| What will Conan O'Brien do? (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 09:15 AM PST  AP - If "Tonight" show host Conan O'Brien decides he doesn't want to shift back to a post-midnight time slot at NBC, Fox executives have a clear message for him: We love you.
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| Jayson Williams pleads guilty in fatal NJ shooting (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 07:35 AM PST  AP - Former NBA star Jayson Williams, his personal life in shambles, took responsibility for accidentally shooting his limousine driver to death eight years ago by pleading guilty Monday to assault and agreeing to serve at least 18 months in prison.
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| Skewed China birth rate to leave 24 mln men single Posted: 11 Jan 2010 08:51 AM PST ![]() BEIJING (AFP) – More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020, state media reported on Monday, citing a study that blamed sex-specific abortions as a major factor.
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| Mark McGwire comes clean, admits to using steroids Posted: 11 Jan 2010 12:47 PM PST ![]() Almost five years after clamming up in front of Congress, Mark McGwire is finally willing to talk about the past. In a statement released to the AP on Monday afternoon , Big Mac admitted that he took steroids on and off for almost a decade and was a PED user when he hit 70 home runs during the fa...
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| Simon Cowell says this is his final season on 'American Idol' and will launch American X-Factor Posted: 11 Jan 2010 01:15 PM PST ![]() Those were the days (Image by Getty Images via Daylife) It sounds like American Idol is dead. The Fox talent contest always seemed invincible, but its formula has finally been trounced by its panel of critics' desire to make more money elsewhere. Or at least some of them. Simon Cowell revealed at Fox's executive session with the Television and Correspondents Association today that this season was his last. Paula Abdul already gave up on the talent-seeking program prior to the filming of season 9. And while she spent so many years putting up with bad-hair-lifed Simon Cowell's guff, does his
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| Some see racist theme in alien adventure 'Avatar' (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 03:33 AM PST ![]() - Near the end of the hit film "Avatar," the villain snarls at the hero, "How does it feel to betray your own race?" Both men are white — although the hero is inhabiting a blue-skinned, 9-foot-tall, long-tailed alien. Strange as it may seem for a film that pits greedy, immoral humans against no...
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| 6 Western troops killed in Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 10 Jan 2010 11:07 PM PST  AP - Six NATO service members, including three Americans, were killed in Afghanistan on Monday — the deadliest day for the international force in more than two months, underscoring fears that casualties will rise as more foreign troops stream into the country.
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| Court blocks taping of gay marriage trial Posted: 11 Jan 2010 09:12 AM PST ![]() The Supreme Court on Monday morning temporarily blocked a federal judge in San Francisco from showing on YouTube proceedings from a trial that will determine whether a ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
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| Linda Milazzo: Waxman Attacks Winograd on Israel; Ignites a Political Firestorm Posted: 11 Jan 2010 10:43 AM PST  At the behest of his congressional ally, Jane Harman (CA-36), Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman (CA-30) has launched a mean-spirited ideological assault on Harman's Democratic primary challenger, Marcy Winograd, that is garnering disfavor for Waxman and Harman amongst Democratic voters. Marcy Winograd In a move characterized by one Harman constituent as desperate, Waxman sent the following letter to Harman's Jewish supporters, attacking and misquoting Winograd's position on the issue of Israel/Palestine. Here is the text of Waxman's letter, distributed on his letterhead: FROM THE DESK
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| Politicus: Oil at Heart of Dispute Over Iran Posted: 11 Jan 2010 04:53 AM PST ![]() Thirty-one years after oil strikes helped topple the shah, oil looms again, this time looking like the West's possible best shot to head off nukes in Iran.
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| Ford Fusion Hybrid wins 2010 car of year award (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 08:51 AM PST ![]() Ford Motor Co.'s market momentum got a lift Monday by winning both the 2010 North American Car and Truck of the Year awards.
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| Egypt: New find shows slaves didn't build pyramids (AP) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 04:08 AM PST  AP - Egypt displayed on Monday newly discovered tombs more than 4,000 years old and said they belonged to people who worked on the Great Pyramids of Giza, presenting the discovery as more evidence that slaves did not build the ancient monuments.
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| APNewsBreak: McGwire admits using steroids Posted: 11 Jan 2010 12:13 PM PST ![]() Sobbing and sniffling, Mark McGwire finally answered the steroid question. Ending more than a decade of denials and evasion, McGwire admitted Monday what many had suspected for so long -- that steroids and human growth hormone helped make him a home run king. "The toughest thing is my wife, my parents, close friends have had no idea that I hid it from them all this time," he told The...
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| Democrats close ranks around Reid Posted: 11 Jan 2010 02:29 AM PST ![]() Democrats on Sunday rallied to the defense of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid from a political firestorm caused by his newly reported remarks during the 2008 presidential campaign describing Barack Obama as "light-skinned" who chose to speak "with no Negro dialect." "I think if you look at the reports as I have, it was all in the context of saying positive things about Senator Obama," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine. "It definitely was in the context of recognizing in Senator Obama a great candidate and future president." Mr. Reid apologized to Mr. Obama on Saturday, an
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| Fed unlikely to be swayed by jobs data: Bullard (Reuters) Posted: 11 Jan 2010 05:55 AM PST ![]() U.S. Federal Reserve monetary policy is unlikely to be pushed off course by December's surprising job losses, a senior Fed official said on Monday.
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