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from KREM 2 News
PHOTOS: Conspiracy theories people believe
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from POLITICO
Obama budget: Why now?
By DAVID NATHER and DARREN SAMUELSOHN
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from The Spokesman-Review
Judge rejects limits on morning-after pill
By Monte Morin and Geoffrey Mohan Los Angeles Times
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Tensions on Korean Peninsula could boost U.S.-China relations
Lara Jakes Associated Press
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Tower closings put on hold at Felts Field, other airports
Tom Sowa The Spokesman-Review
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Agencies team up to find solutions
City spurs effort to match assistance to varied needs of homeless families
Jody Lawrence-Turner The Spokesman-Review
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Beard-cutting Amish seek prison relocations
Associated Press
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Offshore banking leaks target world’s richest
Lori Hinnant Associated Press
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Obama to present ‘compromise’ budget
Document two months late; House, Senate already passed plans
Anita Kumar Lesley Clark
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In brief: From Wire Reports:
Official questions border security
WASHINGTON – The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee asked the Obama administration Friday to provide data to back up its assertions that the southwest border is more secure than it has been in decades.
In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said the administration’s claims of success on the border appeared at odds with a Los Angeles Times story Thursday that cited details from internal Customs and Border Patrol reports.
The Times story quoted internal reports on the Vader, short for Vehicle and Dismount Exploitation Radar. The system, which is mounted on a Predator drone, tracks people on the ground. Border Patrol agents are then sent to intercept them.
The internal reports showed that border agents apprehended fewer than half of the individuals who the airborne radar showed had illegally crossed into a 150-square-mile stretch of Arizona west of Nogales between Oct. 1 and Jan. 17.
Dozens killed in building collapse
MUMBAI – The death toll in the collapse of a residential building being constructed illegally in India’s financial capital rose to 68 today amid diminishing hopes of finding any survivors alive, police said.
Another 70 people were injured when the eight-story building on forest land in the Mumbai suburb of Thane caved in into a mound of steel and concrete Thursday evening, police said.
Thirty-seven of the injured were still in city hospitals and the rest discharged after medical treatment, said Sandeep Malvi, a spokesman for the local municipal corporation.
Most bodies have been recovered, but some people might still be trapped in the debris, said Malvi.
Malvi said 16 bodies were recovered overnight.
At the time of the collapse, between 100 and 150 people were in the building.
The dead included 17 children, police said.
Trayvon Martin’s parents settle claim
SANFORD, Fla. – The parents of a teenager who was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer last year have settled a wrongful-death claim against the homeowners association of the Florida subdivision where their son was killed.
An attorney for Trayvon Martin’s parents – Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin – filed that paperwork in Seminole County Portions of it were made available for public review Friday.
According to the Orlando Sentinel newspaper, the settlement amount was marked out in a five-page document. Lower in the agreement, the parties specify that they will keep the amount confidential.
Martin was fatally shot in February 2012 by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman during a confrontation in a subdivision in Sanford, about 30 miles north of Orlando.
Rally targets cuts in cancer research
WASHINGTON – Thousands of prominent cancer and other medical researchers will rally in the nation’s capital Monday to protest federal funding cuts that began several years ago.
Influential scientists say the United States has fallen to 10th place in medical research spending as a percentage of its total economy, at a time when China, Britain, Singapore, India and other countries are increasing their investments.
The rally is being organized by the American Association for Cancer Research, which Monday morning will suspend its annual convention in Washington and ask 15,000 attendees to gather about a dozen blocks from both the White House and the U.S. Capitol.
Trade deficit shrinks as exports near record
WASHINGTON – The U.S. trade deficit unexpectedly narrowed in February as exports climbed close to an all-time high and the volume of imported crude oil fell to the lowest level in 17 years.
The Commerce Department says the gap between exports and imports shrank to $43 billion in February, down 3.4 percent from January’s revised $44.5 billion. It was the smallest trade imbalance since December, when the gap had declined to $38.1 billion, the lowest point in nearly three years.
Exports rose 0.8 percent to $186 billion, close to the record high set in December. Stronger exports of U.S. energy products and autos offset lower farm equipment and airplane sales.
Imports were flat at $228.9 billion with the volume of crude oil falling to the lowest point since March 1996.
