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AP - The nation's stores were ushering in the official start of the holiday shopping season on Friday with midnight openings, a blitz of door busters and other come-ons.
AP - Delighted, shrieking children were barely able to contain themselves Thursday as Barbie rolled past and enormous Shrek and Snoopy balloons floated overhead in the traditional Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
AP - The Democrats' flagship proposal on Iraq is aimed at bringing most troops home. Yet if enacted, the law would still allow for tens of thousands of U.S. troops to stay deployed for years to come.
An American student embroiled in an Italian murder investigation told police: "The truth is, I am unsure about the truth." Amanda Knox, from Seattle, said she's not sure what happened the night her British roommate was killed -- but that she did not do it. Meredith Kercher's body was found November 2, half-naked, with a stab wound to her neck.
A Dutch court ordered Thursday that Joran van der Sloot be extradited to Aruba for questioning in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway. A lawyer for van der Sloot said his client was bitterly surprised at the turn of events, because he felt he had left the incident behind him.
As many as 60 percent of the foreign fighters who entered Iraq in the past year have come from Saudi Arabia and Libya, according to documents discovered in a raid in September near the Syrian border, a senior U.S. military official in Baghdad confirmed to CNN Thursday.