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Judges save Matt Giraud on ‘American Idol’ while Jennifer Hudson returns It was an “American Idol” first. The night someone was to be voted off… someone got saved instead. Matt Giraud, who viewers ultimately decided was not worthy of the competition, was given a second chance by the foursome of chatty “Idol” judges Wednesday night. […]
President Obama touted his tax cut Wednesday as an important component of his plan to right the U.S. economy and put working families on a more prosperous path. “My administration has taken far-reaching action to give tax cuts to the Americans who need them while jump-starting growth and job creation in the process,” Obama said
One thing I’ve learned about me after a lot of Googling myself is that most of my sentences contain the words I, me and myself. So when I found out that Dr. Drew Pinsky had given a test to 200 celebrities to find out if they’re more narcissistic than everyone else, I wanted to take the test too
Penny Ireland’s family is so scattered around the world that Facebook, the popular social networking site, has become the family’s No. 1 way to communicate. “We call it our living room,” the 56-year-old mother said by phone from her home in Houston, Texas.
The news that one of America’s TV icons is suffering from cancer brought sadness. Learning the type of cancer she had made some squirm. Former “Charlie’s Angels” actress Farrah Fawcett, 62, was hospitalized this week
U.S. senators from New York have announced legislation that would grant posthumous honorary citizenship to victims of last week’s shooting rampage in Binghamton, New York
Dinara Safina will go to the top of the world rankings in place of Serena Williams after the American’s shock defeat at a tournament in Spain, the WTA announced on its official Web site www.sonyericssonwtatour.com. Williams went down 6-4 3-6 6-1 to Klara Zakopalova at the Andalucia Open in Marbella which means the Russian will go to world number one in the ranking lists released on April 20. Safina is only the second Russian woman, after Maria Sharapova, to claim the top spot and it will match the achievement of her brother Marat who was the top men’s player in the world in 2000
The gunman who killed 13 people at an immigrant services center fired 98 shots in a minute or so, the police chief in Binghamton, New York, said Wednesday. Jiverly Wong, a 41-year-old Vietnamese immigrant from an ethnic Chinese family, fired 87 shots from a 9 mm pistol and 11 shots from a .45-caliber handgun, Chief Joseph Zikuski told CNN.
The Soyuz spacecraft landed back in Kazakhstan early Wednesday after a six-month trip to the International Space Station — carrying a Russian, an American and a space tourist. “Search groups have reported that the spacecraft landed within a planned area
The White House released this transcript of President Obama’s remarks to U.S. troops Tuesday at Al Faw Palace — Camp Victory — in Baghdad, Iraq. THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.