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Jul 2, 2010

'Idol' summer tour lacks star performer | detnews.com | The Detroit News

Pretty much everyone agrees that it was an off year for "American Idol." And so it goes with the "American Idols Live!" summer tour, which kicked off at the Palace of Auburn Hills on Thursday and reminded fans that yep, it was an off year for "American Idol." - 07/02/2010

Duplass brothers wade into mainstream film with 'Cyrus' From The Detroit News

Directors Mark Duplass, left, and brother Jay are finally living large. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

2 U.S. soldiers die in Iraq

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July 2, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAGHDAD — The U.S. military says two American soldiers have died in Iraq.
A military statement released on Friday says the soldiers died in separate incidents but not in combat.It says the deaths are under investigation and provided no details. The names of the deceased soldiers are being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
The deaths raise to 4,411 the number of U.S. military personnel who have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003. That’s according to an Associated Press count.

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Mexico nabs gang leader in US consulate killing

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July 2, 2010

ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO CITY — A drug gang leader says he ordered the killing of a U.S. consulate worker because she gave visas to a rival gang in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, federal police said Friday.
Jesus Ernesto Chavez, whose arrest was announced on Friday, leads a band of hit men for a street gang tied to the Juarez cartel, said Ramon Pequeno, the head of anti-narcotics for the Federal Police.Pequeno said Chavez ordered the March 13 attack that killed U.S. consulate employee Lesley Enriquez and her husband as they drove in the violent border city, and he said Chavez told police that Enriquez was targeted because she gave visas to a rival gang.
A U.S. Embassy official said there would no immediate comment on the allegation.
Enriquez, who was four months pregnant, and her husband, Arthur H. Redelfs, were killed when gunmen opened fire on their sport utility vehicle after they left a birthday party. Their 7-month-old daughter was found wailing in the back of the vehicle.
Jorge Alberto Salcido, the husband of a Mexican employee of the consulate, also was killed by gunmen after leaving the same event in a separate vehicle.
Chavez told police that gunmen opened fire on Salcido because the two cars were the same color and the hit men didn’t know which one Enriquez was in, Pequeno said.
Pequeno said Chavez belongs to Barrio Azteca, a gang that works for the Juarez cartel on both sides of the border.
The Juarez cartel’s turf war against the Sinaloa cartel has made Ciudad Juarez one of the deadliest cities in the world. More than 2,600 people were killed last year in the city of 1.3 million people across the border from El Paso, Texas.
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Blagojevich's $400,000 shopping spree :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Gov. Blagojevich

The Blagojevich household spent more on fine clothing than on their mortgage, childcare, travel or private schools in the years that Blagojevich served as governor, according to trial testimony.
(AP)

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Strictly World Cup Dancing, by Arlene Phillips - Telegraph

Celebration: Four players line up on the touchline. Then put left arm out, right arm out, left arm in, right arm in, and rotate. Arlene: This is the funniest thing I've ever seen. First the "swim", then the fist pull. I would have got the whole crowd doing it. Judge's mark: 9/10

Picture: AP

Holland 2 Brazil 1: match report - Telegraph

Brazil lose their discipline and ability to defend as Dutch fight back to reach World Cup semi-finals.

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BaGhana BaGhana: South Africans and foreign nationals wave the Ghana flag in Yeoville, outside Johannesburg, Photo: AP

The president has just given his first speech on immigration since taking office. Has anything changed?

posted on July 1, 2010, at 3:25 PM

Best Opinion: L.A. Times, National Review, Firedoglake

In his first major speech on immigration — a policy priority that has seemingly come "out of nowhere" in the past week — President Obama called for comprehensive reform legislation, including a pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants. "The question now is, do we have the courage and political will to pass a bill through Congress and finally get it done," the president said, speaking at American University on Thursday. He decried Arizona's yet-to-be-enacted immigration law as "ill-conceived," and called for "one clear national standard." Clearly, this "puts Republicans in a tough spot," say Anna Gorman and Peter Nicholas in the Los Angeles Times. They really can't "afford to write off a Latino community" ahead of the November midterms. But the president didn't offer any specifics, says Mark Krikorian at National Review. "The speech was just one more effort at stringing the open-borders folks along while trying to blame the Republicans for not helping the Democrats pass an amnesty." Below, highlights from Obama's address:

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A new airline ground handling company that is expected to lead to more international flights to the Turks and Caicos Islands is being questioned by competitors for its partnership with the TCI Airports Authority. Servisair PLS formed a joint venture ...