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FirstEnergy says it paid a bribe of more than $4 million dollars to Sam Randazzo before he became chair of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. Gov....

As they start to return home from their positions in southern Lebanon, many Israeli soldiers are disillusioned and disappointed. They believe that the goals of the war -- releasing the two captured soldier and defeating Hezbollah -- were not met. The soldiers blame military commanders and Israeli intelligence for the failures.

Eight Israelis were killed Sunday when Hezbollah fired rockets at the northern port city of Haifa, in Israel. Israel's air force chief says Hezbollah still has a large arsenal of rockets, some of which can reach Tel Aviv.

The white supremacist suspect in Buffalo is 18 years old. Some news organizations and commentators have called him a "teenager" and "child" rather than a "man."

G-8 leaders meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, release a statement expressing "deepening concern" about rising civilian casualties on all sides of the violence in the Middle East. It also blamed the immediate crisis on "efforts by extremists forces to destabilize the region."

Boeing is paying a $615 million fine for defense contract wrongdoings. At the same time, the company continues to pursue new deals for defense contracts. One watchdog group says the agreement points to anti-trust problems in the defense industry.

New fines were issued Wednesday by the Federal Communications Commission. The fines are aimed toward indecent programming on broadcast television.

U.S. and Iraqi forces launch what the military describes as the largest air assault since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. The U.S. military says Operation Swarmer is aimed at clearing "a suspected insurgent operating area" northeast of Samarra.

Outraged by seven civilian deaths in Gaza, Hamas fires homemade rockets into southern Israel Saturday. Leaders of the militant group also decried a move by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to hold a July 26 vote on borders for a Palestinian state.

Newsweek says it is retracting its report that a copy of the Quran was flushed down a toilet by U.S. personnel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during an interrogation. The original report drew significant criticism from the U.S. government and was blamed for deadly protests in Afghanistan.