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• JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) -- A boy who was awoken by a neighbor during a massacre in Afghanistan in March testified at a hearing early Saturday for the U.S. soldier accused in the attack about hiding in a storage room and being struck by a bullet.
• Sadiquallah, a slight boy whose head rose just above the back of the seat he was sitting in, testified by live video feed from Kandahar during a hearing at a military base outside Seattle for Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.
• Bales, 39, is accused of killing 16 civilians, including nine children, in a March 11 attack on two villages near his base. He could face the death penalty if he is convicted.
• Speaking through an interpreter, the boy said a neighbor woke him up when she screamed that an American had "killed our men." He said he and another boy ran to hide in a storage room and ducked behind a curtain.
• Sadiquallah said the shooter had a gun and a light, but he did not identify the person as Bales. Doctors have said a bullet grazed the boy's head, and that the other child was hit in the thigh and also survived.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- After two years of getting pummeled in Wisconsin, Indiana and other battleground states, leaders of the nation's big labor unions were beaming on election night.
• Labor's massive voter turnout effort played a major role in helping President Barack Obama win Ohio, Nevada and Wisconsin, according to exit polls, and its leaders are now looking for a more liberal, pro-union agenda from the White House.
• "There are things the president can do, and we'll be expecting that leadership from President Obama," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told reporters after the election.
• Topping labor's wish list -- for now -- is a push to raise taxes on wealthy Americans and discouraging Obama from agreeing to any deal with Republicans over the looming "fiscal cliff" that cuts into Social Security and Medicare.

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