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Ashley Barrett-Carter weighed 263 pounds when she entered Sgt. Ryan Memolo’s Army recruiting station about one year ago, the Dallas News reported Tuesday. Barrett-Carter wanted to join the Army and serve her country, but first, Memolo told her she had to lose 100 pounds. “I’ll never see her again,” Memolo …

WASHINGTON – The Bush administration is pledging to do whatever it takes to battle a severe financial crisis that is threatening to push the country into a steep recession. But even with the aggressive steps the government has already taken, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says it will take time before …

ROME – Italian prosecutors on Saturday accused an American student of fatally stabbing her British house mate in a Satanic rite and asked a court to put an alleged African accomplice in prison for life, defense lawyers said. The American, Amanda Knox, 21, proclaimed her innocence at the closed-door hearing …