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WASHINGTON(AP) -- In the summerof 2011, when a debtcrisis like the currentone loomed,President BarackObama warnedRepublicans thatolder Americansmight not get theirSocial Securitychecks unless therewas a deal to raise thenation's borrowingl i m i t .

After weeks ofb r i n k m a n s h i p ,Republicans consented and Obama agreed to a deficit-reduction plan the GOP wanted. Crisis averted, for a time.

Now that there's a fresh showdown, the possibility ofSocial Security cuts -and more - is back on the table.

The government could run out of cash to pay all its billsin full as early as Feb. 15, according to one authoritativeestimate, and congressional Republicans want significantspending cuts in exchange for raising the borrowing limit.Obama, forced to negotiate an increase in 2011, haspledged not to negotiate again.

Without an agreement, every option facing his admin-istration would be unprecedented.

It would require a degree of financial creativity thatcould test the law, perhaps even the Constitution.

It could shortchange Social Security recipients andother people, including veteran and the poor, who rely ongovernment programs.

It could force the Treasury to contemplate selling gov-ernment assets, a step considered but rejected in 2011. Inshort, the Treasury would have to create its own form oftriage, creating a priority list of its most crucial obligations,from interest payments to debtors to benefits to vulnerableAmericans.

"It may be that somewhere down the line someone willchallenge what the administration did in that moment, butin the moment, who's going to stop them?" asked DouglasHoltz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional BudgetOffice. "I pray we never have to find out how imaginativethey are."

In such a debt crisis, the president would have todecide what laws he wants to break. Does he breach theborrowing limit without a congressional OK? Does heignore spending commitments required by law?

In a letter to Obama on Friday, Senate Democraticleaders urged him to consider taking any "lawful steps thatensure that America does not break its promises and trig-ger a global economic crisis - without congressionalapproval, if necessary."

The White House has resisted that path. It has reject-ed recommendations that it invoke a provision in the 14thAmendment to the Constitution that states that "the validityof the public debt of the United States ... shall not be ques-tioned."

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"There are onlytwo options to dealwith the debt limit:Congress can pay itsbills or they can fail toact and put the nationinto default," WhiteHouse press secre-tary Jay Carney said."Congress needs todo its job."

So what's left ifCongress does notact in time?

Technically, thegovernment hit the debt

ceiling at the end of December. Since then, TreasurySecretary Timothy Geithner has halted full payments intothe retirement and disability fund for government workersand to the health benefits fund of Postal Service retirees.

The Treasury can stop payments to a special fund thatpurchases or sells foreign currencies to stabilize worldfinancial markets.

Past administrations have taken such steps to buytime awaiting a debt ceiling increase. That happened underPresidents Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush. Thegovernment restored those funds after Congress raised thedebt ceiling.

Those measures and others could keep the govern-ment solvent, perhaps as far as early March, according toan analysis by the Bipartisan Policy Center.

There are other extreme possibilities as well.

The federal government could sell some of its assets,from its gold stockpile to its student loan portfolio.

"All these things are in principle marketable, and in acrisis you'd get huge discounts on them," said Holtz-Eakin,now head of the American Action Forum, a conservativepublic policy institute. "They wouldn't be good ordinary busi-ness, but you would be in extraordinary times."

According to a treasury inspector general report lastyear, department officials in 2011 considered and rejectedthe idea, concluding that gold sales would destabilize theinternational financial system, that selling off the studentloan portfolio was not feasible and that such "fire sales"would buy only limited time.

An idea pushed by some liberals would take advan-tage of a legal loophole meant for coin collectors and havethe Treasury mint platinum coins that could be deposited atthe Federal Reserve and used to pay the nation's bills. Butthe Treasury issued a statement Saturday putting the ideato rest, saying neither the department nor the FederalReserve believes the law "can or should be used to facili-tate the production of platinum coins for the purpose ofavoiding an increase in the debt limit."

Once all efforts are exhausted, then the governmentwould be in uncharted territory.

At that point, the government would continue to get taxrevenue, but hardly enough to keep up with the bills.

HITTING THE DEBT LIMIT:WHAT BILLS WOULD

BE PAID?Barack Obama warned Republicans that older

Americans might not get their Social Securitychecks unless there was a deal to raise thenation's borrowing limit. Page 1

NEW CORVETTE BURSTSONTO THE ROAD AFTER

9 YEARS

To many fans, the new Corvette symbolizes therebirth of America's auto industry after its neardeath in 2009. Page 2

REDDIT CO-FOUNDERDIES IN NY WEEKS

BEFORE TRIAL

Swartz's family in Chicago expressed not onlygrief over his death but also bitterness towardfederal prosecutors pursuing the case againsthim in Massachusetts. Page 3

FLORIDA ACCIDENTSTATISTICS

Accident Statistics from Florida Departmentof Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. Page 4

FLORIDA ACCIDENTREPORTS

This Weeks Accident Reports from Variouscountys in Florida. Page 5

FRENCH JETS BOMB MAJORMALIAN CITY IN NORTH

French fighter jets bombed rebel targets in amajor city in Mali's north Sunday, Page 6

NRA SAYS CONGRESS WILLNOT PASS WEAPONS BAN

The powerful gun lobby is gauging enough sup-port in Congress to block a law that would banassault weapons,. Page 7

FEDERAL JUDGE LIFTS BANON NEVADA HORSE

ROUNDUP

The Bureau of Land Management can resumeits roundup of dozens of wild mustangs innorthern Nevada, but wranglers must limit theiruse of electric cattle prods. Page 8

GETTY MUSEUM TORETURN ANCIENT ARTIFACT

TO SICILYThe J. Paul Getty Museum said Thursday it plans toreturn to Sicily a terra-cotta head depicting the Greekgod Hades Page 8

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President Barack Obama discusses the continuing budget talks in the briefingroom of the White House in Washington.

