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The Muppets fight hunger with an unlikely partner

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What's inside "The Human Centipede"?

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When mourning goes viral

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Martin Sheen: "Everything's being ripped away"

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The class war over a $39,000 backpack

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The Beltway media's creepiest fetish

How did compromise come to mean Obama must give the GOP everything it wants? Your White House press corps at work

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The class war over a $39,000 backpack

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Apple says company co-founder Steve Jobs has died

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Let's help the NYPD cut costs

If policing Occupy Wall Street is too expensive, why not save money by not illegally spying on Muslims?

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"American Horror Story" prizes camp over suspense

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Anti-equality groups fighting to keep donors anonymous in Minnesota

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The art of winning by losing

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Is circumcision good for your health?

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Why Bob Dylan won't win the Nobel Prize

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Karl Rove begins general election campaign without pesky candidate

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George Harrison's inner light

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Johnny Depp: Okay, photographs aren't like rape

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Unions, Democrats and Occupy Wall Street

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The logic of the media's Christie fixation

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Please don't bring "Arrested Development" back

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The carnage Chris Christie leaves behind

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Apple unveils faster, more powerful iPhone

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Christie: "Now is not my time" for White House bid

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Right-wing backlash against Occupy Wall St. begins

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Wait, who cares about Hank Williams Jr.'s politics?

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The Republican no one wants to love

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Jon Stewart mulls al-Awlaki assassination

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Kurt Sutter's family values

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Why the book's future never happened

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Lawyers seek docs on NYPD unit that eyed Muslims

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Italy appeals court clears Knox of murder

American to be released after nearly four years in Italian prison

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Why Amanda Knox should thank the Italian courts

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Breitbart shock: Obama was in same place at same time as New Black Panthers

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