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Afghanistan if they were U.S. special operations forces.
• Over the roar of the rotors, one of them shouted to Bergdhal: "Yes, we've been looking for you for a long time."
• The only American prisoner of the Afghan war, Bergdahl broke down in tears.
• The emotional moment was described by a defense official, one of several U.S. officials who detailed Bergdahl's release Saturday. In exchange for the 28-year-old American, President Barack Obama agreed to release five high-level Afghan detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
• "While Bowe was gone, he was never forgotten," Obama said in a statement from the White House Rose Garden, where he was joined by Bergdahl's parents. "The United States of America does not ever leave our men and women in uniform behind."
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French authorities: Suspect in Brussels Jewish museum shootings that killed at least 3

• PARIS (AP) -- A man has been arrested in southeast France in the investigation of a shooting at a Jewish museum in Brussels that left at least three people dead, the Paris prosecutor's office said Sunday.
• An official with the prosecutor's office says the suspect has been handed to anti-terrorist investigators and could be held at least through Tuesday under French counterterrorism law. She says the man was arrested Friday during a customs inspection at a train and bus station in the port city of Marseille.
• The man was found to have a revolver and an automatic weapon of the same type used in the Brussels shootings May 24. The official said ballistics analyses are under way to determine if it is the same weapon.
• The man had arrived in Marseille on a bus from Amsterdam that had stopped in Brussels, she said. She would not provide further information and was not authorized to be publicly named when speaking of ongoing investigations.
• The Paris prosecutor was expected to give a news conference Sunday on the matter.
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Mickelson says he's cooperating in insider trading investigation involving him, investor Icahn

• DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) -- Hall of Fame golfer Phil Mickelson confirmed that FBI agents investigating insider trading approached him this week at the Memorial Tour

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