Why Terrence Howard acted weird at the Oscars
The actor thought he had it together, until he noticed one powerful celeb watching him from the audience. 'I choked!' »
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Michael Jordan, Mark Cuban Among Top 19 Richest People in Sports – But Who Is No. 1?
If you think rising ticket prices for live sporting events and concession stand costs have gotten out of control, here are 19 reasons why.
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South Africa’s Madeleine McCann Is Found
As a 3-day-old infant, Zephany Nurse was snatched from a Cape Town hospital. Now she has been reunited with her family—after befriending her biological sister at school.
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Here’s the racist Obama joke the DOJ reportedly uncovered in its Ferguson investigation
In a report that's expected to be released in full this week, the Justice Department concluded that Ferguson, Missouri, police relied on tickets from racially skewed traffic stops of African Americans to help balance the city's budget, and used excessive force against the city's black residents, according to the New York Times, the Associated Press, and other news outlets. An unnamed source told NPR that the report contains at least one more racist quip found in an email between city officials.
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Argentina says the 'vultures' circling overhead have multiplied, and they're asking for billions
Investors in Argentina known as "me too"...
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Evergreen Park Little League coach arrested
Chris Janes, the Evergreen Park Little League coach who brought forward the residency allegations against Jackie Robinson West, was arrested Monday night for disorderly conduct and assault.
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Las Vegas hospital accidentally sends miscarried fetuses to laundry
(Reuters) - A Las Vegas hospital accidentally sent twin miscarried fetuses wrapped in linen to a commercial laundry facility on Tuesday, officials said. Henderson Police Department spokeswoman Kathleen Richards said that officers were called at around 10 a.m. local time by laundry company Angelica after workers discovered the fetuses. Richards said the remains were delivered accidentally by Spring Valley Hospital Medical Center. The incident was not considered suspicious, Richards said, but added that the Clark County Coroner's Office would investigate.
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‘Independence Day 2′ Casts Jessie Usher as Lead
Fox has cast “Survivor’s Remorse” star Jessie Usher in “Independence Day 2″ as the lead. He’s the first cast member attached to the sequel. Usher will portray the son of Will Smith’s Steven Hiller character from the 1996 original. Smith is not expected to return. Director Roland Emmerich will return to helm “Independence Day 2,”... Read more »
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Some initial reactions like the Shady McCoy trade for the Eagles
Shocking news broke on Tuesday night as ESPN's Adam Schefter reported that the Philadelphia Eagles have traded running back Shady McCoy to the Buffalo Bills for former Oregon Duck linebackerKiko Alonso. This will obviously take some time to process but here are a few immediate reactions that view it as a positive for the Eagles, despite losing one of the best running backs in all of football. Initial thought: Eagles got the far better end of this trade. Chip Kelly trading LeSean McCoy for Kiko Alonso shows how much Chip loves his Oregon guys.
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Oil pro Andy Hall: Next move will surprise market
Oil trader Andy Hall has closed out his bearish bets on oil and is predicting a price recovery in crude sooner than many analysts expect.
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Is the Mysterious Light on This Dwarf Planet a Sign of Life?
A NASA spacecraft has detected strange bright spots on the surface of Ceres, the dwarf planet it is expected to begin orbiting on Friday. Researchers, some of whom have worked on the $473 million Dawn mission for more than a decade, say they’re surprised by the strange brightness from Ceres’s otherwise highly cratered, "dark surface of fairly primitive composition," according to Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator of the Dawn mission. It is probably unique in the solar system. NASA’s hope in dispatching Dawn to Ceres—and to the asteroid Vesta, which it visited previously—is to gain insight into the origin of the solar system.
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The Chevy Colorado Proves Bigger Isn’t Always Better: Review
Over the last decade, manufacturers declared that small trucks no longer served a purpose; their customers only wanted full size pickups. They believed people who wanted a truck needed it to be able to haul more, tow more, and fit a small cadre of people in the back seats. Automakers thought they needed something that
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Cubs' scramble on Wrigley Field hits bump when mayor balks
The Chicago Cubs' scramble to get as much of a massive renovation of Wrigley Field done before next month's opening day hit a bump Tuesday when Mayor Rahm Emanuel dashed the team's hopes of winning city approval to keep construction crews working around the clock. ''The city ordinance is clear that you can't have 24-hour building,'' the mayor told reporters, who also made a point of saying that whatever the Cubs told the media about extending the hours of construction, they had not raised the issue with him.
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Homer Simpson Had A Head Start On The Higgs Boson
Maybe Homer Simpson only acts dumb. How else to explain a 1998 episode of The Simpsons in which a guy who usually comes across as a doughnut-eating doofus stands at a chalkboard bearing a complex equation that prefigures the discovery of the Higgs boson.“That equation predicts the mass of the Higgs boson” Simon Singh, author of the 2013...
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Turmeric’s Health Benefits and 8 Ways to Get the Spice in Your Life
Turmeric is popping up as a treatment for many ailments. Start incorporating the yellow spice into your diet with these 8 recipes; your brain will thank you!
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Nick Gordon Says Bobbi Kristina Brown’s “Vitals Are Good,” Blasts Bobby Brown
The feud between Bobbi Kristina Brown‘s boyfriend, Nick Gordon, and her father, Bobby Brown, continues as she lies in a coma fighting for her life. On Tuesday, Gordon took to Twitter once again to blast his girlfriend’s dad for not caring for the Bobbi Kristina before she was hospitalized, accusing Bobby of being a “just a center fold” and only being involved in her life now that there’s media coverage.
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Target is firing thousands of workers
Target is cutting thousands of jobs within the...
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Pot growers convicted on fed count in state where it's legal
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Three people were found guilty Tuesday of growing marijuana, but they also were exonerated of more serious charges in a widely-watched federal drug case in a state where medical and recreational marijuana is legal.
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The 15-Minute Workout You Can Do Anywhere
This workout builds cardiovascular and muscular strength in one intense 15-minute routine. Added bonus: It burns calories faster than your average cardio routine, too.
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Woman Sues Restaurant for Ruining Her Valentine's Day, Seeks $100,000 in Damages
The Oregonian reports that a women who dined alone on Valentine's Day has filed a $100,000 lawsuit against Enzo's Caffe Italiano on Northeast Alberta for rude service. The article says Kathleen Hampton, who is representing herself, had made a reservation for two but her husband "was still full from lunch and decided not to go." Hampton went anyway, and claims she was forced to wait while couples who arrived after her were seated first. "That was the final straw," Hampton writes in the lawsuit.
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Pro photographers deliver the final word on which smartphone has the best camera
Everyone wants their smartphone to have a killer camera and megapixel counts don’t tell the entire story by any stretch of the imagination. PhoneArena draws our attention to a new survey of photography experts conducted by Teleguru.pl that really looks like the final word on smartphone camera quality for this generation of devices. FROM EARLIER: Benchmark tests show Galaxy S6 performance crushes everything else on the market Anyone who’s followed these kinds of surveys in the past will not be surprised to learn that the Galaxy Note 4 generally bested its rivals in most of the criteria measured, although the iPhone 6 and the older Lumia 1020 from 2013 performed admirably in many conditions as well. Overall, the Note 4 came out on top
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