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  • Ex-lawyer says he wrote letter demanding $10M (AP)
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:24:34 GMT

     

    Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino, left, is escorted by Chris Francis of the U.S. Attorney's office as he arrives at the federal courthouse to testify in the trial of Karen Cunagin Sypher in Louisville, Ky., Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)AP - Karen Cunagin Sypher's former attorney told jurors at her extortion trial he had sexual relations with the former model before writing a letter to Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino demanding $10 million.


  • US casualties in Afghanistan soar to record highs (AP)
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:18:33 GMT

     

    NATO and US soldiers are seen standing guard in Kabul. Three foreign soldiers were killed in two separate Taliban-style bomb attacks in Afghanistan's volatile south, NATO said Friday.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - In a summer of suffering, America's military death toll in Afghanistan is rising, with back-to-back record months for U.S. losses in the grinding conflict. All signs point to more bloodshed in the months ahead, straining the already shaky international support for the war.


  • Ariz. governor considers changing immigration law (AP)
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:18:13 GMT

     

    Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies, left, bring in a suspect arrested during a crime suppression sweep in Phoenix on Thursday, July 29, 2010. This was Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 17th immigration and crime sweep after hundreds of immigrant rights supporters delayed the effort with a rally at a downtown jail, in opposition to Arizona's new immigration law. A judge put the most controversial elements of the law on hold, but allowed other portions to take effect. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is asking legislators to consider whether they should change the state's immigration law in response to a judge's ruling blocking parts of it.


  • Signs of oil spill recovery entering new phase (AP)
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:13:36 GMT

     

    James Lee Witt, right, listens to BP PLC CEO of Gulf Coast Restoration Organization Bob Dudley as he speaks at a news conference to announce Witt's hiring as an advisor to BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill response in Biloxi, Miss., Friday, July 30, 2010. Witt, the former FEMA director under President Bill Clinton, is expected to advise BP through its long-term response and recovery efforts. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)AP - BP's new boss says it's time for a \"scaleback\" in cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Federal officials say there is no way the crude could reach the East Coast. And fishing areas are starting to reopen.


  • Mother gets life term in Texas starvation case (AP)
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:11:04 GMT

     

    FILE -This July 20, 2009 file photo provided by the Dallas County Sheriff's Office shows Abneris Santiago. Opening statements are scheduled to begin Wednesday, July 28, 2010, in Dallas for Santiago who is accused of starving three of her children kept locked in a hotel bathroom for as long as nine months. The 31-year-old woman's trial begins one day after co-defendant Alfred Santiago received a 99-year prison term for injury to a child and continuous sexual abuse. (AP Photo/Dallas County Sheriff's Office, File)AP - A mother whose three children were found starving after being shut away in a hotel bathroom for as long as nine months has been sentenced to life in prison.


  • NY reps. spar over bill to aid sick 9/11 workers (AP)
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:07:17 GMT

     

    FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2001 file photo, firefighters make their way over the ruins of the World Trade Center through clouds of smoke at ground zero in New York. A bill that would have provided up to $7.4 billion in aid to people sickened by World Trade Center dust fell short in the House on Thursday, July 29, 2010, raising the possibility that the bulk of compensation for the ill will come from a legal settlement hammered out in the federal courts. (AP Photo/Stan Honda, Pool, File)AP - The House's rejection of bill that would have provided up to $7.4 billion in aid to people sickened by World Trade Center dust has opened a sharp rift between two New York congressmen, Republican Peter King and Democrat Anthony Weiner.


  • Imports slow Q2 growth as business spending surges (Reuters)
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:06:04 GMT

     

    Reuters - U.S. economic growth slowed in the second quarter as companies invested heavily in equipment from abroad and the pace of consumer spending eased, raising concerns about the recovery in the rest of 2010.
  • Agency weighs skirting Congress on immigration (AP)
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:55:19 GMT

     

    Felipa Solario pauses as she cries while telling her story of having her husband, an illegal immigrant, taken away by authorities some months ago, while she joined hundreds at a solidarity rally at St. Matthews Church to protest the provisions of the new Arizona immigration law that went into effect Thursday, July 29, 2010 in Phoenix, the day after portions of Arizona's SB1070 went into effect, but after a federal judge struck down some of the law's provisions. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)AP - The Obama administration, unable to push an immigration overhaul through Congress, is considering ways it could go around lawmakers to let undocumented immigrants stay in the United States, according to an agency memo.


  • House investigators recommended Rangel reprimand (AP)
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:51:11 GMT

     

    Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., speaks to the media as he enters his office after going for a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - The panel that charged New York Democrat Charles Rangel with 13 counts of ethical misdeeds recommended he receive a relatively mild rebuke by the full House, one of the investigators said Friday.


  • Floods kill more than 400 in Pakistan's northwest (Reuters)
    Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:49:38 GMT

     

    A boy hangs on to the front of a cargo truck while passing through a flooded road in Risalpur, located in Nowshera District, in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province July 30, 2010. REUTERS/Adrees LatifReuters - Heavy monsoon rains have triggered the worst floods in decades in Pakistan's northwest, killing more than 400 people and forcing thousands from their homes as authorities struggle to reach stranded villagers.


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