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WORLD BRIEFING Judge sentences man to life in prison for shooting Ariz. Rep. Giffords — Former Congress- woman Gabrielle Gif- fords, partially blind, her right arm paralyzed and limp, came face to face Thursday with the man who tried to kill her last year, standing beside her husband as he spoke of her struggles to recover from being shot in the head. ''Her life has been for- TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) ever changed. Plans she had for our family and her career have been immea- surably altered,'' said astronaut Mark Kelly, both he and his wife star- ing at the shooter inside a packed courtroom. ''Every day is a continu- ous struggle to do those things she once was so good at.'' 24, was then ordered to serve seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years in federal prison for the January 2011 shooting rampage that killed six people and wounded 13 others, including Gif- fords, outside a grocery store in Tucson, Ariz. Loughner pleaded guilty under an agreement that guarantees he will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possi- bility of parole. He avoids a federal death sentence, and local prosecutors said Thursday they would not seek state charges. One by one, survivors of the attack at a Giffords political event approached the courtroom podium to address Loughner, each turning toward him where he sat stoic and emotion- less at a table with his attorneys. Jared Lee Loughner, recession WASHINGTON (AP) — Austere ''fiscal cliff'' tax increases and spend- ing cuts set for the end of the year would send the economy back into reces- sion and cause a spike in the jobless rate to 9.1 per- cent if lame-duck law- makers and the White House can't head them off, congressional budget experts said in a dire analysis Thursday. "Fiscal cliff" would spark The tax and spending changes, which Congress will dig into next week, would cut the federal deficit by $503 billion through next September, said the Congressional Budget Office report. But the adjustments also would cause the economy to shrink by 0.5 percent next year. off the ''cliff'' for the entire year, which most Capitol-watchers now think is unlikely. All sides want to avoid the severe automatic changes, which are a one-two punch of expir- ing tax cuts and major across-the-board spend- ing cuts to the Pentagon and domestic programs. It is the looming punish- ment for previous fail- ures of a bitterly divided Congress and White House to deal with the government's spiraling debt or overhaul its unwieldy tax code. . The report, updating an analysis from last May, comes as a newly re-elect- ed President Barack Obama and Congress seek ways to avert or at least ease possible dam- age from the scheduled changes. All sides are promising cooperation, but many difficult deci- sions await and the poli- tics of raising tax revenue and cutting federal bene- fits programs is exceed- ingly tricky. The new study esti- mates that the nation's gross domestic product would grow by 2.2 per- cent next year if the Bush- era tax rates were extend- ed and would expand by almost 3 percent if Obama's 2 percentage point payroll tax cut and current jobless benefits for the long-term unem- ployed are extended. outages FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — Vincent Pina final- ly saw a couple of utility trucks coming down his street Thursday and started to wave in anticipation. But they just cruised past his house and kept on going. He hung his head in res- Frustration and anger mount over lingering ignation. 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Some are demanding inves- tigations of utilities they say aren't working fast enough. true DETROIT (AP) — In the days since Superstorm Sandy, an alarming predic- tion has flashed across the Internet: Hundreds of thou- sands of flood-damaged vehicles will inundate the nation's used-car market, and buyers might not be told which cars have been ruined. Claims about damaged cars in nation's used-car market not AP analysis of claims data supplied by major insurance companies shows the total number of damaged cars is a fraction of that. Farm, Progressive, New Jer- sey Manufacturers and Nationwide — have received about 31,000 car- damage claims. ''It's not anything near The companies — State Friday, November 9, 2012 – Daily News 9A sting of defeat: —American Crossroads and its nonprofit arm, Crossroads GPS. Together, the two groups spent $180 million on ads to oust Obama. rubble. what we're talking about in the Katrina situation,'' said James Appleton, president of the New Jersey Coalition of Automotive Retailers, a statewide association of more than 500 dealers. After investing $380 million in Romney, groups The Crossroads organi- zation, cofounded by for- mer President George W. Bush's longtime political counselor Karl Rove, also spent $76 million on ads to help Republicans running in competitive Senate seats, but the GOP lost five of seven of those races. The U.S. Chamber of Com- merce spent $33 million on ads for losing Republican Senate candidates. Villagers mourn 52 dead in ponder future WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican-leaning independent groups were supposed to be a key to vic- tory for Mitt Romney. But they ended up being among the big losers of the presi- dential race, spending an eye-popping $380 million on ads to oust President Barack Obama only to come up woefully short. Unleashed by the Citi- zens United Supreme Court decision, which allowed wealthy individuals and corporations to spend freely to influence elections, these super political action com- mittees and other groups played a big role in GOP victories in 2010 — only to fall down badly two years later in their first national electoral test. Republican losses from the top of the ticket on down are forcing the groups' leaders to re- examine their strategy and determine how best to spend their donors' money going forward. Among those feeling the Ivan, 19, survived. He had stayed in the house when the rest of his fami- ly went to the quarry, tak- ing care of some last- minute details to receive his accounting degree — the first in his family to have a professional career. His father had been saving for a party to celebrate his Nov. 23 graduation. ''He died working,'' said Antonia Lopez, a sister-in- law of Justo Vasquez. ''He was fighting for his kids.'' Only the oldest son, Guatemalan quake SAN CRISTOBAL CUCHO, Guatemala (AP) — The 10 members of the Vasquez family were found together under the rubble of the rock quarry that had been their livelihood, some in a desperate final embrace, others clinging to the faintest of dying pulses. As Guatemalans sought Thursday to pick up the pieces after a 7.4-magnitude quake, one family's tragic story came to symbolize the horror of a disaster that killed at least 52 people, and left thousands of others huddling in the cold shad- ows of cracked adobe build- ings, most without electrici- ty or water. On Thursday, neighbors came to pay their respects. They filed past 10 wooden caskets in the Vasquez fam- ily living room, and con- templated the unspeakable future that awaits the fami- ly's only surviving son. Justo Vasquez, his wife Ofelia Gomez, six children and two nephews died in the the states WASHINGTON (AP) — The long slog has turned into a sprint. Presi- dent Barack Obama's health care law survived the Supreme Court and the election; now the uninsured can sign up for coverage in about 11 months. ''We are out of the political gamesmanship and into the reality,'' said Sandy Praeger, Kansas' Republican insurance commissioner. Next week, states have to say if they're committed to building the framework for delivering health insurance to millions. Not all hurdles have been cleared. Health care overhaul now moves quickly to Republican governors who derided ''Oba- macare'' have to decide whether it's better for their states to now help carry it out. The adminis- tration could stumble car- rying out the complex leg- islation, or get tripped up if budget talks with Con- gress lead to scaling back the plan. Not true, according to insurance-claims data reviewed by The Associated Press. The actual number of affected vehicles is far smaller, and some of those cars will be repaired and kept by their owners. 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