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American student Amanda Knox greets her parents during an appeal hearing in Perugia, Italy, on Monday, June 27, 2011. Knox and her Italian boyfriend were convicted in 2009 of sexual assault and murder in the 2007 death of her British roommate. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)
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International Criminal Court Presiding Judge Sanji Mmasenono Monageng of Botswana is seen in the courtroom in The Hague on Monday, June 27, 2011, as the court issued arrest warrants for Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi, his son and his intelligence chief for crimes against humanity in the early days of their struggle to cling to power. (AP Photo/Robert Vos, Pool)
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**FILE** A frame grab of the PBS website from May 31, 2011, is shown, as PBS officials confirmed on its official Twitter account that the website had been hacked. Lulz Security has stolen mountains of personal data in about a dozen different hacks, embarrassing law enforcement on both sides of the Atlantic. (Associated Press)
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An Idaho couple's half-acre of land is at the center of a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency. Mike and Chantell Sackett were told in 2007 by the EPA that they couldn't develop their property because it was a federally designated wetland. (Pacific Legal Foundation photograph)
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The Supreme Court heard the Sacketts' legal petition last week and could decide as early as Monday on whether the justices will take up their case. (Pacific Legal Foundation photograph)
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The wreckage of the plane that killed Dr. Stephen Hatch and his wife, Kim, on Friday is seen in Charlevoix, Mich. Austin Hatch, 16, is in critical condition. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley listens to testimony at the Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Monday, June 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart, Pool)
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** FILE ** Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser poses a question during a hearing at the Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Monday, June 6, 2011. (AP Photo/John Hart, Pool)
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Former Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson speaks to the media outside the U.S. Federal Courthouse, in Greenbelt, Md., Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Johnson's wife, Leslie Johnson, intends to plea guilty to charges next week. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Phil Mendelson, chairman of the Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary, said, “The biggest issue here ... has to be the lack of clarity.” (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Prime Minister Hun Sen sought U.N. help in the late 1990s to create the "killing fields" tribunal, though he didn't want a fully international court.
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**FILE** In this photo from June 15, 2011, job seekers stand in line at a job fair in Southfield, Mich. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** This undated file photo released by the Leesburg, (Va.) Police Department shows Yonathan Melaku, 22, of Alexandria, Va., after his May 2011 arrest in Loudoun County, Va., charged with four counts of grand larceny. (AP Photo/Leesburg Police Department, File)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Rep. Alcee L. Hastings, Florida Democrat, denies the sexual harassment claims of a former aide. An ethics probe reportedly has been launched.
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** FILE ** James Arthur Ray (left) and his lawyer, Thomas Kelly, stand in the courtroom of Judge Warren R. Darrow in the Yavapai County Courthouse in Camp Verde, Ariz., on Wednesday, June 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Tom Tingle, Pool)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Former Dior designer John Galliano arrives at a Paris courthouse on Wednesday where he was on trial on charges that he hurled anti-Semitic slurs in a Paris cafe.
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Willard Yoder of Milroy, Ind., has been charged with four counts of child solicitation after showing up in a horse and buggy for what he thought was a tryst with a 12-year-old girl. (AP Photo/Connersville [Ind.] Police Department)
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** FILE ** A courtroom artist's sketch shows a military court trial session on Thursday, May 12, 2011, in Manama, Bahrain, against 21 prominent opposition activists, including several being tried in absentia. The court sentenced eight Shiite activists to life in prison on Wednesday, June 22, 2011, and issued long jail terms for 13 others in the latest blow by authorities waging a crackdown against protesters seeking greater rights in the Gulf kingdom. (AP Photo/Bahrain News Agency, File)
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This undated image taken from the Mexican Attorney General's rewards program website on June 21, 2011, shows the alleged leader of the La Familia cartel, Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas, alias "El Chango,'' or "The Monkey." Mexico's security spokesman said on Tuesday June 21, 2011, that federal police have caught Mendez Vargas, one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords. (AP Photo/PGR)
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton says the arrest of more than 2,400 convicted aliens resulted from "excellent teamwork." (Associated Press)
