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Chris Matthews Not Running For Office
PerezHilton.com (subscribe) | 26 minutes ago | Entertainment
Residents of Pennsylvania have just received news that will anger some but make others very happy. After several months of speculation, MSNBC Hardball host, Chris Matthews, has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate. According to reports, Matthews told his producers in a meeting on Wednesday that he isn't seeking the Democratic nomination for the seat [...] -
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President-Elect Obama on the American Recovery and Reinvestment: "That work begins with...
Obama HQ (subscribe) | 31 minutes ago | Politics
Today, President-elect Barack Obama delivered a major new speech at George Mason University, where he made the case for urgent action on an American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan to address the current economic crisis. He offered up the outlines of a plan that includes both new policy and new approaches, with the goal of saving or creating over three million jobs while investing in priorities like... -
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Patrick Swayze: The Truth “2 Years To Live” – Barbara Walters’ Special (Videos)
Bumpshack (subscribe) | 1 hour ago | Entertainment
Actor Patrick Swayze has been fighting stage 4 pancreatic cancer for a year now. So he finally sat down with Barbara Walters for an exclusive interview to tell all he has been through and his hopes for the future. Patrick admits he was scared and angry when he was told about his diagnosis: “Yeah, I’m scared. [...] -
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The Dark Knight Nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award
Entertainment News - MovieWeb.com (subscribe) | 31 minutes ago | Entertainment
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LA judge hears bid to dismiss Lori Drew MySpace conviction
STLtoday.com (subscribe) | 2 hours ago | US
LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge in Los Angeles has heard arguments on a defense request to dismiss the conviction of a Missouri woman involved in a MySpace hoax on a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide.U.S. District Court Judge George Wu did not immediately rule after oral arguments Thursday. The judge, however, did set an April 30 sentencing date for Lori Drew, who was not present. Drew was found... -
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Charges: Stolen church cash paid for vasectomy
New York Newsday (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | US
An Indiana prosecutor says a former church official is charged with stealing more than $276,000 from church accounts and using some of the money to pay for a vasectomy.
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"I was going to withhold comment until the announcement of my signing with a new team,...
Talking Chop (subscribe) | 40 minutes ago | Sports
"I was going to withhold comment until the announcement of my signing with a new team, but I now feel the need to clear up any misconceptions and inaccuracies about the contract negotiations between myself and the Atlanta Braves," [John] Smoltz said. "There were large discrepancies between the offer from the Braves and offers from other teams." Smoltz, Braves differ on contract offer | MLB.com I guess... -
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No Purple Heart For Soldiers With PTSD
ABC News (subscribe) | 42 minutes ago | Politics
The Pentagon still assures troops that it takes post-traumatic stress seriously. -
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There Once Was Man Named Dell, Who Told 1,900 Workers “Go To Hell”…
Digital Daily - All Things Digital (subscribe) | 5 hours ago | World
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Lenovo Cuts 2,500 Jobs in Reorganization
PC Mag (subscribe) | 37 minutes ago | Technology
Lenovo, the world's fourth-ranked PC maker, said it will cut 2,500 jobs as part of a global restructuring that will see the PC maker consolidate its Asia-Pacific operations. The company's stock price plunged overseas as a result. The reason? Poor computer sales, a possible theme for the fourth quarter. -
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Key House Member Opposes CNN's Gupta for Surgeon General
Fox News (subscribe) | 43 minutes ago | Politics
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., urged Democrats to sign onto a letter to President-elect Barack Obama urging him not to nominate Gupta, who is CNN's chief medical correspondent. - 5 Vote!
