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4B Daily News ��� Friday, December 14, 2012 WORLD BRIEFING Weekly applications for US jobless aid drop sharply WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell sharply for a fourth straight week, a sign that the job market may be improving. The Labor Department said Thursday that weekly applications for unemployment benefits fell 29,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 343,000, the lowest in two months. It is the second-lowest total this year. Applications are a proxy for layoffs, so the drop indicates that companies are cutting fewer jobs. But employers also need to step up hiring to rapidly push down the unemployment rate. Applications spiked five weeks ago because of Superstorm Sandy. The storm���s impact has now faded. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, fell 27,000 to 381,500. Before the storm, applications had fluctuated between 360,000 and 390,000 this year. The storm had little effect on overall hiring in November. Employers added 146,000 jobs last month, the government said last week. That���s about the same as the average monthly gain of 150,000 in the past year. Friends of man accused in Ore. mall shooting express shock PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� To police and witnesses, Jacob Tyler Roberts was a gunman on a mission, shooting numerous rounds from a semiautomatic rifle as he stalked through a Portland mall, ultimately killing two people and seriously injuring another. To Roberts��� shocked friends and family, he was just Jake, a happy, easygoing 22-year-old who liked video games and talked about moving to Hawaii. ������Jake was never the violent type,������ Roberts��� ex-girlfriend, Hannah Patricia Sansburn, told ABC News. ������His main goal was to make you laugh, smile, make you feel comfortable. You can���t reconcile the differences. ������I hate him for what he did, but I can���t hate the person I knew because it was nothing like the person who would go into a mall and go on a rampage,������ she said. The Clackamas County sheriff���s office said Roberts had several fully loaded magazines when he arrived at the mall Tuesday. Roberts parked his 1996 green Volkswagen Jetta in front of the second-floor entrance to Macy���s and walked through the store into the mall and began firing randomly in the food court. He fatally shot Steven Tehama Country Real Estate WESTERN REAL ESTATE MINCH PROPERTY MANAGEMENT 760 Main St. ��� 530-527-5514 Commercial Properties For Sale: ��� 840 Main St. (11,400 sq/ft). . . . . . . . . . . . . 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GOP decries looming ���regulatory cliff��� WASHINGTON (AP) ��� While the ������fiscal cliff������ of looming tax increases and spending cuts dominates political conversation in Washington, some Republicans and business groups see signs of a ������regulatory cliff������ that they say could be just as damaging to the economy. For months, federal agencies and the White House have sidetracked dozens of major regulations that cover everything from power plant pollution to workplace safety to a crackdown on Wall Street. The rules had been largely put on hold during the presidential campaign as the White House sought to quiet Republican charges that President Barack Obama was an overzealous regulator who is killing U.S. jobs. But since the election, the Obama administration has quietly reopened the regulations pipeline. In recent weeks, the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed rules to update water quality guidelines for beaches and deal with runoff from logging roads. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, meanwhile, has proposed longdelayed regulations requiring auto makers to include event data recorders ��� better known as ������black boxes������ ��� in all new cars and light trucks beginning in 2014. Carter Center won���t monitor Egypt���s vote CAIRO (AP) ��� Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter���s center said Thursday it will not deploy monitors for Egypt���s constitutional referendum, amid deepening polarization over the process of adopting a document guiding how the country is to be governed following its 2011 revolution. The center was the main international group monitoring earlier Egyptian votes, and its absence increases the likelihood that, if the constitution backed by President Mohammed Morsi and his Islamist allies passes, the rushed process leading to the Saturday referendum will further undermine the document���s legitimacy. It also comes as opposition and rights groups warn that the breakneck pace of organizing the vote and changes to the procedure for accrediting elections monitors may lead to fraud in the vote. Egypt was plunged into political crisis three weeks ago when Morsi issued a decree giving himself near-absolute power. The president rescinded the decree in the face of broad criticism and huge street protests, but not before a panel charged with drawing up the country���s constitution pushed through a draft in a marathon Dec. 1 overnight session and the president ordered a referendum two weeks later. Morsi���s supporters say the constitution will help end the political instability that has gripped Egypt since the March 2011 overthrow of autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak in a popular uprising. His opponents say minority concerns have been ignored and the constitution is full of obscurely worded clauses that could allow Islamists to restrict civil liberties. 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