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Comedian and actor Andy Richter's new sitcom is Andy Barker, P.I. Richter plays an accountant who is mistaken for the detective who formerly occupied the office he is renting. He reluctantly takes on the role of private investigator and discovers he likes it.

Gen. Romeo Dallaire was commander of the U.N. peacekeeping forces in Rwanda 10 years ago during one of the worst massacres in modern history. Some 800,000 Rwandans were killed in 100 days. Most of them were Tutsi and moderate Hutu civilians. During that time Dallaire and his troops were denied authority to intervene. The experience changed him, tormented him, and filled him with guilt. He suffered from post traumatic stress syndrome, was suicidal and depressed. He's written a new account, Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda.

Last Friday, during continuing coverage of the attempted coup in Turkey, we mistakenly attributed a tweet from a parody Twitter account to GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.

When Lonia Haeger's camper got trapped in ice in northern Norway, she created a Tinder account and got a match. Stian Lauluten came to the rescue with a bulldozer and helped free the camper.

When other users saw Stone's profile, they reported it, thinking it was an imposter. The star of Basic Instinct tweeted at Bumble, pleading: "Don't shut me out of the hive." Her account was restored.

Tesla also announced early Friday that Chief Accounting Officer Dave Morton had resigned after just a month on the job, citing public attention and the fast pace of the post.

The Multnomah County sheriff's office got a call that a big cat with spots was loose. The zoo said all cheetahs were accounted for. Deputies found a large stuffed animal, a cheetah, sitting on a log.

Personal accounts and reflections of individuals affected by the Iraq war. Mandy Terc is a master's student in Middle Eastern studies at Harvard. The 25-year-old Chicago native is in Beirut taking Arabic classes and working on an oral history project about Palestinian refugees. This week, Terc attended a candlelight vigil in downtown Beirut. She was with a few of her American friends, each holding a sign with a message protesting the war in Iraq. Her sign read "Americans Say Regime Change Starts At Home."

The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is probing the alleged unprovoked killings of 24 civilians last November by U.S. Marines in the insurgent hotbed of Haditha, Iraq. According to news accounts, the killings were in retaliation for the death of Marine Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas, Jr.

Sandy Tolan talks about his book The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East. The account grew out of a 1998 NPR documentary in which Tolan reported on a friendship between a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman that served as an example of the region's fragile history.