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Should Cameron Diaz really be swaying D.C.?

by Jim Fletcher -- Let's say it up front: The vapidness of many of those who practice their craft in Tinseltown is grotesque, tragic, annoying, malevolent, pathetic ... and fascinating! For too more…

Lotto winner busted for welfare fraud

by -NO AUTHOR- -- (ABC NEWS) Amanda Clayton, who admitted to receiving public food assistance after winning $1 million in the state lotto, was arrested Monday evening in Michigan on two felony more…

Report: Agents bragged about guarding Obama

by -NO AUTHOR- -- (ABC NEWS) CARTAGENA, Colombia — ABC News has learned exclusively that the Secret Service officials accused of misconduct in Colombia revealed their identities by boasting at a Cartagena more…

Space shuttle carried into retirement

by -NO AUTHOR- -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANHWTSionGY The Space Shuttle Discovery today completed its final flight, from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to Washington, D.C., where it will be displayed in the Smithsonian. At the end more…

Cops handcuff kindergartner for tantrum

by -NO AUTHOR- -- MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Police in Georgia handcuffed a kindergartner after the girl threw a tantrum and the police chief defended the action. The girl’s family demanded Tuesday more…

Bus drivers take turns for worse

by -NO AUTHOR- -- School bus drivers across the nation have made headlines recently for all the wrong reasons, including spectacular crashes and charges of drunken driving and theft of the iconic more…

21% of New Yorkers live in poverty

by -NO AUTHOR- -- (N.Y. TIMES) The number of New Yorkers classified as poor in 2010 increased by nearly 100,000 from the year before, raising the poverty rate by 1.3 percentage points more…

Report: Radio hosts inspire anti-Islamist attacks

by -NO AUTHOR- -- (MSNBC) Anti-Islamist groups and individuals like those that inspired Norwegian Anders Berhing Breivik to launch his bloody attacks in Norway last July are growing in number, reach and more…

Neighbors: Zimmerman showed signs of injuries

by -NO AUTHOR- -- (Reuters) - Neighbors of George Zimmerman say he had bandages on his nose and head the day after he shot dead Trayvon Martin, supporting statements by the neighborhood more…