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Com- mittee. While praising Ryan, R-Wis., they have stopped short of endors- ing it completely. ‘‘That’s a very good start. It does some things that need to be done,’’ Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Thursday at a breakfast with Man- chester Mayor Ted Gat- sas. During his opening trip to the first-in-the-nation primary state, Barbour said he found much to like in Ryan’s plan to cut defense spending and in his Medicare proposal. FAAofficial overseeing air traffic resigns WASHINGTON (AP) — The official who over- sees the nation’s air traffic system resigned Thursday and the Federal Aviation Administration began a ‘‘top to bottom’’ review of the entire system follow- ing disclosures of four instances of air traffic controllers sleeping on the job. FAA chief Randy Bab- bitt said in a statement that Hank Krakowski, the head of the agency’s Air Traffic Organization, had submitted his resignation. He said David Grizzle, FAA’s chief counsel, will temporarily take over for Krakowski while the agency searches for a replacement. Babbitt moved on Wednesday to add a sec- ond overnight air traffic controller at more than two dozen airports around the country. The con- trollers were added hours after a medical flight was unable to raise a lone con- troller working at 2 a.m. at Reno-Tahoe Interna- tional Airport. FAA said the Reno controller, who was out of communica- tion for 16 minutes, was sleeping. The plane land- ed safely with assistance from controllers at a regional radar facility in Northern California. Babbitt said he would conduct a ‘‘top to bot- tom’’ review of FAA’s entire air traffic system. ‘‘Over the last few weeks we have seen examples of unprofes- sional conduct on the part of a few individuals that have rightly caused the traveling public to ques- tion our ability to ensure their safety,’’ Babbitt said. ‘‘This conduct must stop immediately.’’ Defiant Gadhafi rolls through capital TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Moammar Gadhafi rolled defiantly through the streets of Tripoli, pumping his fists as he poked through the sun roof of an SUV on Thurs- day — the same day that Red Bluff Garden Center • Violas • Pansies • Snapdragons $ 2000 per flat Great Easter Colors 766 Antelope Blvd. (next to the fairgrounds) 527-0886 NATO airstrikes shook the city. The alliance’s foreign ministers, while united in their aim to pressure the Libyan leader to go, argued at a meeting over whether to step up military opera- tions that have so far failed to rout him. Gadhafi gave no sign that he’s willing to relent, despite two months of civil war and mounting international pressure for him to move aside. Instead, his loyalists pounded rebel positions in the besieged western city of Misrata with dozens of rockets for sev- eral hours, killing at least 13 people. The main target of the assault was Misrata’s port, the only lifeline for rebels who have been try- ing to defend positions in the city, Libya’s third- largest, against Gadhafi’s forces. In the capital of Tripoli, several large explosions were heard and a column of black smoke rose from the southeastern part of the city, followed by the sound of anti-aircraft guns, a resident said. Spent fuel rods add to trouble at Japan plant TOKYO (AP) — The operator of Japan’s tsuna- mi-flooded nuclear power complex was seeking ways Thursday to pull damaged spent fuel rods out of a stor- age pool for one of the plant’s reactors, citing surg- ing radiation and elevated temperatures as worrisome signs. 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The numbers from the 2010 count are already having a big effect on redistricting in many states, where dis- trict boundary lines are being redrawn based on population size and racial makeup. Hispanics became the a March 11 tsunami swamped the plant, knock- ing out crucial cooling sys- tems. Restoring them will take months. Frequent aftershocks from the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that triggered the monstrous waves are unwelcome reminders of the disaster and are imped- ing work on the cooling sys- tems. The government earlier this week revised its rating of the severity of the crisis to level 7, the worst possible on an international scale. The only other level 7 was the 1986 Chernobyl disas- ter, though that explosion released 10 times the radioactivity that has come from Fukushima Dai-ichi so far. TEPCO officials said Wednesday they were dis- cussing ways to eventually remove spent fuel rods from storage pools as the plant is closed down for good. The issue appeared most urgent at the No. 4 reactor, which was shut down for maintenance at the time of the tsunami, with all the spent fuel rods moved from its core. Census shows declining black pop WASHINGTON (AP) — Hispanics now out- number African-Ameri- cans for the first time in most U.S. metropolitan areas, shifting the politi- largest minority group in 191 metropolitan areas last year, their popula- tion lifted higher as blacks left many eco- nomically hard-hit cities in the North for the South and new Latino immigrants spread to different parts of the country. That’s up from 159 metro areas when the previous Census was taken in 2000, when His- panics were most com- monly found in South- west border states. The new metro areas include Chicago; Grand Rapids, Mich. and Atlantic City, N.J., whose states will lose U.S. House seats in the 2012 elections. Other places seeing rapid His- panic gains compared to blacks were Lakeland, Fla.; Madison, Wis.; Oklahoma City and Omaha, Neb., due to the mid-decade housing boom that attracted many new immigrants seeking work in the con- struction and service industries. Senate rejects GOP effort to cut off health care funds WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has reject- ed an effort to cut off funds for President Barack Obama’s health care law. The vote Thursday was 53-47, strictly along party lines. 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