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8A Daily News– Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Mubarak health said to Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was moved out of prison to a military hospital Tuesday after the 84-year- old ousted leader suffered a stroke and his condition rapidly deteriorated, offi- cials said, adding a new element of uncertainty just as a potentially explo- sive worsen CAIRO (AP) — fight opened over who will succeed him, with both candidates claiming to have won last weekend's presidential election. The developments add further layers to what is threatening to become a new chapter of unrest and political power struggles in Egypt, 16 months after Mubarak was ousted by a popular uprising demand- ing democracy. European members gath- ered here, led by Ger- many and its chancellor, Angela Merkel, who carry both the power and responsibility to stabilize a eurozone reeling from debt, banking and politi- cal problems. Obama was immersed in a second day of talks before meeting separately with Chinese President Hu Jintao and holding a news conference. He was to be back in Washington by the early hours of Wednesday, where a fierce re-election cam- paign and a slumping U.S. jobs market await him. The campaign of Mubarak's former prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, said Tuesday he has won Egypt's presidential elec- tion, countering the Mus- lim Brotherhood's claim of victory for its candi- date, Mohammed Morsi. The election commis- sion is to announce the official final results on Thursday and no matter who it names as victor, his rival is likely to reject the result as a fraud. If Shafiq is declared winner in par- ticular, it could spark an explosive backlash from the Brotherhood. Egypt's most powerful political group, is already escalating its challenge against the ruling military over the generals' move this week to give them- selves overwhelming authority over the next president. Some 50,000 protesters, mostly Islamists, massed in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday evening chanting slogans in support of Morsi and denouncing the generals' power grab. The Brotherhood, Obama presses for stability from Europe LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) — Needing an eco- nomic boost, President Barack Obama is trying to land assurances that Europe is closing in on a financial crisis response that will calm the markets and keep the continent's woes from undermining the world. As he presses European leaders to drum up economic demand, they want promises the United States won't plunge off a fiscal cliff by year's end. Obama, as leader of the giant but struggling U.S. economy, remains central to the Group of 20 summit talks wrapping up Tuesday in this coastal resort region. But it is the C & C PROPERTIES The leaders gathered on the Mexican coast seemed intent on sending the right signals to jittery markets and unhappy electorates. Merkel told reporters Tuesday that the European leaders present made a unified statement that they were willing to tackle their problems. ''From the side of the European Union we argued unanimously and collectively that we are determined to solve the crisis, and to do it in a mix of fiscal consolidation, growth initiatives, and deepening of European cooperation,'' she said. ''That reached very atten- tive ears here.'' Half-trillion in tax boosts, spending cuts loom in WORLD BRIEFING battle over what many are calling the ''fiscal cliff.'' Much depends on whether President Barack Obama defeats Republi- can challenger Mitt Rom- ney in November and which party controls Con- gress. — A budget showdown for the ages could begin after this year's election and stretch well into 2013 — despite the threat that an impending half-tril- lion-dollar avalanche of tax increases and spend- ing cuts might rekindle a national recession. January WASHINGTON (AP) The reason: an unprecedented collision of high-stakes fiscal deci- sions, coming at a time of intense partisanship, a teetering economy, record federal deficits and, possi- bly, a new president. Campaigning for the White House and Con- gress will make substan- tive action all but impos- sible before the elections. And agreement may be nearly as tough during a post-election, lame duck session in November and December, barring a European financial melt- down or Middle East oil supply crisis that demands an immediate response by lawmakers. ''I don't know how a Congress that can't agree on anything in two years is all of a sudden going to come together with the administration in the last 45 days of the year to solve the problem,'' said Rep. Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio. 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Though few new details are revealed in the documents, the files offer more historical context for the years surrounding the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. CIA releases declassified documents Archive obtained the doc- uments through a Free- dom of Information Act request and published them on its website Tues- day. The archive is a pri- vate group seeking trans- parency in government. An April 2000 docu- ment from the CIA's bin Laden unit alluded to a budgetary cash crunch that was cutting into the agency's efforts to track the terror leader. The National Security slept over BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Jerry Sandusky's wife testified Tuesday that she remembers most of the men who told a jury that her husband sexually abused them, but she said he never had