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GM exits bankruptcy (Reuters)

Reuters – A new General Motors emerged from bankruptcy protection on Friday — far more quickly than most industry watchers had expected — as a leaner automaker pledging to win back American consumers and pay back taxpayers.

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Mets trade OF Church to Braves for OF Francoeur (AP)

AP – The free-falling Mets finally made a move, trading Ryan Church to the Atlanta Braves for Jeff Francoeur and cash on Friday in a swap of outfielders who had fallen out of favor with their teams. The rare deal between NL East rivals came with both teams below .500.

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Police: Couple charged with having sex in drug car (AP)

AP – The car was a-rockin’, so the law went a-knockin’. Bexar County sheriff’s deputies drawn by the actions of an amorous couple in a parked car allegedly found more than amour. Deputy Ino Badillo told the San Antonio Express-news that they also found enough equipment and chemicals in the car to start a methamphetamine lab.

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Police: Couple charged with having sex in drug car
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Comic Artie Lange charged with DUI in NJ (AP)

AP – Comedian and radio personality Artie Lange has been charged with driving under the influence of an intoxicant and careless driving after a minor traffic accident in central New Jersey.

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Dispute over flag protest erupts in Wisc. village (AP)

AP – An American flag flown upside down as a protest in a northern Wisconsin village was seized by police before a Fourth of July parade and the businessman who flew it ¬ó an Iraq war veteran ¬ó claims the officers trespassed and stole his property. A day after the parade, police returned the flag and the man’s protest ¬ó over a liquor license ¬ó continued.

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Dispute over flag protest erupts in Wisc. village
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Prosecutors: Jailed evangelist ‘married’ girls (AP)

AP – Jailed evangelist Tony Alamo “married” the underage girls he allegedly forced into sex, exchanging wedding vows and rings, prosecutors said.

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Muslim women lead protests in restive west China (AP)

AP – The petite Muslim woman with the sky blue head scarf began by complaining that the public washrooms were closed at a crowded mosque on Friday ¬ó the most important day of the week for Islamic worship. When a group gathered around her on the sidewalk, Madina Ahtam then railed against communist rule in China’s far western region of Xinjiang, rocked by ethnic rioting that has killed at least 184 people this week.

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Muslim women lead protests in restive west China
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Pope presses Obama on abortion, stem cells (AP)

AP – Pope Benedict XVI stressed the church’s opposition to abortion and stem cell research in his first meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday, pressing the Vatican’s case with the U.S. leader who is already under fire on those issues from some conservative Catholics and bishops back home

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Chavez attacks US plan to solve Honduras coup (AP)

AP – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced a U.S.-backed effort to ease Honduras’ coup crisis on Friday as a second day of negotiations ended without a deal between rival contenders for the presidency.

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House Dems want to tax the rich for health care (AP)

AP – Key House Democrats decided Friday to raise taxes on the wealthy to help pay for health care legislation, capping an up-and-down week for President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.

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