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President Obama will seek to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term, according to an administration official. LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — One major contender’s chances at Oscar gold may be damaged due to its sensitive subject matter.
A U.S. Army medic was sentenced Friday to life in prison with the possibility of parole after being convicted of murdering four detainees in Iraq, a U.S. military spokesman in Germany said
On a winter evening in early 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first black performer to win an Oscar, a best supporting actress honor for her performance as Mammy, the servant in "Gone With the Wind." She accepted her award at the Academy Awards ceremony at the Coconut Grove, a nightclub in Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel, where she was seated in the segregated section at the rear of the room. Though her win was played as a sign of progress for black actors in America — “Not only was she the first of her race to receive an Award, but she was also the first Negro ever to sit at an Academy banquet,” said Daily Variety, according to Mason Wiley and Damien Bona’s indispensable “Inside Oscar” — her role was poorly received by much of the black community.
A group of Heath Ledger fans have taken their reverence for the late "The Dark Knight" star to a whole new level.
Emmanuel Adebayor was Tuesday crowned African football player of the year. The Arsenal striker saw off strong competition from Al Ahly’s Egyptian playmaker Mohamed Aboutrika and Chelsea’s Ghanaian midfielder Michael Essien to become the first ever player from Togo to pick up the award.
Coldplay won the first of the Grammy Awards’ big three honors Sunday evening, taking home song of the year — a songwriters’ honor — for "Viva La Vida," from the band’s album of the same name. “Thank you and sorry to Sir Paul McCartney for blatantly recycling the ‘Sgt