inappropri- ate contact with them as boys. Wife: Jerry Sandusky never had inappropriate contact with boys who She also said that the basement where the boys would stay wasn't sound- proof, a statement that contradicted one man's testimony that he screamed during an assault but couldn't be heard. been barred by Justice Department policy, but federal agents in Arizona experimented with it in at least two investiga- tions during the George W. Bush administration before Fast and Furious. These experiments came as the department was under widespread criti- cism that the old policy of arresting every sus- pected low-level straw purchaser was still allowing tens of thou- sands of guns to reach Mexico. A straw pur- chaser is an illicit buyer of guns for others. assistant football coach's wife to the witness stand Tuesday after they went after two investigators, suggesting that police shared details among accusers and planted the seeds of the alleged vic- tims' evolving accounts of abuse. The jury also heard from a psychologist who testified that Sandusky has a personality disorder that might explain the ''creepy'' letters he sent to one of his accusers. The defense also offered more testimony touting Jerry Sandusky's reputa- tion as a family man and community stalwart. Sandusky is charged with 51 criminal counts related to 10 alleged vic- tims over a 15-year span. He's accused of engaging in illegal sexual contact ranging from fondling to forced oral and anal sex. Romney stays mum on status of Rubio in veep race WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney is stay- ing mum on whether Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a rising star in Republican politics, has been cut from his short list of potential running mates. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee told Fox News on Tuesday that ''a number of people are being vetted,'' but that only two people — he and a senior adviser — know who's on the list. ''Even Ann doesn't matic Rubio isn't being vetted for vice president. The news distracted from Tuesday's release of Rubio's memoir and the final day of Romney's six-state bus tour, which ended in Michigan Tues- day. ic Party pounced on the flap, blasting a message to reporters titled: ''Rubio fails preliminary review in Veepstakes.'' The Florida Democrat- Issa wants documents WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder wants a House panel to drop plans to try to hold him in contempt of Con- gress, and the panel's chairman wants more Justice Department doc- uments regarding Oper- ation Fast and Furious, a flawed gun-smuggling probe in Arizona. Holder and Rep. Dar- rell Issa, a California Republican, scheduled a private face-to-face meeting in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday in an effort to resolve their dispute over the investi- gation of Fast and Furi- ous by the House Over- sight and Government Reform Committee that Issa chairs. The commit- tee was scheduled to vote Wednesday on a contempt citation against the attorney gen- eral for failing to turn over subpoenaed docu- ments. know,'' Romney said of his wife. ''We talk about the possible people that I might select. But in terms of actually who is being vetted, that is something only two people know. And Beth Myers doesn't talk.'' Defense lawyers called the former Penn State The comments came amid reports by ABC News and The Washing- ton Post that the charis- Holder has said he is prepared to turn over material detailing how the department arrived at the conclusion that fed- eral agents engaged in a risky tactic called gun- walking. It resulted in hundreds of weapons purchased at gun shops in Arizona ending up in Mexico, many of them at crime scenes. Initially, the department denied that gun-walking had taken place. Relying on the tactic, federal agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives abandoned their usual practice of intercepting all weapons they believed to be illic- itly purchased. Instead, the goal of gun-walking was to track such weapons to high-level arms traffickers, who had long eluded prosecu- tion, and to dismantle their networks. Gun-walking has long K W I K K U T S Family Hair Salon $200 REGULAR HAIRCUT off with coupon Not good with other offers 1064 South Main St., Red Bluff • 529-3540 Reg. $13.95 Expires 6/30/12 death man SHINER, Texas (AP) — A young Texas father who beat to death with his fists a man molest- ing his 5-year-old daughter will not be charged, authorities said Tuesday, as they released a dramatic 911 tape of the dad frantical- ly pleading to send help before the man died. A Lavaca County grand jury on Tuesday declined to indict the 23-year-old father in the death of Jesus Mora Flores, 47, who was killed June 9 on a fami- ly ranch so remote that the father is heard pro- fanely screaming at a dispatcher who couldn't locate the property. ''Come on! This guy is going to die on me!'' the father yells in the 911 tape. ''I don't know what to do.'' Texas dad won't face charges for beating to Becoming increas- ingly frazzled, the father at one point tells the dispatcher he's going to put the man in his truck and drive him to a hospital before sheriff's deputies finally arrive. The Associated Press is not identifying the father in order to protect the daughter's identity. The AP does not identi- fy victims of sexual assault. Fla. doctors remove spear from teen's skull MIAMI (AP) — Doc- tors in Miami have suc- cessfully removed a spear accidentally shot through a teenager's skull during a spearfish- ing trip. 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