LOS ANGELES – Ellen DeGeneres is dancing off “American Idol” after one season, leaving Fox’s hit show with two vacancies on its judging panel. If the singing contest intends to revamp itself to stem a ratings slide, it has the opportunity to bring in two new faces for season 10 in January. Fox has...
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The $104 monthly MetroCard moved one step closer to reality on Wednesday as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted to start the process of implementing a sprawling set of fare increases on the region’s buses, trains and bridges. By Jan. 1, railroad commuters and E-ZPass users who cross the authority’s bridges and tunnels would pay...
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WASHINGTON – Charlene Cotton will talk to anyone about sex. Several days a week she stands behind a table decorated with a bowl of flavored condoms and safer sex pamphlets, calling to women passing on the street, “Come check out my table. Don’t be scared.” She asks: “Have you heard of the female condom?”...
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Chicago deathcore heavyweights, OCEANO will be hitting the road once again as part of the Over The Limit Tour. Ever the road warriors, this will not be a typical tour for OCEANO. It will mark their first major North American co-headlining tour alongside AS BLOOD RUNS BLACK. The tour will also act as a...
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Running back Bryce Brown has left the University of Tennessee without leaving any closure behind. “Bryce left town without a face-to-face request (with UT football coach Derek Dooley) for a transfer,” a school official told the News Sentinel on Tuesday evening. “There’s still no news on where he wants to go.” There has been...
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Los Angeles Angels scratched right-hander Joel Pineiro with a muscle strain just moments before he was scheduled to start Wednesday against the Boston Red Sox. Pineiro strained an oblique muscle on his left side while warming up in the bullpen before the series finale. Veteran Angels reliever Scot Shields made...
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WASHINGTON — The US Congress voted Wednesday to reduce sentencing disparities for offenders caught with crack cocaine versus the drug in powder form, a gap blamed for disproportionate jailing of black Americans. The US House of Representatives, by voice vote, approved legislation the Senate passed in March, sending the measure to President Barack Obama...
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Less than one month after ending furloughs for about 200,000 state workers, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this morning brought back a scaled-down version of the policy, effective Sunday. The governor made the decision this week after Controller John Chiang said that unless lawmakers enacted a budget soon, the state’s cash would go into the red...
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UK Prime Minister David Cameron today sparked a furious diplomatic row with Islamabad after accusing elements of the Pakistani state of promoting the export of terrorism. In the strongest British criticism of Pakistan so far, the prime minister warned Islamabad it could no longer “look both ways” by tolerating terrorism while demanding respect as...
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ISTANBUL—Iran has pledged to stop enriching uranium to the higher grade needed for a medical research reactor if world powers agree to a fuel-swap deal it outlined earlier this year with Turkey and Brazil, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Wednesday. The offer marks the latest in an international tug-of-war over the nuclear ambitions...
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