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China's unlikely export, and more
feature Most garlic sold in the U.S. now comes from China.
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Identifying the remains of 9/11 victims, and more
feature Ten years later, no remains from 1,121 of the people who died at the World Trade Center have ever been identified.
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Obama vetoes aid to Syrian rebels, and more
feature President Obama nixed a plan to arm the Syrian rebels in 2012.
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A record amount of carbon dioxide, and more
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Wall Street under Obama and Bush, and more
feature Wall Street securities firms have made more money under the Obama administration than the Bush administration.
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Partisan commencement speeches?, and more
feature No Republican or conservative has been invited to make the commencement speech this year at any of the 50 top U.S. liberal arts colleges.
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Swine flu vaccine hit by expiration date, and more
feature About a quarter of the swine flu vaccine purchased by the federal government during last year’s outbreak has expired and will now be destroyed.
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Fauja Singh, age 100, runs a marathon, and more
feature Singh took up running at age 89 after his wife and child died.
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Obama's staff picks, and more
feature Barack Obama has filled more top positions for his administration than had either Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, or Ronald Reagan at a similar point in their own transitions.
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Mass shootings and mental health, and more
feature The mental health of the killer has not been an issue in most of the mass shootings that have occurred since 2009.
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Suicides surpass motor vehicle deaths, and more
feature More Americans now take their own lives each year—about 37,000—than die in car crashes, a new study has found.
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Why children go missing, and more
feature The vast majority of children reported missing are not abducted by strangers.
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Iraq's war widows, and more
feature After two decades of war and civil conflict, about 1.5 million Iraqi women are widows, a new study says.
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A warm start to the year, and more
feature The U.S. just experienced the warmest start to a year since records began, in 1895.
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Suicide deaths surpass battle deaths, and more
feature More active-duty U.S. troops have committed suicide this year than have been killed in battle.
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