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Obama and Democrats muscled through Congress in January. Without higher taxes, Democrats say they won't yield to cuts in benefit programs like Medicare.
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Veteran Tennessee Guard recruiter held in shooting of 2 superiors; wounded had served overseas
• MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Subdued by fellow soldiers and arrested by local police, a Tennessee National Guardsman was likely to face federal charges Friday in the shooting of two of his superiors at an armory north of Memphis.
• The sergeant first class, whose name was not released, had been disciplined before he opened fire with a handgun Thursday at the armory in Millington, Tenn., according to a law enforcement official who had been briefed on the case.
• The official was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
• The wounded -- a major and a sergeant major who had both served overseas -- were expected to be released from a Memphis hospital soon, said Maj. Gen. Max Haston, adjutant general of the Tennessee Guard.
• All three of the men were recruiters, and the shooter has been in the Guard about six or seven years, Haston said.
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Norway rejects US request to destroy Syria's chemical weapons arsenal
• OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Norway has turned down a U.S. request to receive the bulk of Syria's chemical weapons for destruction because it doesn't have the capabilities to complete the task by the deadlines given, the Norwegian foreign minister said Friday.
• Boerge Brende said Norway hadn't been able to identify a port that could receive the weapons and didn't have the capacity to treat some of the waste products resulting from the destruction of the munitions.
• In a webcast news conference, Brende said both the U.S. and Norway agreed there was no point in continuing "the evaluation of Norway as a place for this destruction."
• Brende said the U.S. is looking at other alternatives but didn't give details.
• Norway earlier this week said it was one of the nations that had been asked to take part in the destruction of 50 metric tons of mixed chemicals in the form of mustard gas and some 300-500 metric tons of materials needed to make nerve agents.
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