Tiger Woods has refused a police interview for the third time today. Smart move. He's under no obligation to talk to them. His traffic accident is under investigation and the Fifth Amendment applies as much to celebrities as anyone else. He also put a statement on his website taking full responsibility for the accident and saying his wife did nothing but come to his aid after seeing he was injured....

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It is one thing that the Obama administration decided not to try to pursue many proven cost-cutting solutions because they are too politically difficult; governing is the art of the possible. But pretending these proven cost-controlling ideas don't even exist is governmental malpractice.If you trade away most of the cost controlling reforms to bring the different industries on board, you have no right...

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An app developer has found the identifier for an as-yet unreleased iPhone in its usage records, providing evidence that a new iPhone is under testing by Apple. iPhone development company Pandav , which makes the iBart app, spotted the phone this month in stats provided to it by analytics firm Pinch Media. The usage logs for the first time showed a phone identified as “iPhone3,1″, even though the last...

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The most surreal moment from a surreal incident. The breach isn't quite as dire as it seems -- Marc Ambinder notes that sensitive radiological and biological sensors are deployed around the perimeter of the White House to make sure nothing anthrax-y gets in -- but it's true that the ...

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Kent Conrad is trying to sell his Social Security/Medicare cutting commission idea to the White House, and they seem to be listening, to a degree. To briefly recap: Senators from both parties on Tuesday put new pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to turn the power to trim entitlement benefits over to an independent commission. Seven members of the Senate Budget Committee threatened during a Tuesday hearing...

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Scary! Brittany Murphy's husband, Simon Monjack, was rushed to an El Lay hospital on Saturday after the couple's flight landed from Puerto Rico at LAX! The Clueless actress told EMTs she thought her husband was having an asthma attack, but the professionals decided otherwise when they boarded the plane and saw that Monjack was "incoherent." No word [...]

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WINDERMERE, Fla. — Tiger Woods canceled another meeting with state troopers on Sunday, the third straight time he's done so. He posted a statement on his Web site that said the accident was his fault alone, but failed to address many of the lingering questions about the crash that sent him to a hospital. The statement was posted about an hour before state troopers were to meet with the world's No....

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These folks sure don't let reality interfere with their propaganda. Ski resorts across the country are using the Thanksgiving weekend to jump start their winter seasons, but with every passing year comes a frightening realization: If global temperatures continue to rise, fewer and fewer resorts will be able to open for the traditional beginning of ski season.Warmer temperatures at night are

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Four children ages 2 to 14 were among five people killed when a minivan packed with kids rolled on a Louisiana interstate, and seven others remained in critical condition, state police said Sunday.

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The Iranian government approved a plan Sunday to build 10 new uranium enrichment facilities, a dramatic expansion in defiance of U.N. demands it halt the program.

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A rescue ship righted a capsized ferry on Sunday, easing the work of those searching the submerged cabins for scores believed trapped inside more than a day after the boat sank in southern Bangladesh.

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Students aren't the only ones benefiting from the billions of new dollars Washington is spending on college aid for the poor.

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