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    New York man accused of hiding in woman's couch (AP)
    AP - A New York man is accused of cutting a hole in a woman's couch and hiding in the carved-out space until she came home. Newburgh police said the woman sat on the couch Wednesday evening and felt a bump in the cushions move. -- read full article
    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:51:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Naomi Campbell gets 200 hours for 'air rage' (AP)

    British model Naomi Campbell, centre with head down, arrives at Uxbridge Magistrates Court in London, Friday, June 20, 2008. The sharp-tongued model is accused of assaulting two officers after she was removed from a flight bound from Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5 to Los Angeles. She stands accused of six different offenses stemming from the incident, which happened after her luggage was removed from the British Airways flight. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - Temperamental model Naomi Campbell was sentenced to 200 hours of community service Friday after pleading guilty to assaulting two police officers after an "air rage" incident at Heathrow Airport.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:22:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Calif officials: Bureaucracy failed abused boy, 5 (AP)

    This undated photo provided by the Los Angeles Police Department shows Starkeisha Brown suspected of child abuse on Friday June 13,2008. Brown, 24, and Krystal Mathews, 21,  were charged with one count each of torture, child abuse, corporal injury to a child, dissuading a witness, and two counts each of conspiracy. A district attorney's office statement identified Matthews as the live-in girlfriend of Brown.  (AP Photo/Los Angeles Police Dept.)AP - The little boy's body was a study in pain. He was covered in cigarette burns, including to his genitals. He couldn't fully open his hand because it had been burned on a stove. His tooth was broken with a nerve exposed. And he had been made to sit in his own urine and feces, authorities say.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:36:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Probe halts rebuilding of Iraqi city (AP)

    Map locates Hit, Iraq, where U.S.-funded reconstruction was suspended due to a corruption probe; 1c x 2 inches; 46.5 mm x 50.8 mmAP - U.S.-funded reconstruction in a one-time Sunni insurgent stronghold has been suspended because of a corruption probe, including allegations that the mayor and police chief were involved in a multimillion-dollar oil smuggling ring, The Associated Press has learned.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:40:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Obama, Hillary Clinton to campaign together (AP)

    Hillary Clinton and her former Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama are seen here before a debate in Los Angeles in January 2008. Obama aides have announced Clinton will join Obama on the campaign trail June 27.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)AP - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama's campaign announced Friday that he will campaign with former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton next week, a step toward unifying a fractured Democratic Party after a bruising primary fight.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:43:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Reports: Teen girls made pact to get pregnant (AP)

    A local television reporter conducts a noon hour stand-up report outside Gloucester High School, where school officials say a teenage pregnancy pact between female students occurred during this past school year,  in Gloucester, Mass., Friday afternoon, June 20, 2008. The pact made by a group of teens to get pregnant and raise their babies together is at least partly behind a sudden spike in pregnancies, according to official sources. Gloucester schools are currently on summer break. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - A pact made by a group of teens to get pregnant and raise their babies together is at least partly behind a sudden spike in pregnancies at Gloucester High School, school officials said.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:14:35 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    House easily passes compromise surveillance law (AP)

    In this March 13, 2008 file photo, President Bush makes a statement on FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) legislation on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. The House prepared Friday to vote on a measure that effectively protects telecommunication companies from civil lawsuits but also sets out steps for investigating the wiretapping program to determine its scope and legality. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, file)AP - The House Friday easily approved a compromise bill setting new electronic surveillance rules that effectively shield telecommunications companies from lawsuits arising from the government's terrorism-era warrantless eavesdropping on phone and computer lines in this country.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:31:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    APNewsBreak: US asks to rewrite detainee evidence (AP)

    Attorney David Remes, who represents several Guantanamo detainees, is interviewed in his office in Washington, Friday, June 20, 2008.  (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)AP - The Bush administration wants to rewrite the official evidence against Guantanamo Bay detainees, allowing it to shore up its cases before they come under scrutiny by civilian judges for the first time.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:27:50 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Ex-press secretary decries 'secretive' White House (AP)

    Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is sworn in to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, June 20, 2008, before the House Judiciary Committee hearing to investigate Vice President Cheney's precise role in the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA identity case. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP - Former presidential spokesman Scott McClellan on Friday said President Bush has lost the public's trust by failing to open up about his administration's mistakes and backtracking on a promise to tell all about the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:31:41 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Suicide attack on US convoy in Afghanistan kills 12 (AFP)

    Afghan soldiers patrol the Arghandab district of Kandahar on June 18. A suicide attack on a military convoy has killed a US-led soldier and 11 Afghans in southern Afghanistan, a day after a huge operation to drive Taliban rebels from a key stronghold.(AFP/File/Hamed Zalmy)AFP - A suicide attack on a military convoy killed a US-led soldier and 11 Afghans in southern Afghanistan Friday, a day after a huge operation to drive Taliban rebels from a key stronghold.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:40:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    EU gives Ireland more treaty time but Czechs block progress (AFP)

    EU leaders have agreed to postpone till October a decision on the bloc's Lisbon Treaty, rejected by Irish voters and further threatened by a eurosceptic Czech president, according to a draft deal.(AFP iactive)AFP - EU leaders have agreed to postpone till October a decision on the bloc's Lisbon Treaty, rejected by Irish voters and further threatened by a eurosceptic Czech president, according to a draft deal Friday.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:43:23 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Suicide blast kills 10 Afghan civilians: police (Reuters)

    Map locating the Arghandab district, where NATO and Afghan forces launched an operation against Taliban militants. A suicide attack on a military convoy has killed a US-led soldier and 11 Afghans in southern Afghanistan, a day after a huge operation to drive Taliban rebels from a key stronghold.(AFP Graphic)Reuters - A suicide attack on a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan on Friday killed 10 civilians and wounded some NATO soldiers, police and a NATO spokesman said.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:19:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    EU to set October review of treaty impasse: draft (Reuters)

    Czech Republic's Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek attends a news conference on the first day of a EU summit at the European Council headquarters in Brussels June 20, 2008. (Thierry Roge/Reuters)Reuters - European Union leaders were set to call on Friday for a review in October of the impasse over Ireland's referendum rejection of the EU reform treaty, a draft final summit statement obtained by Reuters showed.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:00:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Judge urged to drop Guantanamo charge (Reuters)

    Omar Khadr is seen in this undated family portrait. (Handout/Reuters)Reuters - A military defense lawyer urged a Guantanamo judge to help restore America's reputation by dropping attempted murder charges against an Afghan prisoner who was subjected to 14 consecutive days of sleep deprivation.


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    Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:52:25 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
    Spy bill to shield phone companies from lawsuits (Reuters)

    A telephone is seen in an undated file photo. (Catherine Benson/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. telephone companies that took part in President George W. Bush's warrantless domestic spying program could be shielded from billions of dollars in lawsuits under a electronic spy bill finalized on Thursday by congressional and White House negotiators.


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    Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:26:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: Top Stories
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