In-store portrait studios close unexpectedly
ST. LOUIS – A financially troubled company is abruptly shuttering its more than 2,000 portrait studios that are found nationwide in locations such as Wal-Mart and Sears stores.
CPI Corp. said in a two-paragraph statement on its website that it’s saddened by the announcement and that it is trying to fulfill as many customer orders as possible. It urges customers with questions to contact their local store.
The company last month announced in a federal securities filing that it had received a fourth forbearance agreement from its lenders, and that it had until today to meet its loan obligations.
Judge OKs settlement of Bank of America suit
NEW YORK – A New York judge approved Bank of America’s $2.43 billion settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought by shareholders over its acquisition of former competitor Merrill Lynch.
A Bank of America Corp. spokesman said a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Manhattan approved the settlement Friday.
In the lawsuit, shareholders had alleged that Bank of America and some of its officers made false or misleading statements about both companies’ financial health when Bank of America agreed to buy Merrill for $20 billion, at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.
Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America later disclosed that Merrill would take $27.6 billion in losses that year.
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Clinton forceful on rights of women
Jocelyn Noveck, Ken Thomas Associated Press
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Pope: Decisive action urgent on sexual abuse
Mcclatchy-Tribune
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Outcome in Syria key as Mideast rulers visit
Lara Jakes, Josh Lederman Associated Press
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Yemen asks for citizens’ release from U.S. custody
Guantanamo Bay holds 90 people from Arab state
Adam Baron McClatchy
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Embassies in North Korea not safe, country warnsAssociated Press
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Judge won’t block BP spill payouts
Oil company could pay billions to Gulf businesses
Michael Kunzelman Associated Press
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KFC serving it up boneless
Chicken chain giant cites young customers’ habits
Candice Choi Associated Press
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Boeing says 787 battery tests complete
Joshua Freed Associated Press
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U.S. job growth down in March
Latest report shows recovery is still fragile, economists say
Christopher S. Rugaber, Paul Wiseman Associated Press
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Stocks take tumble on jobs report
Kate Gibson MarketWatch
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Idaho’s Risch vows to stall U.N. arms treaty
Kip Hill Correspondent
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Otter touts legislative wins
Governor ‘really proud’ of this session
John Miller Associated Press
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Asbestos attorneys to get $4 million
Twenty percent fee in Libby case fair, judge rules
Matthew Brown Associated Press
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Goodall to reflect on humans, natural world
Jennifer Pignolet The Spokesman-Review
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State tops West in cold, hard cache
Washington snowpack 112 percent of normal
Doug Esser Associated Press
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Vestal: Condon’s civil service remake merits closer study
Shawn Vestal The Spokesman-Review
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opinion:
Editorial: Teaming up fights both criminals, perception
Politicizing immigration
Charles Krauthammer
The steep downside of e-commerce
Froma Harrop
Guest opinion: GMO plants alarm farmers
Seth Williams
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Shoshone-Paiute leader Gibson dies
John Miller Associated Press
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Washington state Senate approves budget plan
Jim Camden The Spokesman-Review
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State of new unions
Same-sex weddings are starting to evolve with a mix of traditions
Cedar Burnett Associated Press
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Strategies to ease frequent belching
Anthony L. Komaroff Universal Uclick
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Idaho’s Risch vows to stall U.N. arms treaty
Kip Hill Correspondent
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Otter touts legislative wins
Governor ‘really proud’ of this session
John Miller Associated Press
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Asbestos attorneys to get $4 million
Twenty percent fee in Libby case fair, judge rules
Matthew Brown Associated Press
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Goodall to reflect on humans, natural world
Jennifer Pignolet The Spokesman-Review
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State tops West in cold, hard cache
Washington snowpack 112 percent of normal
Doug Esser Associated Press
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Vestal: Condon’s civil service remake merits closer study
Shawn Vestal The Spokesman-Review
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opinion:
Editorial: Teaming up fights both criminals, perception
Politicizing immigration
Charles Krauthammer
The steep downside of e-commerce
Froma Harrop
Guest opinion: GMO plants alarm farmers
Seth Williams
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Shoshone-Paiute leader Gibson dies
John Miller Associated Press
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Washington state Senate approves budget plan
Jim Camden The Spokesman-Review
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State of new unions
Same-sex weddings are starting to evolve with a mix of traditions
Cedar Burnett Associated Press
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Strategies to ease frequent belching
Anthony L. Komaroff Universal Uclick
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