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AP - Five-time champion Roger Federer reached his seventh straight Wimbledon final Friday and will face Andy Roddick for a chance at a record 15th Grand Slam title.
Reuters - A U.S. drone aircraft fired missiles on Friday into Pakistan's South Waziristan region, killing 10 militants, officials said, ahead of an expected Pakistani military offensive in the area.
Reuters - The United States and its Western allies are sounding out Arab governments to see if they might ease sanctions on Israel if it stopped building Jewish settlements on Palestinian territory, diplomats said on Friday.
AP - The powerful sedative Diprivan was found in Michael Jackson's home, a law enforcement official said Friday.
AP - Russia said Friday it will allow the United States to ship weapons across its territory to Afghanistan, a long-sought move that bolsters U.S. military operations but potentially gives the Kremlin leverage over critical American supplies.
AP - Sheriff's deputies searched Friday for a serial killer blamed for four deaths over the past six days as terrified residents wondered who might be next.
AFP - A powerful Iranian cleric said on Friday that British embassy local staff arrested for allegedly stoking unrest after the June election will be put on trial, a move that prompted coordinated protests from European governments.
Reuters - Austrian fund manager Sonja Kohn did not receive any kickbacks from Bernard Madoff to steer Bank Medici customer funds to the swindler's investment business, a Medici lawyer said on Friday.
AP - NAWA, Afghanistan U.S. Marines pushed deeper into Taliban areas of southern Afghanistan on Friday, seeking to cut insurgent supply lines and win over local elders on the second day of the biggest U.S. military operation here since the American-led invasion of 2001.
AFP - US Marines are in a "hell of a fight" as they storm into Taliban strongholds during a major assault in Afghanistan, their commanding officer said Friday.
Reuters - A senior Iranian cleric warned on Friday that detained British embassy staff would face trial for their alleged role in post-election unrest, and EU countries summoned Iranian envoys to protest against the detentions.
AP - Honduras' interim leader said he was open to early elections if it resolves an impasse with the world community, as a top diplomat headed to the Central American nation to demand he restore the president ousted by a coup.
A boat carrying aid to pro-Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip was surrounded and boarded by Israeli forces off the coast of the Gaza Strip Tuesday.
McKinney is quoted as saying that the confrontation was "an outrageous violation of international law," and she claimed the boat was on a humanitarian mission and was not in Israeli waters.
Today on his show, Rush Limbaugh gave forth his opinion on the life of Michael Jackson, as it pertains to those presidents who were in power during those periods.
A Florida man was charged with domestic battery after he drenched his wife with a garden hose for smoking inside their home.
With voting steadfastly along party lines, right up until 3 minutes before midnight on June 30th, California failed to pass a budget on Tuesday night. This means, unless there is some sort of miraculous breakthrough, California Treasurer John Chiang will begin issues IOUs Thursday.
Democrat Al Franken won a unanimous ruling from the Minnesota state Supreme Court on Tuesday. The court ruled that Franken should be certified the winner of Minnesota's hotly contested Senate race. Given that, Republican Norm Coleman conceded, ending a nearly eight-month recount and court fight.
A man who gave himself a DIY circumcision using nail clippers was taken to hospital for emergency treatment. .
Harlem, especially the Apollo, is the media's unofficial spot to get Black America's reaction to Michael Jackson 's death.
Forty years to the day after Stonewall - when a police raid of a New York gay club led to riots and launched the modern gay-rights movement - police in Fort Worth, TX, are being accused of repeating the incident.
June 25, 2009 By GINGER THOMPSON and DAVID M. HERSZENHORN President Obama is expected to meet with Congressional leaders of both parties on Thursday to begin laying the political groundwork for sweeping immigration legislation, even though its passage this year is considered very unlikely.
Kentucky State University could open a boarding school aimed at preparing African American males for college as soon as 2010, according to President Mary Sias.
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