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Sony Ericsson announces two new phones for North America: C510a and W508a
The Boy Genius Report (subscribe) | 8 hours ago | Technology
Yesterday Sony Ericsson announced two new devices for the North American market - the C510a Cyber-shot handset and the W508a Walkman phone. Both feature quad-band EDGE and tri-band 3G in addition to video calling. Apart from their obvious differences in terms of music phone versus camera phone, both phones are easily distinguished by their form [...] -
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Microsoft Releases Tag, Its Second iPhone Application
TechCrunch (subscribe) | 7 hours ago | Technology
At CES, Microsoft has introduced its second iPhone app after dipping its toe with the release of Seadragon Mobile last month. The name of the application is Microsoft Tag , and it enables users to instantly access mobile content, videos, music, contact information, maps, social networks, promotions, etc. simply by pointing the device's camera to a special tag. If this makes you think about the principle... -
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Nova Mobile to Present Its SideArm 2 UMPC Handheld Mobile Computer at 2009 CES
Extra Technology News (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
Nova Mobile Systems will present its SideArm 2 UMPC Handheld Mobile Computer at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Nevada. The device is an always on Ultra Mobile PC providing full computing and cellular capabilities in a lightweight mobile computing form factor. The key for us is to provide a real PC that can be used anywhere and eliminate technical redundancy in user devices. The SideArm... -
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It's Official: Spiderman in the Tank for Obama
Debbie Schlussel (subscribe) | 18 hours ago | Other
By Debbie Schlussel Once comic books were against Nazis and Hitler and were very up front in supporting America's fight against them. But those days are over. Both DC and Marvel Comics long ago embraced left-wing politics, and when it came to the war on terror, they were for the most part silent. Fighting "global warming" and on behalf of other mythical left-wing creations was far more important (as... -
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Motorola SURF A3100 video (and pictorial) hands-on
Engadget (subscribe) | 12 hours ago | Technology
Like the Curve 8900 , it turns out that Motorola's SURF is a device that kinda needs to be seen in the flesh to be fully appreciated. In light of TouchFLO and its endless competitors, the skin Moto's developed for this thing -- while tasteful and seemingly finger-friendly -- really isn't anything to get terribly excited about, but it does an adequate job of making the superficial surface of Windows... -
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Karl Rove’s Factually Challenged Housing Revisionism
The Big Picture (subscribe) | 9 hours ago | Politics
As the saying goes, you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. The instant historical revisionism by Karl Rove in today’s WSJ — mythmaking writ large — contains an egregious combination of false statements, crucial omissions and misleading assertions. A few thoughts are required to correct Rove’s attempt to create a false [...]
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Pharos Traveller 137 hands-on
Engadget (subscribe) | 10 hours ago | Technology
Pharos' Traveller 137 is at CES and as far as well packed Windows Mobile sets go, it is pretty much at the top of the heap. We won't bore you with the specs again , but if there's anything you want in a phone, it's likely already in there. Follow the read link to get a closer look at the world's first unlocked AWS 3G handset over at Engadget Mobile. Filed under: Cellphones , CES Pharos Traveller 137... -
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Angela Glover Blackwell: A Recovery Package for All?
The Huffington Post (subscribe) | 3 hours ago | Election 2008
Grim, yet hopeful. Constrained, yet honest. President-elect Obama's gripping recovery press conference today promised, in his words, a "clean break from a troubled past." Let's... -
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AOL Exec Kevin Conroy Out After Product Empire Dismantled
TechCrunch (subscribe) | yesterday | Technology
AOL's EVP of Products and Marketing Kevin Conroy is leaving to take a new position at Univision. This isn't much of a surprise - we speculated on his future back in July when he announced ( internally ) the shuttering of four of his products (Xdrive, AOL Pictures, Bluestring and MyMobile). That still left him with AOL Mail, MYAOL, the AOL client, Userplane and Truveo, among others. But each of those... -
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Fall Out Boy Blender Magazine Feb. 2009 Article “Sensational B.S.”
The PopCrunch Show (subscribe) | 6 hours ago | Music
Oh dear. The rockers of Fall Out Boy are none to pleased with their buzzed-about cover story in the February 2009 issue of Blender, on newsstands January 13. “The Blender article is pure bullshit,” FOB drummer Andy Hurley wrote on his Twitter account late Tuesday. “It’s sensationalist bullshit made up to sell a story. It’s [full [...] -
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Sources: Gupta approached for surgeon general's post
Political Ticker (subscribe) | 01/06/2009 | Politics
Gupta is a former White House fellow. (CNN) – Chief CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has been approached by the Obama administration about the U.S. surgeon general's post, according to sources inside the transition and at CNN. The transition team is impressed with the combination of Gupta's past government experience, as a White House [...] -
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Lindsay and Sam have split
The Blemish (subscribe) | 4 hours ago | Celebrity
Despite earlier denials via MySpace by Lindsay Lohan, TMZ insists she and Samantha Ronson have split. Today they’re going into more detail and report that Lindsay moved out of Sam’s place and is living with her manager, Jen. There could be a myriad of reasons for this break-up, but I think the main one is Lindsay ... - see all discussions
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