Sounding confident and speaking fluent Italian, a U.S. student charged with murdering her British roommate told a court Friday that she was innocent and was sure the truth would come out.

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One of the victims of Thursday night’s fiery plane crash in New York state, Beverly Eckert, was a Sept. 11 widow who put her never-ending grief to good use to make the country safer.

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Investors sent Washington a message this week: They won’t commit to stocks until the government commits to a plan. Stocks fell, leaving the Dow at its lowest close since Nov.

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The peanut processing company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak is going out of business. Lynchburg, Va.-based Peanut Corp. of America filed for Chapter 7.

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Debris from this week’s satellite collision could circle Earth for up to 10,000 years, threatening many other satellites in an already-crowded area, Russia’s Mission Control chief said Friday.

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He’s 13. He scarcely looks 10. And according to a British tabloid, he’s a father. Asked what he would do to support the child financially, Alfie asks in a small, high-pitched voice, “What’s financially?”

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JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. are halting home foreclosures while the Obama administration develops its plans to help the U.S. housing market.

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The crew of Continental Connection Flight 3407 discussed a “significant” buildup of ice on the windshield and wings shortly before the plane crashed into a home in upstate New York, federal investigators said Friday.

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Handing the new administration a big win, House Democrats passed President Barack Obama’s $787 billion plan to resuscitate the economy on Friday despite a wall of Republican opposition.

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The economic recession has pushed hundreds of thousands of Americans into a sort of employment limbo, still holding onto a job but worried that they might lose it any day.

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