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DETROIT (AP) --When General Motorsengineers and designersstarted work on then e x t - g e n e r a t i o nCorvette, they drew upthe usual requirementsfor the star of Americanmuscle cars.

Killer looks. Bigengine. Handles like arace car.

But topping the listback was something atodds with the roar of thecar's big V-8: Gasm i l e a g e .

The new Corvettecould not be a gas guzzler. Stricter government rules wereforcing a leap in fuel economy. If the car burned too muchgas, it would trigger fines from regulators and never getbuilt.

"There won't be a Corvette if we don't care about fueleconomy," said Tadge Juechter, the car's chief engineer.

But the 2014 Corvette is here, the first all-new versionin nine years. The king of American sports cars, driven byastronauts and celebrated in a Prince song, rolled out Sundaynight in Detroit. It will arrive in showrooms this fall.

To many fans, the new Corvette symbolizes the rebirthof America's auto industry after its near death in 2009, show-ing the world that it again can lead in technology, styling andperformance - at a lower cost that European competitors.

Getting there was tough for the 1,000-member Corvetteteam, which gave the car the code name "C7." GM's bank-ruptcy slowed development twice. With each delay, newsafety and gas mileage regulations forced changes. TheCorvette team overhauled the car: aluminum replaced steel,super-light rivets held parts together, and the V-8 enginekicked down to four cylinders at highway speeds, savingfuel.

All the changes helped it overcome nine years of gov-ernment crash safety requirements that could have bloatedthe car. But even with the lighter materials, the regulationshave pushed its weight to a little more than the current basemodel's 3,200 pounds. Still, it's an engineering achievement.The Corvette is so new that it only shares two parts with thecurrent model.

GM said testing is still being done on the car's fueleconomy, but it'll be better than the current base model's 16mpg in the city and 26 on the highway. Juechter said the win-dow sticker highway mileage won't reach 30 mpg, but hewouldn't be surprised to see some drivers get that or more.

The car's usual buyers - men in their mid-50s - will also

notice dramaticchanges on the outsideof the two-seat car. Thehood slopes low to slicethrough the wind. Allthe vents and scoopshave functional purpos-es like cooling thebrakes or transmission.

On the back,designers took cuesfrom the1963 Corvette,with a sloping roof thattapers toward the bot-tom. The car has asmall Stingray badgeon each side, completewith gills. And there's amore modern renditionof the Corvette's

crossed-flag logo.

A 6.2-liter small-block V-8 with 450 horsepower takesthe car from zero to 60 mph in under four seconds. That's atleast a few tenths of a second faster than the current basemodel.

Engineers also redesigned the somewhat-chintzy interi-or, giving it a jet cockpit look with leather, carbon fiber andsoft plastics.

GM hopes the styling, performance and updated dash-board electronics will expand the car's appeal to youngerbuyers. The Corvette's been a favorite of adrenaline junkiesfor 60 years. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard owned onefrom the first year - 1953.

The company won't quote a price on the 2014 model.But Juechter said someone who bought the current versioncan afford the new one. The Corvette starts at $49,600. Thatis more than $30,000 below what GM considers its chiefcompetitor, the Porsche 911. The car makes a decent profitfor GM despite relatively low sales, Juechter said.

GM wouldn't give sales targets for the new car. Lastyear it sold only 14,000 of the aging Corvettes, down fromover 30,000 the first few years after the current version wasrolled out. Porsche sold about 8,500 911s last year.

The prospect of a new `Vette has fans waiting anxious-ly, browsing the Internet for unauthorized photos or draw-ings. Thousands of aficionados live in the U.S., and evenEurope and the Middle East.

John Browning, 70, president of the Renegade CorvetteClub of Hollywood, Fla., one of 600 such clubs in the U.S,said some Corvette lovers can't contain themselves.

"I've got one member, he just sold his '13 in anticipa-tion, to wait for the '14," said Browning. "I think the Corvetteis the icon. As far as I'm concerned you can't get a betterdeal."

CORRECTS MONTH - The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray debuts inDetroit, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. The C7 Corvette debuted before the start ofthe media previews at the North American International Auto Show

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NEW YORK (AP) -- The family of a Reddit co-founder isblaming prosecutors for his suicide just weeks before hewas to go on trial on federal charges that he stole millionsof scholarly articles.

