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WASHINGTON – In touting the resume of his Supreme Court nominee on Tuesday, President Obama held up Sonia Sotomayor’s role in ending the 1994-95 Major League Baseball strike, during which she issued a court injunction against team owners. “Some say that Judge Sotomayor saved baseball,” Obama said Tuesday, joking that …

So some dude at the United Nations filed a report calling for a trashing of our current counterterrorism policies. A new plan, he believes, should “abandon the ‘war paradigm'” and “enshrine the principles of gender-equality and non-discrimination.” And so he condemns security checks that “focus attention on male bombers who …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Pulled Pork The Senate has reportedly diverted to pet projects more than $2.5 billion intended to pay for fuel, ammunition, and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Independent research group the Center for Defense Information, says lawmakers …

At the risk of overdoing this ACORN story, we can now tell you that the Louisiana attorney general is reporting $5 million may have been embezzled from the organization. Previously we knew $1 million had been stolen, but now we learn the $5 million figure was allegedly discussed at a …

When it comes to empathy, I’ve lost all empathy — at least when it comes to its modern definition, which seems less like empathy and more like exclusion. Imagine original “empathy” as a giant club where everyone understands life; that no matter where you come from, there will always be …

Monday’s show was all about fear of the government: States, companies and individuals fear what happens when they take bailouts and stimulus money. We also all fear that the government is going to devalue our currency further, if and when the Fed is forced to buy even more Treasury bonds. …

We get that they’re twins, but we were still a little bummed out to hear that Hugh Hefner can’t tell two of his three girlfriends apart. Honestly, if you look quickly at a photo of Hef’s latest batch of ladies, it’s even a bit hard to distinguish 22-year-old Crystal Harris …

Some of the most innovative, interesting, and, well, strange tech has nothing to do with computing monoliths like Google or Microsoft. And it’s just around the corner. Here’s our list of the tech trends, products, and innovations that are available today — or coming online shortly — and how they’ll …

Will Smith: Suicide, Career And Otherwise | Celebs Pay Big Bucks For Inauguration Party | First Real Oscar Predictors | Madoff’s House Arrest; Susan Lucci’s Hands; Aimee Mann’s Xmas Plans; ‘reader’ Music Will Smith: Suicide, Career And Otherwise “Seven Pounds,” Will Smith’s holiday offering, is a relentlessly depressing, strange piece …

LOS ANGELES – We always knew Geri “Ginger Spice” Halliwell was cheeky, but we just weren’t aware quite how cheeky as the sexy songstress left very little to the imagination while attending the BAFTA British Academy Children’s Awards in London over the weekend. From the front Halliwell appeared every inch …