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Recovery loses speed as consumers turn cautious (AP) Haynesworth fails test again, misses practice (AP)

In this photograph taken July 22, 2010, employees sort garlic cloves at the Christopher Ranch, in Gilroy, Calif. The recovery lost momentum in the second quarter as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent pace, its most sluggish showing in nearly a year and too weak to drive down unemployment. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - The recovery lost momentum in the spring as growth slowed to a 2.4 percent pace, its most sluggish showing in nearly a year and too weak to drive down unemployment.


Washington Redskins defensive lineman Albert Haynesworth walks off the field at the NFL football team's training camp, Thursday, July 29, 2010, at Redskins Park in Ashburn, Va. Haynesworth failed his conditioning test Thursday and was forced to sit out the first practice of the Redskins training camp.  (AP Photo/Nick Wass)AP - Albert Haynesworth has failed his conditioning test for a second consecutive day and is being forced to sit out practice again at Washington Redskins training camp.


July the deadliest month of Afghan war for US (AP) Police review handling of 911 call in Wright case (AP)

NATO and US soldiers are seen standing guard in Kabul. Three foreign soldiers were killed in two separate Taliban-style bomb attacks in Afghanistan's volatile south, NATO said Friday.(AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini)AP - NATO announced Friday that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war.


AP - Police in the Memphis suburb of Germantown are reviewing how a 911 call from Lorenzen Wright's cell phone was handled as authorities investigate the shooting death of the former NBA player.
Incoming BP CEO: Time for 'scaleback' in cleanup (AP) Aide: Pitino never mentioned seeking abortion (AP)

File - In this June 16, 2010 file photo, BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward, left, and BP Managing Director Bob Dudley arrive with other BP executives at the White House in Washington DC. The appointment of American oilman Robert Dudley to replace luckless Briton Tony Hayward as CEO is the latest milestone in the waning Britishness of the company once known as British Petroleum. (AP Photo / Susan Walsh, file)AP - BP's incoming CEO said Friday that it's time for a "scaleback" of the massive effort to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but he added that the commitment to make things right is the same as ever.


Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino, left, is escorted by Chris Francis of the U.S. Attorney's office as he arrives at the federal courthouse to testify in the trial of Karen Cunagin Sypher in Louisville, Ky., Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)AP - A longtime aide to Rick Pitino told jurors the Louisville men's basketball coach asked him to take a woman out of town for medical services after she said the coach got her pregnant in a one-night tryst at a restaurant.


Obama to sell auto bailout good news in Michigan (AP) England 'keeper James joins Bristol City (AFP)

President Barack Obama, accompanied by, from left, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, arrive at Detroit Wayne County Airport in Detroit, Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - President Barack Obama said Friday that the recent turnaround for U.S. automakers vindicated his unpopular decision to bailout the industry.


England goalkeeper David James, pictured here in June, completed a surprise switch to second tier side Bristol City on Friday.(AFP/File/Paul Ellis)AFP - England goalkeeper David James completed a surprise switch to second tier side Bristol City on Friday.


Arizona sheriff not relenting after court ruling (AP) Newman says he was fined by NASCAR (AP)

Angry protesters shout at sheriff's deputies outside the offices of controversial Maricopa county sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix. Several hundred activists marched here Thursday as a new Arizona immigration law went into effect, sparking a tense standoff with riot police in which about two dozen people were arrested.(AFP/Mark Ralston)AP - Lost in the hoopla over Arizona's immigration law is the fact that state and local authorities for years have been doing their own aggressive crackdowns in the busiest illegal gateway into the country.


AP - Ryan Newman says he was one of the drivers fined by NASCAR for making critical comments about the racing series and hinted that Denny Hamlin was another.