Aaron Swartz hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartmentFriday night, his family and authorities said. The 26-year-old had fought to make online content free to the publicand as a teenager helped create RSS, a family of Webfeed formats used to gather updates from blogs, newsheadlines, audio and video for users.

In 2011, he was charged with stealing millions of scien-tific journals from a computer archive at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in an attempt tomake them freely available.

He had pleaded not guilty, and his federal trial was tobegin next month. If convicted, he faced decades inprison and a fortune in fines.

In a statement released Saturday, Swartz's family inChicago expressed not only grief over his death but alsobitterness toward federal prosecutors pursuing the caseagainst him in Massachusetts.

"Aaron's death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is theproduct of a criminal justice system rife with intimidationand prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officialsin the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney's Office and at MITcontributed to his death," they said.

Elliot Peters, Swartz's California-based defense attorneyand a former federal prosecutor in Manhattan, told TheAssociated Press on Sunday that the case "was horriblyoverblown" because Swartz had "the right" to downloadfrom JSTOR, a subscription service used by MIT thatoffers digitized copies of articles from more than 1,000academic journals.

Peters said even the company took the stand that thecomputer crimes section of the U.S. Attorney's Office inBoston had overreached in seeking prison time forSwartz and insisting - two days before his suicide - thathe plead guilty to all 13 felony counts. Peters saidJSTOR's attorney, Mary Jo White - the former top feder-al prosecutor in Manhattan - had called StephenHeymann, the lead Boston prosecutor in the case.

"She asked that they not pursue the case," Peters said.

Reached at his home in Winchester, Mass., Heymannreferred all questions to a spokeswoman for the U.S.Attorney's Office in Boston, Christina DiIorio-Sterling.She did not immediately respond to an email and phonemessage from the AP seeking comment.

A zealous advocate of public online access, Swartz wasextolled Saturday by those who believed as he did. Hewas "an extraordinary hacker and activist," the ElectronicFrontier Foundation, an international nonprofit digitalrights group based in California wrote in a tribute on itshome page.

"Playing Mozart's Requiem in honor of a brave and bril-

liant man," tweeted Carl Malamud, an Internet publicdomain advocate who believes in free access to legallyobtained files.

Swartz co-founded the social news website Reddit,which was later sold to Conde Nast, as well as the polit-ical action group Demand Progress, which campaignsagainst Internet censorship.

He apparently struggled at times with depression, writingin a 2007 blog post: "Surely there have been times whenyou've been sad. Perhaps a loved one has abandonedyou or a plan has gone horribly awry. ... You feel worth-less. ... depressed mood is like that, only it doesn't comefor any reason and it doesn't go for any either."

Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig, faculty directorof the Safra Center for Ethics where Swartz was once afellow, wrote: "We need a better sense of justice. ... Thequestion this government needs to answer is why it wasso necessary that Aaron Swartz be labeled a `felon.'"

Before the Massachusetts' case, Swartz aided Malamudin his effort to post federal court documents for freeonline, rather than the few cents per page that the gov-ernment charges through its electronic archive, PACER.Swartz wrote a program in 2008 to legally download thefiles using free access via public libraries, according toThe New York Times. About 20 percent of all the courtpapers were made available until the government shutdown the library access.

The FBI investigated but didn't charge Swartz, he wroteon his website.

Three years later, Swartz was arrested in Boston. Thefederal government accused Swartz of using MIT's com-puter network to steal nearly 5 million academic articlesfrom JSTOR.

Prosecutors said Swartz hacked into MIT's system inNovember 2010 after breaking into a computer wiringcloset on campus. Prosecutors said he intended to dis-tribute the articles on file-sharing websites.

JSTOR didn't press charges once it reclaimed the arti-cles from Swartz, and some legal experts considered thecase unfounded, saying that MIT allows guests access tothe articles and Swartz, a fellow at Harvard's SafraCenter for Ethics, was a guest.

Experts puzzled over the arrest and argued that theresult of the actions Swartz was accused of was thesame as his PACER program: more information publiclyavailable.

The prosecution "makes no sense," Demand ProgressExecutive Director David Segal said at the time. "It's liketrying to put someone in jail for allegedly checking toomany books out of the library."

Swartz faced 13 felony charges, including breaching siteterms and intending to share downloaded files throughpeer-to-peer networks, computer fraud, wire fraud,obtaining information from a protected computer, andcriminal forfeiture.

JSTOR announced this week that it would make morethan 4.5 million articles publicly available for free.

This Dec. 8, 2012 photo provided by ThoughtWorks shows AaronSwartz, in New York. Swartz, a co-founder of Reddit, hanged himselfFriday, Jan. 11, 2013, in New York City. In 2011, he was charged withstealing millions of scientific journals from a computer archive at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in an attempt to make themfreely available. He had pleaded not guilty, and his federal trial was tobegin next month.

Continued from page 1According to the Bipartisan Policy Center, the federal gov-ernment between Feb. 15 and March 15 will get $277 bil-lion in revenue and face $452 billion in obligations.

The Treasury would have to decide whether to paysome obligations and not others or to simply pay for oneday's bills as it tax revenue rolls in, exponentially delayingpayments the longer the debt ceiling is not raised. Undervirtually every scenario contemplated, payment of intereston the debt takes precedence to put off a calamitousdefault.

