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The final federal budget proposal of the Bush Administration has been submitted to Congress. ABC's Martha Raddatz (embargoed link) found requests for major spending increases for the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security; major cuts for Medicare and Medicaid; and annual borrowing of $407bn, which "does not include full funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan"…transportation in China is slowly being restored in time for New Year. The city of Chenzhou, population 4m, is still "virtually cut off," NBC's Mark Mullen found when he visited, with no electricity, no running water and no heat…Google has challenged Microsoft's $45bn takeover bid for Yahoo! on antitrust grounds, CBS' Anthony Mason reported…the Nature Conservancy, an environmental activist group, is worried that recreation in the National Parks and other outdoor areas is in decline. NBC's Anne Thompson covered research on the lack of hiking, camping and fishing--and very scenic were the visuals she chose to illustrate the trend, too. If outdoor recreation were as popular now as it was 20 years ago, there would be 80m more park visits each year.
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