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SACRAMENTO, July 10 (UPI) -- U.S. officials have asked North Korea to grant "amnesty" to two American journalists jailed there, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday.

WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- Bush administration officials discouraged an investigation into a mass killing in Afghanistan, government officials and human rights workers say.

MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 10 (UPI) -- A prominent U.S. civil rights organization Friday urged Congress to investigate reports of "racial extremists" serving in the military.

KABUL, Afghanistan, July 10 (UPI) -- At least six British soldiers were killed Friday in Helmand Province, bringing the number of U.K. combat deaths in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion to 184.

ACCRA, Ghana, July 10 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama arrived in Ghana with his family Friday evening, welcomed by thousands of people angling for a glimpse of the first black U.S. president.

CHICAGO, July 10 (UPI) -- A family filed a lawsuit Friday seeking damages following revelations that graves were dug up at a historic black cemetery in suburban Chicago.

L'AQUILA, Italy, July 10 (UPI) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized at an international summit in Italy Friday for making an incorrect claim about his chief political rival.

ORLANDO, Fla., July 10 (UPI) -- Colleen Shipman and Billy Oefelein, victims in the kidnapping plot allegedly formed by former U.S. astronaut Lisa Nowak, say they are getting married.

TACOMA, Wash., July 10 (UPI) -- Officials at Fort Lewis, an Army base in Washington state, were trying to determine Friday what killed an officer cadet found dead after a training exercise.

DETROIT, July 10 (UPI) -- The 19-year-old driver of a car struck by a train in Michigan, killing five people, had had his driver's license suspended repeatedly, authorities say.

OTTAWA, July 10 (UPI) -- The Canadian Supreme Court ruled Friday two transit systems in British Columbia were wrong in forbidding political advertising on city buses.

OMAHA, July 10 (UPI) -- A 12-year-old Nebraska boy was arrested after a schoolmate said he sexually assaulted her in a bathroom at their elementary school.

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CHICAGO, July 10 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Roland Burris said Friday he will not run for election to a full term in 2010.

PENSACOLA, Fla., July 10 (UPI) -- A Florida couple with 16 children, 12 of them adopted, were found shot dead in their home near Pensacola, police said.