"I happen to think the triage would be chosen to createthe maximum amount of political pressure to break theimpasse right away, which would be withholding Social

AP INTERVIEW: GEORGE P. BUSHW E I G H I N G R U N I N T E X A S

and his uncle is former President and Texas Gov.George W. Bush. Perry has been governor sinceGeorge W. left for the White House.

Land commissioner traditionally has been a step-pingstone to higher office, but Bush said little aboutany plans to eventually become a national politicalforce.

Instead, he spoke of how his past experience as anasset manager would help him manage thePermanent Schools Fund, which pays for publiceducation and is managed by the land commission-er. He also said his perspective as an Afghanistanwar veteran will help him use the post to become aleader in veterans' affairs.

Bush said he would announce his final decisionafter the Texas Legislature adjourns in May butadded that his choice will depend "where the gov-


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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- George Prescott Bush isgearing up to run for a little-known but powerfuloffice in a state where his family already is a politi-cal dynasty and where his Hispanic roots couldhelp extend a stranglehold on power Republicanshave enjoyed for two decades.

The 36-year-old Fort Worth attorney says he isclose to settling on campaigning for Texas landcommissioner next year. He doesn't expect tomake up his mind until he knows what Texas Gov.Rick Perry, a fellow Republican, decides to do.

"We for sure are running, the question is theoffice," Bush told The Associated Press during thefirst interview about his political future since filingpaperwork in November to seek elected office inTexas.

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F L O R I D A A C C I D E N T S T A T I S T I C SData From the Official Website of the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. www.flhsmv.gov

Daylight 151,669 937 86,517 64,215

Dusk 6,115 44 3,305 2,766

Dawn 2,818 39 1,490 1,289

Dark 71,188 1,234 32,982 36,972

Unknown 3,671 7 553 3,111

Total 235,466 2,261 124,847 108,353

Dry 200,153 1,995 106,486 91,674

Wet 31,490 245 17,139 14.106

Slippery 975 7 542 426

Icy 61 1 27 33

Other 2,782 13 655 2,114

Total 235,461 2,261 124,847 108,353

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Two lanes shut on NB I-95

A crash on northbound Interstate 95 south ofNorthwest 79th Street in Miami-Dade is blocking tworegular lanes.

Crash, Boca Raton

The vehicle crashed into wall that leads into thedevelopment causing major structure damage. Thedemolished wall blocked traffic heading west forseveral hours. He says parts of the damaged vehi-cle were found at the scene like a headlight whichshows the vehicle appears to be a 2011 DodgeDurango.

July 30, 2012

July 28, 2012

Man arrested on hit-and-run charges in fatal

motorcycle crash

January 9, 2013A Lake Mary doctor was arrested on hit-and-runcharges after he hit a motorcyclist in VolusiaCounty and then left the scene, authorities said.

The Florida Highway Patrol said Dr. Kevin Wynnehit 50-year-old Sabra Vocaturo with his SUV inFebruary on State Road 415 and never stopped tohelp. Vocaturo was thrown from her bike intooncoming traffic.

Authorities said two drivers ran over Vocaturo.They stopped to help but told officers there wasnothing they could do.

Wynne was arrested at his Heathrow home onThursday by the Florida Highway Patrol.

His lawyer contacted FHP the day after the crash,telling them where to find Wynne's Infiniti SUV,which had a part missing.

Wynne is being held on $50,000 bail.

Florida Highway Patrol has released the name ofthe St. Augustine Beach man killed in the single-car crash near Interstate 95 in Volusia County thisafternoon.

Investigators say, Hallman, 41, was on BevilleRoad merging onto the I-95 entrance ramp atabout 3:45 p.m. when he lost control of his 2003Ford pickup truck. The truck flipped over severaltimes and Hallman, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was ejected from the vehicle.

Hallman died on scene. There was one other pas-senger in the truck at the time of the crash. RobertThornton, 43, was wearing a seat belt. He survivedthe crash and was taken to Halifax Medical Centerwith serious injuries.

Crash blocks 5 lanesnorthbound I-95

January 8, 2013

St. Augustine Beach mandies in crash near I-95 in

Volusia County

The northbound lanes of Interstate 95 were experi-encing heavy delays through Fort LauderdaleTuesday afternoon.A crash near Oakland Park Boulevard that wasreported shortly after 12:30 p.m. was intially block-ing five northbound travel lanes. The multi-vehiclecrash was reported shortly after 12:30 p.m.By 1:30 p.m. most of the travel lanes were reopen-ing but considerable delays remained in place.

January 8, 2013

Debris on I-95, OaklandPark

South Florida commuters are finding dry roads forthe peak of the morning rush on Monday.

Among the incidents and crashes being reportedthrough the region by the Florida Highway Patroland Florida Department of Transportation:8:19 a.m., hit-and-run crash on southbound I-95near the entrance ramp to Commercial Boulevard inOakland Park;Tire debris reported in the left land of I-95 afterCommercial Boulevard in Oakland Park;8:02 a.m., crash on the northbound State Road 7ramp to I-95 inFort Lauderdale;

January 10, 2013

truck crashes into passen-ger bus on I-75 0ne man

dead, one injured

One person was left in critical condition after acrash on Interstate 75 in Sumter County involving abus carrying 27 people and a truck.

