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  • Americans talk skinny but order more burgers and fries than salads
  • Italian court overturns American Amanda Knox's 2009 murder conviction
  • Study: Cervical-cancer virus also fuels oral cancer
  • After 4-year ordeal in Italy, Amanda Knox returns to Seattle
  • Life remains grim for ordinary Afghans after 10 years of war
  • Study: Cervical-cancer virus also fuels oral cancer
  • U.S. urges NATO allies to boost contributions
  • Senate Democrats float millionaire surtax to pay for jobs bill
  • Eyeing Afghan exit, military faces wider threats, less funding
  • Panel: Healthy men shouldn't get prostate test
  • 3 women win Nobel Peace Prize
  • Secret memo laid legal foundation for Obama team's deadly drone strike on Anwar al-Awlaki
  • Immigrants in Alabama, fearing deportation, make plans for kids
  • Seasoned activists critique Wall Street protests
  • Foreign diseases, insects missed by post-9/11 inspections may cost billions
  • Land and Water Conservation Fund under attack from Republicans in Congress
  • Obama's jobs bill blocked in Senate vote
  • Iranians accused of plot to kill Saudi ambassador to U.S.
  • Iran's role in amateurish assassination plot was doubted at first, officials say
  • Some Democrats explain why they opposed Obama's jobs bill
  • Vitamins' "health halo" slips in recent studies
  • Senate Republicans unveil competing jobs proposal
  • Appeals court bars student-immigration checks in Alabama but lets parts of controversial law stand
  • Senate Republicans unveil competing jobs proposal
  • Vitamins' "health halo" slips in recent studies
  • All U.S. troops reportedly will leave Iraq by year's end
  • Medicare yanks licenses, gives them right back
  • "Better days ahead," Obama says at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial dedication
  • Earth's population on doorstep of 7 billion
  • Philadelphia police: Disabled victimized by theft scheme
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton pledges U.S. support in visit to Libya
  • Republican presidential candidates pile on at Las Vegas debate
  • Escaped exotic animals in Ohio shot dead after owner frees them, kills self
  • Schalit's condition leaves Israelis questioning long delay in release
  • Death of a tyrant: Libyan revolutionaries showed Gadhafi no mercy
  • Debate revives Mitt Romney and Rick Perry's longtime rivalry
  • All U.S. troops to leave Iraq by year-end, Obama announces
  • Khadafy's final, defiant days spent eking out a survival while on run
  • 7.2 quake in Turkey kills 138, collapses buildings
  • U.S. ban moves horse slaughter elsewhere