| Angelina Jolie Hates New Orleans Posted: 24 Jan 2010 03:54 AM PST  And calls her Big Easy home with Brad "his house." Angelina Jolie is said to be throwing another tantrum in her relationship with Brad Pitt, and this time it's over one of his greatest passions: the city of New Orleans.
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| Colts rally by Jets and into Super Bowl (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2010 03:23 PM PST  This is perfect for the Indianapolis Colts: They have Peyton Manning and they're back in the Super Bowl. The four-time MVP threw three touchdown passes and the Colts rallied from an 11-point, first-half deficit to beat the New York Jets 30-17 Sunday in the AFC championship game. The Colts (16-2) are now headed back to the NFL title game for the second time in four years and their fourth Super...
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| Axelrod: No W.H. shakeup (Politico) Posted: 23 Jan 2010 07:58 PM PST ![]() Politico - President Obama is moving swiftly to try to recover from his worst week in the White House, speeding up his schedule for engaging in the 2010 political races and planning to use his State of the Union address on Wednesday to show the public a feisty side, White House senior adviser David Axelrod said in a telephone interview with POLITICO.
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| Officials: Suspected US drone crashes in Pakistan (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2010 12:37 AM PST  AP - A suspected U.S. drone crashed in Pakistan's lawless tribal area near the Afghan border Sunday, a rare mishap for a program Washington has increasingly relied on to kill Taliban and al-Qaida militants, said intelligence officials and a local resident.
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| Rehabilitating John Edwards: Difficult but not Impossible Posted: 23 Jan 2010 11:38 AM PST ![]() There's unpopular, there's widely loathed, there's despised, and then there's John Edwards . Americans are a tolerant people, but they have a line, and evidently, when you cheat on your cancer-stricken wife, lie about it to everyone while running for president, and then decline to acknowledge fat...
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| Wal-Mart cuts about 11,200 Sam's Club staffers (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2010 01:10 PM PST ![]() Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Sunday it is cutting about 11,200 jobs at its Sam's Club warehouse division as it outsources in-store product sampling to marketing company Shopper Events in an effort to win more customers and boost lagging sales.
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| Iran budgets for $60 price for crude oil (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2010 06:10 AM PST ![]() Iran planned next year's budget based on an oil price of $60 per barrel, nearly double the price from the last year, the official news agency reported on Sunday, indicating rising optimism over energy prices.
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| Scientists create model of monster 'Frankenstorm' (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2010 11:46 AM PST  AP - Think the recent wild weather that hammered California was bad? Experts are imagining far worse.
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| Okinawa vote pressures Japan on US Marine base (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2010 02:59 AM PST  AP - Japanese voters delivered another blow to a stalled agreement to relocate a key American military base on Okinawa by electing a mayor on Sunday who campaigned on a promise to oppose the project.
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| Dirty Tackle Posted: 24 Jan 2010 10:35 AM PST ![]() A beautiful goal from Jamie Milligan, captain of non-league side Fleetwood Town against Farsley Celtic to help them go top of the table in the Blue Square North.
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| Corruption rampant in Pennsylvania coal country (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2010 09:20 AM PST ![]() AP - After a six-year run in the NFL, Greg Skrepenak came home to Pennsylvania and parlayed his name recognition and hometown popularity into a seat on the Luzerne County Board of Commissioners.
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| Taylor Momsen "Might Not Gonna" Attend Haiti Fundraising Posted: 24 Jan 2010 10:55 AM PST  Get thee to a grammar class, Taylor Taylor Momsen is thinking about Haiti-- kind of. If anyone's wondering about her horrible comments about Haiti right after the earthquake, she kind of tried to make it better... and then made it much worse right after. What is wrong with Taylor Momsen?
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| White House advisers promise sharper focus on jobs (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2010 11:58 AM PST  AP - A politically shaken White House promised Sunday a sharper focus on jobs and the economy, but key advisers were less sure-footed on health care reform. They took a wait-and-see approach as the dust settles from the punishing loss of the late Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat.
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| Sweden rattled by Somali militants in its midst (AP) Posted: 24 Jan 2010 08:07 AM PST  AP - Ten subway stops from downtown Stockholm is "little Mogadishu," a drab suburb of the Swedish capital where radical Islamists are said to be recruiting the sons of Somali immigrants for jihad in the Horn of Africa.
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| Alec Baldwin: The Roberts Court Takes Aim at Campaign Finance Reform Posted: 24 Jan 2010 12:43 PM PST  It was the late actor Ron Silver who had introduced me to the Buckley v. Valeo decision, back in 1988, shortly after Silver, Susan Sarandon, Chris Reeve and HBO head Michael Fuchs had formed the advocacy group The Creative Coalition (TCC). The issue of campaign finance reform had begun to emerge as one of the organization's primary interests, along with government funding for the arts, abortion rights, gun control and environmental protection. I had studied political science at George Washington University from 1976 to 1979, but the Buckley v. Valeo case, hastily put into place for the 1976 C
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