The Florida Highway Patrol said it happenedaround 7:30 p.m. in the northbound lanes of I-75near mile marker 333.

Troopers said the passenger bus was heading forMexico from Lake Wales when it slowed down forcongested traffic.

That’s when officials say the bus was hit frombehind by a truck.That truck went down an embankment, spunaround and hit some small trees before finally stop-ping, according to FHP.

A passenger in the truck was taken to OrlandoRegional Medical Center with critical injuries.The two other drivers and the 27 passengers onthe bus were not injured.

January 10, 2013

Southbound lanes ofInterstate 95 in West Palm

Interstate 95 in West PalmBeach blocked after crash

Four lanes of southbound Interstate 95 are blockedin West Palm Beach because of a crash.At least three vehicles were involved just south ofPalm Beach Lakes Boulevard about 10:30 a.m.

WPBF 25 News has learned at least one personhad to be extricated.

Traffic is backed up past the Palm Beach LakesBoulevard exit as a resultRead more: http://www.wpbf.com/news/south-flori-da/Palm-Beach-County-News/Southbound-lanes-of-Interstate-95-in-West-Palm-Beach-blocked-after-crash/-/8815578/15117892/-/l9u09j/-/index.html#ixzz1y59jZZO8

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Four lanes of southbound Interstate 95 are blockedin West Palm Beach because of a crash.At least three vehicles were involved just south ofPalm Beach Lakes Boulevard about 10:30 a.m.WPBF 25 News has learned at least one personhad to be extricated.Traffic is backed up past the Palm Beach LakesBoulevard exit as a result.

Man thrown from SUV,killed in Brevard crash

A Cocoa man was killed Saturday evening when hewas thrown from an SUV in a single-vehicle crash.

Dalton Cook, 26, was a passenger in a 2000Toyota SUV driven by 28-year-old James Walker,also of Cocoa.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Walkerwas driving south on Grissom Parkway at about 6p.m. when he failed to negotiate a curve. He over-corrected, sending the vehicle into the northboundlane. The SUV overturned as Walker tried to returnto the southbound lane.

January 11, 2013

Investigators said a man was killed when a car ranoff the Florida's Turnpike in Pompano Beach andflipped into a ditch next to a landfill.

State troopers said an employee at Monarch HillLandfill discovered the grisly scene at about 8:30a.m. and called 911.

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triangle-shaped jets screamingacross the sky between noonand 1 p.m. local time. "We sawthe war planes circling. Theywere targeting the camps usedby the Islamists. They only hittheir bases. They didn't shootat the population," he said.

But the intervention has comewith a cost to civilians. In thecity of Konna, the first to bebombed, 11 Malians werekilled, Mali presidentialspokesman Ousmane Sy said.The town's mayor, SoryDiakite, said the dead includedthree children who threw them-selves into a river anddrowned while trying to avoidthe falling bombs.

In addition to Gao and Konna, other targetshave included Douentza, Lere and, lateSunday, the small locality of AgharousKayoune, as well as Alatona, a rice growingregion on the strategic route to the militarycamp of Diabaly, residents and officials said.

Residents are streaming out of the towns thathave been hit. In Lere, people were headingacross the nearby border to Mauritania, addingto the hundreds of thousands of refugeesalready displaced by the crisis in Mali.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius con-firmed Sunday that the United States is provid-ing communications and transport assistance.Over the weekend, a U.S. official confirmedthat America will be sending drones. Britainhas dispatched two, C17 aircrafts to France tohelp Mali's allies transport troops. Four nationsin West Africa have pledged to send hundredsof soldiers, including 500 each from Niger,Burkina Faso and Senegal, as well as fromNigeria.

Additionally, Fabius said Denmark and otherEuropean countries are also helping, accordingto an interview with RTL radio. On Monday, theUnited Nations Security Council will meet todiscuss the crisis in Mali, said Brieuc Pont, aspokesman for the French U.N. Mission said.

French and Malian officials say the lightningoffensive has halted the rebels' advance. "TheIslamist offensive has been stopped," Fabiussaid. "Blocking the terrorists ... we've done it."

However, the rebels still control the northernhalf of Mali, representing the largest areaunder the grip of al-Qaida and its allies in theworld.

The region is larger than Afghanistan, andthroughout it, the bearded and turbaned fight-ers have imposed their unyielding form ofIslam. Music is banned, as are cigarettes,tobacco and alcohol. Women are regularlyflogged in public for offenses ranging from notcovering their ankles to wearing perfume ormake-up.

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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- French fighter jetsbombed rebel targets in a major city in Mali'snorth Sunday, pounding the airport as well astraining camps, warehouses and buildingsused by the al-Qaida-linked Islamists control-ling the area, officials and residents said.

The three-day-old French-led effort to takeback Mali's north from the extremists beganwith airstrikes by combat helicopters in thesmall town of Konna. It has grown to a coordi-nated attack by state-of-the-art fighter jetswhich have bombarded at least five towns, ofwhich Gao, which was attacked Sunday after-noon, is the largest.

