Cleveland search...CIA kidnapping convictions...Iran protests

CLEVELAND (AP) Investigators in Cleveland are preparing to tear apart the walls of the house where a convicted rapist had been living among 10 corpses. They're searching for more evidence or possibly more bodies. Anthony Sowell appeared in court under tight security this morning. He's been ordered held without bond.

MILAN (AP) An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans in absentia of the 2003 kidnapping of a terror suspect. The Egyptian cleric was grabbed off a Milan street in a CIA extraordinary rendition. Milan CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady was given the stiffest sentence, eight years in prison. The other 22 convicted Americans were sentenced to five years. Three others were acquitted.

Washington (AP) The White House is calling for an end to violence in Iran. Iranian security forces have been beating anti-government protesters with batons on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies marking the 30th anniversary of the U.S.

Embassy takeover. The White House says it's following the reports of the unrest and hopes that violence will not spread.

WASHINGTON (AP) The Republican Party chairman says the GOP has "found its voice again," after voters in Virginia and New Jersey elected Republican governors yesterday. The White House says the races were local in nature and not referendums on President Barack Obama.

NEW YORK (AP) New York's attorney general has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel. The suit claims the company used "illegal threats and collusion" to dominate the marketplace for computer microprocessors. Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says internal e-mails show Intel tried to prevent the sale of competitors' products by paying billions of dollars in kickbacks to computer manufacturers.

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