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Friday, June 18, 2010 (2010x120)

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2010/06/18 Headlines: BP CEO Grilled During House Testimony; Protester Removed After Calling Hayward "Criminal"; GOP Rep. Calls $20B Compensation Fund "Shakedown"; Clinton: Obama Admin to Sue Arizona over Anti-Immigrant Law; Unemployment Measure Stalls in Senate as Jobless Claims Rise; Group: Senate Climate Bill Holds Billions in Tax Breaks for Nuclear Industry; Ex-Chicago Police Commander Denies Overseeing Torture of African Americans at Trial; Palestinians, Human Rights Groups Call for Full Repeal of Gaza Blockade; Flotilla Survivors Speak Out at New York Event; German Jewish Group to Send Two Aid Ships to Gaza; Red Cross: Kyrgyz Violence Is "Immense Crisis"; Rwandan Court Frees Jailed American Lawyer Peter Erlinder; Panel Calls for US-Funded $300M Cleanup of Agent Orange in Vietnam; Number of Homeless US Families Grows to 170,000; Utah Prisoner Executed by Firing Squad; Supreme Court: Employers Can Read Employees' Text Messages; Supreme Court Invalidates over 500 NLRB Decisions; Allied Media Conference Opens Ahead of US Social Forum in Detroit