More than 400 French troops have beendeployed to the country in the all-out effort towin back the territory from the well-armedrebels, who seized control of an area largerthan France nine months ago. What began asa French offensive has now grown to includeseven other countries, including logistical sup-port from the U.S. and Europe. The UnitedStates is providing communications and trans-port help, while Britain is sending C17 aircraftsto help Mali's allies transport troops to thefrontlines.

French President Francois Hollande authorizedthe intervention after it became clear the swiftlyadvancing rebels could break Mali's militarydefenses in Mopti, the first town on the govern-ment-controlled side, located in the center ofthis African country. The move catapulted theworld into a fight that diplomats had earlier saidwould not take place until at least September.

"French fighter jets have identified anddestroyed this Sunday, Jan. 13, numerous tar-gets in northern Mali near Gao, in particulartraining camps, infrastructure and logisticaldepots which served as bases for terroristgroups," the French defense ministry said in astatement.

French officials have acknowledged that therebels are better armed than they expected,and one of the first fatalities was a 41-year-oldFrench pilot, whose helicopter was downed byrebel fire near the town of Konna.

The Islamists, including three separate rebelgroups, all of which have either direct or indi-rect ties to al-Qaida, are armed with weaponsstolen from the abandoned arsenal of ex-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. They arealso in possession of the weapons left behindby Mali's army, which abandoned the north inthe face of the rebel advance last April. Thefighters managed to seize the territory in thenorth after a military coup led to political turmoilin the once-stable nation of 15.8 million lastMarch.

A French presidential aide who was not author-ized to be publicly named said that the insur-gents are "well-equipped, well-armed and well-trained," and are using high-end equipment."They obtained from Libya modern, sophisticat-ed equipment, much stronger and more effi-cient than we had imagined," he said.

One of the commanders controlling Gao con-firmed that the French had flattened a buildingat the northern entrance to the town used byhis fighters as a checkpoint and that three ofhis men died, crushed under the structure'sfalling roof. Oumar Ould Hamaha further con-firmed that fighter jets had hit training campsand depots.

He egged on the French, calling them cowardsand saying that their attack has only height-ened the rebels' desire for jihad. "Our jihadistsare not a bunch of sheep waiting to be slaugh-tered inside a closed pen," said Hamaha."Listen closely to me. Our elements are con-stantly on the move. What they hit is a bunchof cement. France is going to reap the worstconsequences possible from this. Now noFrench person can feel safe anywhere in theworld. Every French national is a target."

Hamaha said he and his fighters drove to aspot around 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) outside thecity to try to lure the jets away from the popula-tion center and into a direct confrontation. Heclaims the jets flying at an altitude of 13,000meters made a U-turn after seeing the anti-air-craft missiles and weaponry mounted on therebel trucks.

In Gao, Abderahmane Dicko, a public schoolteacher, said he and his neighbors heard the

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N O T P A S S W E A P O N S B A N$16.8 million through its politicalaction committee and nearly $7.5million through its affiliated Institutefor Legislative Action. Separately,the NRA spent some $4.4 millionthrough July 1 to lobby Congress.Keene insists the group representsits members and not just the gunmanufacturers, though he said theNRA would like industry to contributemore money to the association.

"We know what works and whatdoesn't work. And we're not willing tocompromise on people's rights whenthere is no evidence that doing so isgoing to accomplish the purpose,"Keene said.

The NRA, instead, is pushing for measures thatwould keep guns out of the hands of the men-tally ill, until a person gets better. "If they arecured, there ought to be a way out of it," Keenesaid.

Currently, a person is banned from buying agun from a licensed dealer if the person is afugitive, a felon, convicted of substance abuse,convicted of domestic violence, living in theU.S. illegally or someone who "has been adjudi-cated as a mental defective or has been com-mitted to any mental institution."

States, however, are inconsistent in providinginformation about mentally ill residents to thefederal government for background checks.And, the Brady Campaign to Prevent GunViolence said some 40 percent of gun saleshappen with no background checks, such as atgun shows and by private sellers over theInternet or through classified ads.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thepowerful gun lobby is gaugingenough support in Congress toblock a law that would banassault weapons, despitepromises from the White Houseand senior lawmakers to makesuch a measure a reality.

Senators plan to introduce abill that would ban assaultweapons and limit the size ofammunition magazines, like theone used in the Decembershooting massacre that killed27 people, most of them chil-dren, in Newtown, Conn.Democratic Sen. DianneFeinstein of California haspromised to push for a renewal of expired legis-lation.

The National Rifle Association has so far pre-vented passage of another assault weaponsban like the one that expired in 2004. But somelawmakers say the Newtown tragedy has trans-formed the country, and Americans are readyfor stricter gun laws. President Barack Obamahas made gun control a top priority. And onTuesday Vice President Joe Biden is expectedto give Obama a comprehensive package ofrecommendations for curbing gun violence.

Still, the NRA has faith that Congress wouldprevent a new weapons ban.

