| Oscars Blog Posted: 02 Feb 2010 01:56 PM PST ![]() The nominations for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards were announced earlier today. With the announcements came a wide array of reactions from the newly crowned nominees.
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| Parents 'reclaim' children in Haiti abduction-adoption row Posted: 02 Feb 2010 07:16 AM PST ![]() WASHINGTON (AFP) – The 33 infants and children that an American Christian group tried to smuggle out of quake-hit Haiti are being reunited with their families, the US-based aid group now caring for them said Tuesday.
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| Breaking Down Obama's Budget Posted: 02 Feb 2010 11:00 AM PST ![]() Perhaps the most obvious of financial truisms is that there's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all national budget. And with the economic forecast looking more incoherent than ever, it's also the most problematic of truisms for President Barack Obama and his $3.8 trillion spending plan for 2011.
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| Study linking MMR vaccine and autism is retracted Posted: 02 Feb 2010 10:05 AM PST ![]() Image by AFP/Getty Images via Daylife If you've followed the debate as to whether vaccines cause autism then you have probably come upon a study published in the journal The Lancet in 1998 that purported to show just that. Dr. Andrew Wakefield's work was held up by thousands of parents who believed that a combination of childhood vaccines was the reason their children contracted autism. But for the past decade, most every other researcher in the field disputed Wakefield's findings, and pointed out that there were ethical conflicts with Wakefield, his study's subjects and the pharmaceutical in
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| Groundhog Day's Punxsutawney Phil Takes To Text, Twitter Posted: 02 Feb 2010 01:56 PM PST  Punxsutawney Phil doppelganger creates Web controversy. The world doesn't consider Punxsutawney Phil is the smartest groundhog in the world for nothing. Not only can Phil predict six more weeks of winter, he can text and tweet too. Here's what Punxsutawney Phil wanted to tell the world on Groundhog Day after he spotted his shadow...wait, is this Phil fa rill?
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| 2010 Oscar Nominations Announced! Posted: 02 Feb 2010 06:15 AM PST  See the full list of nominees for the film industry's biggest night.
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| Palin: Rahm Emanuel should be axed for 'retarded' comment Posted: 02 Feb 2010 09:26 AM PST ![]() Former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin posted a note on her Facebook page late Monday calling for President Obama to fire his Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for comments he made that she said were offensive to children with developmental disabilities. In the Facebook posting...
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| Troubling Trend: The Skyrocketing Rate of C-Sections Posted: 02 Feb 2010 02:33 PM PST  Kitty Schindler for TODAYshow.com: By the time you reach age 86, you begin to think you've seen it all ... but you haven't. Some things still boggle my mind. One of them is the explosion in the rate of C-sections being performed around the world.
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| Ahmadinejad proposes prisoner swap for US hikers (AP) Posted: 02 Feb 2010 12:00 PM PST  AP - Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday proposed a swap of Iranians in U.S. prisons for three American hikers being held in Tehran.
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| Anger after pope condemns gay-friendly laws Posted: 02 Feb 2010 05:53 AM PST ![]() LONDON (AFP) – Gay-rights campaigners and secularists called on Tuesday for protests during a visit to Britain by Pope Benedict XVI this year, after he condemned equality legislation seen as friendly to gays.
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| Murtha in intensive care Posted: 02 Feb 2010 08:07 AM PST  The 77-year-old Dem is in the intensive care unit after undergoing gallbladder surgery last week.
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| Randy Jackson Leaving Idol for X Factor? Posted: 02 Feb 2010 08:56 AM PST  The dream team reunited? This would pretty much be everyone's dream come true! Well, except those of us who have come to love Kara DioGuardi. And those of us who are going to love Ellen Degeneres as an American Idol judge. But it's a possibility Randy Jackson could be leaving American Idol, too, to join Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul on The X Factor.
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| Vanity Fair's "New Hollywood" issue completely lacks diversity Posted: 02 Feb 2010 01:12 PM PST ![]() One thing magazines love to do is call dibs on who will be the new "It" celebrities in the year to come. Sometimes they pick stars whose careers are destined to take off, occasionally they make incredible calls with near-nobodies who later become A-listers, and usually the majority of…
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| Gas drilling in Appalachia yields a foul byproduct (AP) Posted: 02 Feb 2010 10:36 AM PST |
| McCain appears to shift stance on 'don't ask, don't tell' policy Posted: 02 Feb 2010 01:51 PM PST ![]() Three years ago, Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) was pretty clear about his stand on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
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