President Obama is expected to unveil his FY 2013 budget today, and Republicans are already criticizing it as too much spending. After rejecting the Arab League's peacekeeping force plan, the Syrian al-Assad regime resumed shelling of the city of Homms on Monday. Chinese Vice-President and likely future President Xi Jinping arrives in Washington today for meetings with President Obama and trade officials. Announced European Union job cuts by multinational companies could lead to the beginning of an official descent into recession in 2012. Google could be testing an IP video service in Kansas City soon as part of its expansion of the Google Fiber project there.