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an alarm in recent weeks that Iran was trying to promote Shiism in the country.
• That brought warnings from the Sunni Islamists that Iran had hoped would be friendly to their religious-based leadership.
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Campaign corruption charges dropped against John Edwards; some say shouldn't have been brought
• RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A relieved John Edwards said after his mistrial on campaign corruption charges that he believed good things were still in store for him, though image makers and his friends agree that does not include politics.
• The ex-presidential candidate who turned 59 this week will no longer have to face that future with federal charges hanging over his head after prosecutors on Wednesday dropped their campaign fraud case against him. After a six-week trial in North Carolina, jurors acquitted Edwards May 31 on one count of accepting illegal campaign contributions and deadlocked on five other felony counts. The judge declared a mistrial.
• The U.S. Justice Department said in a court order that it will not seek to retry Edwards on the five unresolved counts, leaving some to say the charges shouldn't have been brought in the first place.
• Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer, who oversees the agency's criminal division, said prosecutors knew the case, like all campaign finance cases, would be challenging. But he said it is "our duty to bring hard cases" when warranted.
• "Last month, the government put forward its best case against Mr. Edwards, and I am proud of the skilled and professional way in which our prosecutors .... conducted this trial," he said, adding that he respected the jury's judgment and decided not to seek a retrial "in the interest of justice."
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From tickets to threat, accusers talk of Sandusky's sway at ex-PSU coach's sex abuse trial
• BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) -- One of Jerry Sandusky's accusers said he stayed quiet to keep going to Penn State football games.
• Another man, who was a foster child when he met Sandusky through his Second Mile charity, spoke of a threat -- that Sandusky told him he would never see his family again if he told anyone what happened.
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