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updated 3:23 p.m.EDT, Thu May 12, 2011

Obama wants 2 more years for FBI chief

The president wants to tack an extra two years onto Robert Mueller's 10-year term because of "ongoing threats." FULL STORY

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• Violence traumatizes Syrian-Americans
• Ticker: Meghan McCain takes it off
• LIVE: Casey Anthony jury selection
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• Jim Lehrer to leave PBS anchor chair
• Study: Belief in God is human nature
• Prom proposal gets boy banned
• Tiger withdraws from Players Golf.com
• Will Smith's monster-size trailer
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Study: Religious belief is human nature

Religion comes naturally, even instinctively, to human beings, a massive new study suggests. The findings come from a three-year project that incorporated more than 40 different studies from around the globe. FULL STORY

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World

• Is Misrata under rebel control?
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• Demjanjuk guilty of Nazi war crimes
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