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U.S. Top News: Obama budget to offer program cuts, seek deficit deal: official

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04/5/2013
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Obama budget to offer program cuts, seek deficit deal: official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will offer cuts to Social Security and other entitlement programs in a budget proposal aimed at swaying Republicans to compromise on a deficit-reduction deal, a senior administration official said on Friday.
Judge strikes restrictions on "morning-after" pill
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make the "morning-after" emergency contraception pill available without a prescription to all girls of reproductive age.
Police arrest man in probe of Colorado shooting: report
(Reuters) - Police in Colorado on Friday arrested one of two suspected white supremacists they were seeking in connection with the killing of the state's prison chief, an ABC television affiliate reported.
Detective, murder suspect die in Mississippi altercation
(Reuters) - A police officer and a murder suspect were killed after an altercation during questioning escalated to gunfire at police headquarters in Jackson, Mississippi, authorities said on Thursday.
Colorado gunman had homicidal thoughts weeks before shooting: records
DENVER (Reuters) - A University of Colorado psychiatrist who once treated accused theater gunman James Holmes described him to a campus police officer as having had "homicidal thoughts" five weeks before he allegedly killed 12 moviegoers, newly unsealed court records showed on Thursday.
Legal wrangles delay sea defenses in New Jersey towns hit by Sandy
SHIP BOTTOM, New Jersey (Reuters) - A temporary flashing sign on the causeway to New Jersey's Long Beach Island thanks owners of oceanfront properties who have accepted a plan to build new barriers to protect them from storms like Sandy, which ravaged the U.S. northeast coast last year.
Youths pledge nonviolence on anniversary of Martin Luther King's death
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Honoring the memory of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on the 45th anniversary of his assassination, dozens of young people pledged at a ceremony on Thursday to embrace his message of nonviolence as a way of life.
Second missing California hiker rescued from mountain canyon
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A college student lost since Sunday in a California mountain canyon was rescued and flown to a hospital on Thursday, a day after her hiking companion was found dazed, dehydrated but otherwise safe in a nearby ravine, authorities said.
Interior Department recommends removal of dams on Klamath River to aid salmon
(Reuters) - The government on Thursday recommended the removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and California to aid native salmon runs and help resolve a decades-long struggle over allocation of scarce water resources.
Influential U.S. film critic Roger Ebert dies at 70
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Roger Ebert, who was the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize and became an unlikely TV star while hosting a movie review show with fellow critic Gene Siskel, died in Chicago on Thursday, two days after he disclosed his cancer had returned.
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