"When a president takes all the power of hisoffice, if he's willing to expend political capital,you don't want to make predictions. You don'twant to bet your house on the outcome. But Iwould say that the likelihood is that they are not

going to be able to get an assault weapons banthrough this Congress," NRA president DavidKeene told CNN's "State of the Union."

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., responded with aflat out "no" when asked on CBS' "Face theNation" whether Congress would pass a ban onassault weapons.

Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, alifelong member of the NRA has said everythingshould be on the table to prevent anothertragedy like Newtown. But he assured gun own-ers he would fight for gun rights at the sametime. "I would tell all of my friends in NRA, I willwork extremely hard and I will guarantee youthere will not be an encroachment on yourSecond Amendment rights," Manchin said onABC's "This Week."

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ernor's thinking is." Perry, who flamed out as apresidential candidate but remains popular inTexas, says he'll reveal this summer if he will seekanother term.

Some have speculated that Bush could challengePerry for governor - and even if he doesn't, whatPerry decides will trigger political dominos falling.

Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson plans to runfor lieutenant governor next year, creating a vacan-cy in his office. But Attorney General Greg Abbott,a Republican, may himself run for governor in2014, meaning his post could be open too.

Bush suggested he'd be willing to wait his turnpolitically rather than immediately seeking top posi-tions coveted by others in the state GOP.

"We've said that we want to be team players in theparty, providing a younger, fresher vision for ourvalues," he said in the interview Friday.

Bush speaks Spanish, and his mother Columba isfrom Mexico. Conservatives view George P. Bushon the ballot as a way to solidify support among

B u s hHispanics.

A Democrat has not won statewide office in Texassince 1994, but Hispanics tend to vote overwhelm-ingly Democratic and accounted for two-thirds ofTexas' population growth over the last decade.Bush noted: "We'll be majority Hispanic in sixyears."

"I don't necessarily agree with the idea that havinga candidate of Hispanic origin, or someone whocan speak Spanish, can automatically obtain thesevotes," Bush said of Hispanics. "Having said that,it's important tactically to have candidates thatunderstand issues of the community."

Bush's mother has said that one of the reasonsshe and Jeb Bush left Texas for Florida in the1970s was because she felt like she had experi-enced racism here. But George P. Bush said, "theway I view it, rather than an issue of discomfort, iseconomic opportunity."

"This has been, at least for our generation, the bestplace to be economically," he said of Texas and itsrecord of strong job creation.

He said he didn't think there was more intolerancetoward Hispanics in Texas.

"Obviously, I think that issue exists wherever yougo," he said. "I don't think it's just unique here."

Bush said of trying to stand out among his famouspolitical family, "It's always been the thing of mygrandmother to say, `Go out and make a name foryourself' and that's something that I've followed."

"But who better to ask for advice on politics thantwo former presidents and a former governor?" hesaid. "They're not involved in the day-to-day opera-tions. They're not involved in formulating my ideolo-

gy. It's more of an informal advice."

Bush said his grandfather inspired him to join themilitary, and he was deployed to Afghanistan as anintelligence officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Hesaid that before enlisting, he knew politics was inhis blood but felt he was too inexperienced to runfor office.

It wasn't until the last few months, however, that "Ifelt it was time for my generation to step forward instate politics," Bush said.

Bush now spends his time crisscrossing Texas andthe country, raising money and meeting with sup-porters. He was in Austin on Monday and posed forpictures outside the state Capitol before disappear-ing into meetings with legislators.

Someone he didn't see, however, was Perry. Thegovernor said Bush's seeking elected office is agood thing for Texas and the Republican Party, andthat he would like to speak to him about it adding:"He knows my phone number."

But then, Bush has his uncle to turn to for Texasgubernatorial perspective.

"It's much like starting a business," Bush said, "andhaving people who have been there and done itand run statewide, it's definitely been helpful."

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RENO, Nev. (AP) -- The Bureau ofLand Management can resume its roundupof dozens of wild mustangs in northernNevada, but wranglers must limit their useof electric cattle prods and take other stepsto ensure the animals are treated humane-ly, a federal judge said Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Miranda Du's for-mal order lifted an injunction she issuedlast week blocking the roundup of 50 hors-es near the Idaho-Nevada line.

Although disappointed that theroundup was set to resume Friday, horseprotection advocates were pleased thatDu's order outlined specific conduct forthe BLM.

"The judge has begun what the BLMhas failed to do, and that is to establishhumane standards for roundups," saidDeniz Bolbol, spokeswoman for theAmerican Wild Horse Preservation Campaign.

The judge prohibited the routine use of "hotshot/electric prod treatments" to expedite movement ofhorses through gathering and loading chutes, allowingtheir use only "as necessary to ensure the safety and secu-rity of the horses."

Also, BLM contract helicopter pilots who chase thehorses toward the gathering traps must make sure thatslower young foals aren't separated from the herd. Andthe judge specifically forbade the agency from drivinghorses into barbed-wire fences, as they did with severalearlier in the roundup at the Owyhee complex about 90miles northwest of Elko.

Laura Leigh, a photographer and director of WildHorse Education who has been battling BLM over aseries of roundups for years, captured that incident onvideo.

