Smithsonian budget restores most of sequester cuts

The Smithsonian Institution announced an $805 million federal appropriation for fiscal year 2014, a $30 million increase over its 2013 sequester-addled budget. The appropriation, part of the $1.1 trillion spending bill signed Friday by President Obama, is less than the administration requested in April and slightly less than in years past, but it represents a partial restoration of the roughly $41 million in cuts triggered by sequestration last year. And it takes away the threat of $65 million m...