| Tom DeLay QUITS Dancing With The Stars (VIDEO) Posted: 06 Oct 2009 08:43 PM PDT  Tom DeLay has left ABC's Dancing with the Stars due to stress fractures in both his feet. The man known as "the hammer" tried to tough it out, indeed he ignored the advice of his agent and the producers of the show last week by going ahead and dancing the samba with partner Cheryl Burke, but his injuries have finally forced him to the sideline. As DeLay himself sagely put it, "If you can't practice you'll make a fool out of yourself out here, and I don't want to do that to Cheryl." Exactly, no one on this show is looking to be made into a fool. DeLay's dance next week was to have been the
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| AP Poll: Third of parents oppose swine flu vaccine (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2009 11:39 AM PDT  AP - As the first wave of swine flu vaccine crosses the country, more than a third of parents don't want their kids vaccinated, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.
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| Rookie cut from Ravens dies in Washington Posted: 07 Oct 2009 10:03 AM PDT ![]() Tony Fein, an Iraq war veteran and NFL rookie linebacker who played with the Baltimore Ravens during the preseason, has died of unexplained causes after collapsing at a friend's house in what his agent said appears to be "an accidental situation." Fein, 27, an undrafted rookie free agent from Mississippi, was lying face down and unconscious, vomiting and barely breathing when medics...
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| In Violent Chicago, 'It's Tough to Be a Kid' Posted: 06 Oct 2009 09:12 PM PDT  CHICAGO, Oct. 6 -- Heading home from school, Leon Porch knows not to dawdle and, if trouble breaks out, never to choose sides.
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| Strong quakes near Vanuatu spark tsunami alert (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2009 03:58 PM PDT  AP - Two powerful earthquakes rocked the South Pacific near the Vanuatu archipelago Thursday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, triggering a regional tsunami alert.
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| Dems Divert GOP Vote to Dethrone Rangel Posted: 07 Oct 2009 08:53 AM PDT  Congressional Democrats have blocked a GOP sponsored resolution calling for Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) to surrender his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee. Instead, the Democratically controlled House voted to refer the question to the ethics committee. The resolution was introduced by Texas Republican John Carter and was never expected to pass in the Democratically controlled Congress. But, it signals a new era in a GOP campaign against the veteran lawmaker because of questions over his financial dealings. Rangel is chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means committee, w
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| Heidi Klum Saying 'Auf Wiedersehen' To Last Name Posted: 06 Oct 2009 02:10 PM PDT  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Supermodel and "Project Runway" host Heidi Klum is losing her last name - she's filed a petition to change her last name to her married name, "Samuel." Her singer husband, Seal's, full name is Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel.
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| Pirates mistakenly attack French naval vessel Posted: 07 Oct 2009 07:46 AM PDT ![]() Five Somali pirates have been captured after firing on a French naval vessel by mistake, apparently thinking it was a cargo ship, the BBC reports. French military spokesman Admiral Christophe Prazuck says the pirates attacked at night about 300 miles off the Somalia coast. But instead of a harmless cargo vessel, they tangled (briefly) with the Somme, a French navy command and supply ship.Admiral Prazuck told French TV station La Chaine Info that the pirates...
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| Man gets 10 years in prison for beating 6-year-old Posted: 06 Oct 2009 09:14 PM PDT  An Angelina County state district judge has sentenced a Lufkin man to 10 years in prison -- the maximum sentence under the charge -- for beating a 6-year-old boy last year who suffered from severe asthma. The child has since died from health complications. Prosecutors have said the death was not directly related to the conviction for which a sentence was handed down Thursday. Lufkin Police arrested 35-year-old Eddrick Keith Latson in April 2008 on charges of injury to a child -- a third-degree felony offense. A school nurse later told police she had treated 6-year-old Jabraelin Pleasant for br
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| Feds limit Ariz. sheriff's crackdown on illegal immigrants Posted: 07 Oct 2009 07:46 AM PDT ![]() Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he will continue his controversial "crime suppression operations" despite a Department of Homeland Security decision to strip him of authority to arrest suspected illegal immigrants based solely on their immigration status, the East Valley Tribune reports."It's all politics," says Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County. Arpaio will still have the power to check the immigration status of people booked by his officers, but not the authority to conduct street patrols looking...
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| Today, Martha, The View Posted: 07 Oct 2009 02:24 PM PDT ![]() Follow the travels of a retail buyer. Skeet Ulrich starts his three-episode arc. What's next for the crass-talking kids?
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| Letterman Still Laughing on 'Late Night' Posted: 07 Oct 2009 07:15 AM PDT  David Letterman is still the butt of his own jokes on the "Late Show" -- and the ratings are up!
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| Allow Me to Introduce: The Biggest Sucker Rally Since The Great Depression (ETFguide.com) Posted: 07 Oct 2009 10:11 AM PDT ![]() A 50% rally, Warren Buffett, extreme levels of optimism, rallies based on vague reports of improvements, etc.; all the aforementioned are parallels between the 1929-1930 bear market rally and the rally from the March lows.
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| ESPN video case shows holes in hotel security (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2009 07:31 AM PDT  AP - The hotel industry is reexamining guest privacy safeguards in light of the case of an ESPN reporter who was videotaped nude through the peephole of her hotel room door, allegedly by a man who reserved an adjacent room.
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| Model photo sparks outrage Posted: 07 Oct 2009 02:12 PM PDT  Airbrushing allegations over a Ralph Lauren ad have prompted a heated feud.
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