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WASHINGTON , A federal judge Thursday ordered the government to stop genital searches of Guantanamo Bay detainees who want to meet with their lawyers, concluding that the motivation for the searches is not to enhance security, but to deter the detainees' access to attorneys.

LOS ANGELES - When Lindsay Lohan gets out of rehab this summer, Oprah Winfrey will be waiting to talk to her. Ms. Winfrey's cable channel, OWN, said Friday that she is getting an "exclusive" interview with Miss Lohan that will tape and air in August.

SANTA ANA, Calif. , A Saudi princess charged with human trafficking was freed after her country's consulate posted her $5 million bail, but authorities imposed strict travel requirements and GPS tracking to keep her in Southern California.

NEW YORK, Derek Jeter was not going to take it easy, not after spending 91 agonizing games sidelined with a broken ankle. That's not Jeter. At 39 years old, the New York Yankees captain might not have been ready to return to the team at his desired level of play.

Happy birthday Christine McVie. The former Fleetwood Mac keyboardist, vocalist and writer of some of the band's biggest hits, notably "Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow)," celebrates her 70th birthday on July 12. Raised in Birmingham, England, Miss McVie joined the band in 1970 after marrying founding bassist John McVie.

SAN FRANCISCO , A little girl who was aboard the Asiana Airlines flight that crash-landed died Friday, the same day that authorities confirmed one of the two Chinese teenagers killed in the disaster was hit by a firetruck. The disclosure about the teen raised the tragic possibility that she could have survived the crash only to die in its chaotic aftermath.

SAINT-AMAND-MONTROND, France, Wily Tour de France riders who used the wind and worked together to trap their rivals turned a trek across the flats of central France into a thriller on Friday, as exciting and, for the most unfortunate, as decisive as any spectacular day in the mountains.

A group of Californians who support Proposition 8 have filed legal papers asking the state's highest court to order county clerks to stop granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples. San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera called the move "a desperate obstruction tactic" and said his office would promptly oppose their efforts.

Geraldo Rivera asserted Friday that all-female jury in the George Zimmerman murder trial "would have shot and killed Trayvon Martin a lot sooner than George Zimmerman did." Mr. Rivera, appearing on Fox's "Fox and Friends," said the trial was poisoned by "race politics," accusing the Rev. Al Sharpton of MSNBC of being the catalyst for the state's decision to bring murder charges against Mr.

After Giuseppe Verdi debuted his opera "La Traviata" in Venice in 1853, he called the performance a fiasco, in no small part due to the audience's more than skeptical reaction to the casting of Fanny Salvini-Donatelli, then 38, in the role of Violetta, a young courtesan plagued by consumption.

Calling legislation opposed by Wal-Mart and a handful D.C. lawmakers a job killer, the D.C. Republican Party on Friday urged Mayor Vincent C. Gray, a Democrat, to veto the Large Retailer Accountability Act.

Five D.C. Council members will decide whether Marion Barry should be dealt sanctions in addition to a fine he was issued as punishment for accepting gifts from city contractors. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson on Friday appointed an ad hoc committee that will investigate Mr. Barry's actions.

An IRS policy decision made 17 years ago resulted in the agency distributing billions of dollars in refundable tax credits to illegal immigrants , including $4.2 billion in 2010 alone , according to an oversight committee for the Treasury Department.

SANFORD, Fla. , A jury began deliberating George Zimmerman's fate Friday after hearing dueling portraits of the neighborhood watch captain: a wannabe cop who took the law into his own hands or a well-meaning volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin because he feared for his life.

While many across the political spectrum are happy to see Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano leave her job in Washington, some who live on the West Coast say they'd just as soon not see her out there, after it was revealed Friday that she's poised to take over as head of the University of California school system.