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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The San Diego City Council unanimously approved a resolution today calling on the Defense Department to support the Miramar Air Show this fall.

A recent news item out of Minnesota caught our eye: "Bulletproof Whiteboards Unveiled at Rocori Schools."

On the heels of reports last week about a rush of Mexican asylum seekers at San Diego border crossings, lawmakers in Washington are looking for answers.

The Pentagon and its growing budget is on the supercommittee's radar as it looks to reduce the federal deficit by $1.2 trillion. At half the federal government's budget, it's not hard to see why, so which cuts might bleed the least?

Texas stands to gain four new seats in the U.S. House of Representatives if its legislative maps are approved by a federal court. The Justice Department has reservations about the redistricting plan, however, in part because it doesn't create a single new district that's majority Latino.

In his first full week on the job, FBI Director Jim Comey expressed "intense concern" that sequester cuts could result in two weeks of furlough days for agents and the loss of 3,000 positions. He says it's a big national security worry.

Under the Assembly bill, domestic workers would be paid overtime if they worked more than nine hours in a day of 45 hours in a week, but the measure would have to be renewed in 2017.

When it comes to scouting out a new bakery, pizzeria or noodle shop, there are few review sites that compare to Yelp. In turn, the reviews left on sites like Yelp can have a big effect on many restaurants' bottom lines.

The improved outlook comes at a painful cost: nearly 700,000 state and local government jobs lost, and significant cuts to education and other programs. And since a quarter of states' budgets come from federal funding, more problems are on the way. But the hope is that the days of crippling budget deficits are at an end.

Assemblyman Richard Bloom, D-Santa Monica, said he was driven to author the bill by allegations of animal abuse made in the documentary "Blackfish.'' SeaWorld executives have adamantly denied animal abuse allegations.