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April 19, 2012 | | BUDGET WARS A proposed state budget bill would effectively strip federal funding to the family-planning organization. Sen. Nina Turner tells The Daily Beast’s Abigail Pesta, "It’s a social, racial, and economic attack." NORWAY SHOOTER His goal, apparently, was to kill everyone on the island. In the ongoing trial—or, as some critics would call it, “pulpit”—for Norway shooter Anders Behring Breivik, the confessed killer revealed that he wanted to capture former prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland during the Utøya island massacre. Breivik said he was going to film himself cutting off her head and post the video on the Internet. Fortunately, Brundtland had left the island before the shooting. Secret Service At least three Secret Service members are being shown the door over the Colombia scandal—and the Secret Service director said Thursday that more resignations are expected. The agency announced that one will be fired, another will retire, and a third has been recommended for firing but will be allowed to appeal. Eight others have been placed on administrative leave and had their security clearances revoked. Eleven Secret Service employees and 10 military personnel are under investigation for soliciting prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia, two days before President Obama arrived for a summit. One ousted agent may be filing a lawsuit. DEADLY At least 30 people were killed and more than 100 injured Thursday in 12 bombings in Baghdad and other northern Iraq cities, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but a Baghdad military spokesman said al Qaeda was behind them. In the wake of the first major attacks in Iraq in more than a month, many worried that insurgents are on a campaign to undermine the Shiite-led government. Sunni lawmakers blamed Iraq’s political wrangling for the deteriorating security, and a Kurdish regional leader has called Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s government a dictatorship. COLD CASE The FBI and the NYPD on Thursday searched a basement of a New York City apartment building in search of Etan Patz, a 6-year-old boy who went missing in 1979 and captivated the nation. Patz disappeared after leaving his home on May 25, 1979, and has never been found. The basement is about 200 feet from where the Patz family lived, and NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said while the basement has been searched before, there is drywall there that wasn’t there in 1979. Two law-enforcement officials told NBC New York that there is a possible new suspect in the case. | | 
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