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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A sheriff's deputy was acquitted of all charges Thursday in the videotaped shooting of an unarmed Iraq war veteran who was a passenger in a car that crashed after a high-speed police chase.

Former San Bernardino County Deputy Ivory J. Webb was found not guilty of attempted voluntary manslaughter and assault with a firearm for opening fire on Elio Carrion, an Air Force senior airman, said Susan Mickey, a district attorney's spokeswoman.

Webb, 46, who has since left the department, had faced as many as 18 years in prison if convicted. He hugged his attorney and burst into tears after the verdict was read in San Bernardino County Superior Court.

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Democratic Presidential hopeful former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C. answers questions during the televised Democratic presidential candidates debate at Howard University in Washington Thursday, June 28, 2007.

Quotes from the Democratic debate

Democrats denounce desegregation ruling

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BAGHDAD (AP) — A car bomb killed 22 people Thursday in a bus station in western Baghdad, and police said 20 beheaded bodies had been discovered on the banks of the Tigris River southeast the capital. Government security officials raised doubts about the decapitation report.The car bomb ripped through a crowded transport hub in southwest Baghdad’s Baiyaa neighborhood at morning rush hour, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 50, police said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized the release the information.

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LONDON (AP) - Britain's new prime minister has begun naming his cabinet, and his senior circle includes some prominent Iraq war critics.

Brown tapped David Miliband as Foreign Secretary. Miliband voted in favor of British participation in the Iraq war but has since voiced concerns about the conflict. He has also criticized Tony Blair's Middle East policy at times, arguing last summer that Blair should have insisted on an immediate cease-fire when Israel went to war with Hezbollah (hez-BUH'-lah) in Lebanon.

Brown also gave a foreign affairs post to Mark Malloch-Brown, the former deputy UN secretary-general. During his time at the UN, Malloch-Brown clashed with then US Ambassador John Bolton and derided the US approach to Darfur as "megaphone diplomacy."

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KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine --President Bush's summertime meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Bush family's oceanfront estate is about lobsters, legacies and a break from increasing tensions.

Relations between Washington and Moscow are strong, but on the skids, and both Bush and Putin want to massage those relations before leaving office.

Putin, bolstered by Russia's economic muscle and popularity at home, has adopted an assertive posture on the world stage. He has bluntly opposed a U.S. missile defense plan in Europe. Putin bristles when Bush scolds the Kremlin for rolling back democratic reforms and fends off what he sees as U.S. meddling in the affairs of ex-Soviet nations.

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