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Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal have been held since July 2009. Along with a third American, who was released last year, they were convicted of spying. The three say they were hiking along the Iraq-Iran border and got lost.

"We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished," the band says. "To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening."

The Salt is a blog is about what we eat and why we eat it. It's about how food opens doors for discussion all over the world, and how it shapes the world, from culture, to science, to history, to business practices and environmental impacts.

A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds the number of people getting coverage is running ahead of the administration's estimate of how many young adults would become insured this year under the law.

By selling some bonds and buying others, the central bank hopes to put downward pressure on long-term interest rates. The hoped-for result: a boost to the economy.

More than half of the people in a recent poll say weight-loss shows influence what they eat. And 49 percent say they believe the television programs will have a positive influence on the obesity epidemic.

Chaohu, a city in eastern China with 4 million people, effectively vanished overnight by administrative order. Many former residents are uneasy with the new reality, and what it means for their future.

As the U.N. addresses the Palestinian bid for statehood, both Israeli settlers and Palestinians are holding rallies in the West Bank in support of their rival causes.

Philadelphia's Mutter Museum invited Stephen and Timothy Quay to capture the collection of medical oddities in the filmmakers' signature moody, avant-garde style. "We never walk through the front door," the Quays say of their approach to film. "We insist on coming through the side door or the back door."

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been criticized recently by Republican presidential candidates who called for his firing and an audit of the central bank. Low opinions of the Fed come from a long history of criticism of its power and secrecy, extending back to Thomas Jefferson.