It was among the evidence she submitted in obtain-ing last week's emergency injunction, along with footageof wranglers repeatedly shocking horses in a loadingchute on Nov. 30.

She hailed the ruling as a significant victory.

"Three years of running this grueling marathon fromrange to courtroom to gain an honest conversation aboutthe inhumane handling of an American treasure and wenow have the very first specific language toward actuallygaining the first humane care standard," Leigh said in anemail to The Associated Press late Thursday.

During a hearing in her Las Vegas courtroom earlierThursday, Du said she intended to grant the government'srequest to lift the injunction because opponents had failedto prove the agency lacked authority to remove the mus-tangs from the high desert.

But she also indicated she was inclined to include

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L O N G E R T H R E A T T O E A R T HWASHINGTON (AP) -- Upon further review, a bigscary-sounding asteroid is no longer even aremote threat to smash into Earth in about 20years, NASA says.

Astronomers got a much better look at the aster-oid when it whizzed by Earth on Wednesday froma relative safe 9 million miles away. They recal-culated the space rock's trajectory and deter-mined it wasn't on a path to hit Earth on April 13,2036 as once feared possible.

At more than 1,060 feet wide, the rock calledApophis could do significant damage to a localarea if it hit and perhaps even cause a tsunami.But it was not large enough to trigger worldwideextinctions. One prominent theory that explainsthe extinctions of dinosaurs and other species 65million years ago says a six-mile-wide meteoritehit Earth and spewed vast amounts of dust intothe air, cooling and darkening the planet.

About nine years ago, when astronomers firstsaw Apophis (uh-PAH'-fihs), they thought therewas a 2.7 percent chance that it would smackinto our planet. Later, they lowered the chancesto an even more unlikely 1 in 250,000.

Now it's never mind.

"Certainly 2036 is ruled out," said DonaldYeomans, manager of NASA's Near Earth ObjectProgram. "It's why we track them so we can beassured that they won't get dangerously close."

Yeomans said now the asteroid, named after anevil Egyptian mythical serpent, won't get closer

than 19,400 miles. That's still the closest approachasteroid watchers have seen for a rock this large.And when astronomers got a closer look theynoticed it was about 180 feet larger than theythought, but not a threat.

Asteroids circle the sun as leftovers of failedattempts to form planets billions of years ago.When asteroids enter Earth's atmosphere, theybecome meteors and when they hit the groundthey are meteorites.

This is the second time in as many months theasteroid watchers have had good news for Earth.Last month, astronomers got a closer look at asmaller asteroid that they had previously calculatedhad a 1 in 500 chance of hitting Earth, this time in2040. And they decided the 460-foot asteroid wasno longer a threat.

If you still want to see a space rock come cosmi-cally close to Earth, there's always next month.

On Feb. 15, a small asteroid, only 130-feet wide,will come close to Earth, about 17,000 miles abovethe equator. That's so close it will come betweenour planet and some of the more distant satellitesthat circle the globe. But it will miss Earth.

"This will be the closest passage of an object thissize," Yeomans said.

That asteroid, called 2012 DA14, should be visiblewith smaller telescopes and binoculars, but mostlyin Eastern Europe, Asia and Australia, he said

language in the order addressing con-cerns about the allegations of abuse,including repeated shocking of mus-tangs and running animals to the pointof exhaustion.

"If I were to allow the gather to con-tinue, I would want to ensure the horseswere gathered in a humane way, as theBLM is required to do by statute," shetold Justice Department lawyer ErikPetersen, referring to the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burros Act of 1971.

BLM argues the herd in theOwyhee Horse Management Area is toolarge to be sustained given lingeringdrought. The agency has warned thatsome of the animals could die if theyaren't removed before spring.

Wild horse protection advocatescountered by accusing the agency of

shamefully exaggerating the threat to the animals in anarea.

"I think it is fiction, your honor," said GordonCowan, a Reno lawyer for Leigh. "There's really no emer-gency out there. There's no proof of stress on the range."

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The J. Paul Getty Museum saidThursday it plans to return to Sicily a terra-cotta headdepicting the Greek god Hades after determining it wasclandestinely excavated from an archaeological site inthe 1970s.

The museum took the initiative to investigate the piece'sorigins after seeing fragments in a publication that couldjoin to the head, which dates to about 300 or 400 B.C.,according to Timothy Potts, the museum's director.

The Getty acquired the piece in 1985, and Potts said it'sbelieved it was taken from the Morgantina ArchaeologicalPark in Italy in the 1970s.

The original location of the head was the site of thesanctuary of Demeter, the Greek goddess of the harvest,whose daughter Persephone was married to Hades.

The Getty purchased the piece from New York collectorMaurice Tempelsman. It is among more than 40 piecesthe museum has returned to Greece and Italy in recentyears.

The terra-cotta body of Hades is undergoing an exten-sive restoration at the Museo Archeologico in the Italiancity of Aidone.

The head will be on view at the Getty Villa from April 3 toAug. 19. It then travels to the Cleveland Museum of Artfor display from fall until January 2014 before appearingin February at the Palazzo Ajutamicristo in Palermo, Italy.

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