News Round-Up

The CBO says that despite many domestic cuts to such programs as neighborhood improvement, the Bush budget would yield a bigger deficit in the long-run due to tax cuts and war costs. Also, as 5 amendments were voted down, credit card firms won as users lost with bankruptcy bill. And with opium producting rising, Afghanistan nears drug-state status. Meanwhile, the U.S. draws jeers for abortion comments at the U.N and relations with war ally Itally chill after U.S. troops killed an Italian secret service agent and wounded an Italian reporter.