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Away. she is expecting more unless congress averts the crisis. >> i think its ridiculous to let budget cutbacks affect air traffic control towers. >> some furloughs undoubtedly would have been necessary. whether it was necessary for faa to concentrate so many of the cuts in the area of air traffic controllers, is an entirely different question. >> reporter: and with the busy summer months ahead, the national air traffic control association warned furloughs could cause delays to double from the w...

Together often. thank you both so much. >> thanks, megyn. >> megyn: were also asking this question today on our website, should the u.s. continue to make big foreign aid payments while domestic programs face these budget cutbacks? you can see it here in this story at foxnews.com and linked on the front of our home page, asking you to weigh in on that. and back we go to washington and the breaking news and republican kentucky senator rand paul. hes now coming up on hour three of the good old-fash...

And veterans. on the important questions going forward. he said he has shown that he has the qualifications to guide the department of defense in this very challenging period when budget cutbacks and other challenges are going to be at the forefront. >> yours was one of the more civil direct questionings of chuck hagel. you talked about veterans issues, prosecuting sec yule assault, classifying them have enough made of them, do the job to defend the country and the like. however, some of your co...

Photo. hes grown a beard and that has become something of a sticking point in court. a judge recently ruled that he be forced to shave it. he says that would violate his muslim religious beliefs. so theyve been arguing over that. the judge said that he can be forced to shave it and now major nadal hasan, the man accused of shooting and killing 13 people, hurting more than two dozen others is in the hospital. he is said to be in good condition, to be released within 48 hours, and the legal proces...

Been building since 2005 and it took the death of a 17-year-old, trayvon martin, to shine a light on it. what we are witnessing here, i think we are witnessing the perfect storm of injustice in america. what we have here is a very poorly written law. we are living in a time when law enforcement is getting slashed to fit state budgets. its not happening in a vacuum. this is what these budget cuts are all about. we have vigilantes out on the streets when we should have more cops on the street. cop...

State lotteryies. >> foredecade, there have been sufficient laws on the books that prohibited on-line gambling. but somehow this creative interpretation at the department of justice will allow on-line gambling into every home. >> justice department officials say there are still federal laws to restrict on-line gambling and that that there has been no policy change in that record, trace. >> trace: but i gather, wendell, that this opinion has supporters as well? >> it does, especially at the state...

Protesters in athens tossing monthly to have cocktails at riot police. one man accidently set another man on fire. this came at the start of a two-day strike ahead of a government vote on another round of budget cutbacks. the plan is for those so-called austerity measures to keep greece out of bankruptcy, something which could effect the entire global economy. police say there were about 70,000 protesters out today. organizers say it was more like twice that our greg palkot in the middle of it a...

Protection to hopefully avoid a scene like this, violent protesters causing chaos in the streets of london. a scene here just last month in a demonstration against budget cutbacks. theres growing concern about the anger over the royal wedding being vented online. this youtube clip features william and kate in a song called "better dead than wed." ♪ youre better dead than wed ♪ >> reporter: this disturbing photo of william and kate with nooses around their necks. was posted by a group called ...

A great deal of support for this. i mean, yes, the support for the idea of protecting civilians in eastern libya, nobody in this country particularly wants to see revenge attacks being wrought by colonel gadhafi on innocent civilians in eastern libya. but there is a lot of reticence in britain about the need for britain to be involved in yet another war in the middle east. theres a lot of concern about whether the country can afford it. were going through great austerity in this country at the m...

Idea of protecting civilians in eastern libya, nobody in this country particularly wants to see revenge attacks being wrought by colonel gadhafi on innocent civilians in eastern libya. but there is a lot of reticence in britain about the need for britain to be involved in yet another war in the middle east. theres a lot of concern about whether the country can afford it. were going through great austerity in this country at the moment. there are budget cutbacks, particularly in the military budg...