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From what’s going on in the Capitol to what’s happening oversees, we have it all.

Today we see that former Presidential candidate John Edwards will be indicted on criminal charges, while “The View’s” Elisabeth Hasselbeck calls out Sarah Palin.

Inside the Capitol

Where: Washington D.C.

Who: John Edwards

What Happened: John Edwards will be indicted today on criminal charges after a two-year investigation seeking to connect the former senator to an allegedly illegal scheme to cover-up his extra-marital affair, ABC News has learned.

The case against Edwards, which called on more than 100 witnesses, will seek to prove that hundreds of thousands of dollars were allegedly used illegally to seclude and support his mistress Rielle Hunter, so Edwards could continue his campaign for the presidency in 2008.

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Hero of the Day

Who: Geronimo Pratt

What Happened: Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, the former Black Panther who was wrongly imprisoned for 27 years on a murder conviction, died Thursday at the age of 63 in a small village in Tanzania where he lived with his wife and child. 

Stuart Hanlon, a San Francisco-based lawyer who helped overturn Pratt’s murder conviction, said he did not know the exact cause of death.

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Take It in the Ring

Contenders: Elisabeth Hasselbeck vs. Sarah Palin

Match: Nothing better than a cat fight. Elisabeth Hasselbeck says Sarah Palin is “manipulating” the media away from giving attention to Mitt Romney.

On Thursday’s “The View,” Hasslebeck argued that although the country is facing major economic problems ― something she claims is Romney’s strength ― Palin’s bus tour is dominating the headlines about the Republican presidential contenders.

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Shame On You

Who: Jeffrey Ritter

Where: New York City

What Happened: Remember the guy that terrorized old ladies on the Upper East Side of Manhattan? Well the police busted him. Jeffrey Ritter, 32, was nabbed in an East New York apartment around 1 a.m. after cops got a tip from a neighbor who recognized him from surveillance footage shown on TV.

Ritter was charged with criminal sexual act, robbery and sexual abuse, cops said. The depraved drifter living in Brooklyn with a transgender girlfriend, was busted Thursday in the vicious sex assault of a 85-year-old woman on the Upper East Side, police said.

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Better Than Fiction

Character: Terrorist

Plot Line: Luciano Pitronello Schuffeneger, 22 a wanna-be terrorist from Chile, tried to blow up a bank, but instead blew up himself. Schuffeneger suffered third-degree burns throughout his body, lost his eyesight and had to have both hands amputated when an explosive he intended to detonate in a local bank unexpectedly went off, El Mercurio newspaper reported.

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Numbers Game

Number: 32

Where: Nigeria

What Happened: OMG! Police in Nigeria freed 32 teen girls from an alleged “baby factory” used to feed the region’s exploding sex trade and human trafficking markets, authorities said.

Cops in the southern Nigerian city of Aba raided the clinic, known as The Cross Foundation, Monday after receiving a tip that the owner was harboring pregnant girls and selling their babies, Nigeria’s Daily Champion newspaper reported.

Some of the girls, who were between 15 and 17, told authorities that the clinic’s owner, Dr. Hyacinth Orikara, forced them to sell their babies to him for around $190, depending on the gender, Agence France-Presse reported.

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This Day In History

Year: 1989

What: With protests for democratic reforms entering their seventh week, the Chinese government authorizes its soldiers and tanks to reclaim Beijing’s Tiananmen Square at all costs. By nightfall on June 4, Chinese troops had forcibly cleared the square, killing hundreds and arresting thousands of demonstrators and suspected dissidents.