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Stars begin arriving for Golden Globes

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 04:09 PM PST

Olivia Wilde shows off her sparkly gown at the Golden Globes.Stars of film and TV began descending on the red carpet Sunday for the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards, where the regal 1930s saga "The King's Speech" and the contemporary Web tale "The Social Network" contend for top honors.




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Former dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier returns to Haiti

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 03:55 PM PST

Exiled former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier returned unexpectedly to his Caribbean homeland on Sunday for the first time since he was forced out by a popular uprising and U.S. pressure in 1986.

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Ariz. shooting victim goes to hospital after arrest

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 02:40 PM PST

ABC News correspondent Christiane Amanpour, center, leads a town hall event at the St. Odilia Church in Tucson, Ariz., during a taping of "This Week" with Chistiane Amanpour on Saturday, Jan. 15. The event brought together members of the community and residents who were involved in the shooting in Tucson on Jan. 8, which claimed the lives of six people and wounded a number of others, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. One of the shooting victims, Eric Fuller, was arrested after yelling "you're dead" at the event. Grief-stricken after the Tucson supermarket massacre, shooting victim James Eric Fuller found comfort writing down the Declaration of Independence from memory while still recovering in the hospital.




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Late ejections mar Clippers' 99-92 win over Lakers

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 04:32 PM PST

Los Angeles Clippers guard Eric Gordon (10) passes the ball after being stopped by Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol (16), of Spain, and Lakers center Andrew Bynum (17) in the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas)Although the Clippers were just a few seconds away from finishing off the Lakers and their seven-game winning streak, Blake Griffin and Lamar Odom refused to stop grinding and digging for one last rebound.




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Starbucks to roll out biggest drink size yet

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 02:03 PM PST

Sometimes a "Venti" just isn't big enough, so Starbucks is rolling out the "Trenta," its own version of a Big Gulp.Starbucks will roll out its biggest drink size yet -- the 31-ounce "Trenta" -- in all its U.S. coffee shops by May 3, the company said Sunday.




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Live updates: Jets-Patriots

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 01:28 PM PST

Live updates: Follow along as New York, New England battle for a spot in the AFC championship game.

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Posted: 16 Jan 2011 01:28 PM PST

Sweet home Chicago as Bears blast Seahawks

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 03:55 PM PST

Bears running back Chester Taylor celebrates after his first-quarter rushing touchdown against the Seahawks on Sunday.The Bears' 35-24 dismantling of overmatched Seattle on Sunday sets up the biggest game in their 90-year series with the Packers. Chicago and Green Bay will play for the 182nd time next Sunday, but their first meeting for the NFC title.




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As shock subsides, pain sets in for Ariz. victims

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 04:28 PM PST

Shelby Garner places a flower on a makeshift memorial set up at the site of a mass shooting in front of the Safeway grocery store in the La Toscana Village parking lot as her sons Zach Gemmill, right, and Kole Gemmill, middle, look on. The supermarket re-opened on Saturday one week after U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head and remains in critical condition. Profound pain is settling in as victims of last weekend's shooting spree — and their tight-knit community — enter the toughest part of their healing process.




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Poll shows raw feelings easing over health law

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 09:57 AM PST

As lawmakers shaken by the shooting of a colleague return to the health care debate in Congress, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds raw feelings over President Barack Obama's overhaul have subsided.

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Live: Updates on Seahawks-Bears

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 09:50 AM PST

Live updates: Follow along as Seattle, Chicago battle in an NFC divisional playoff game.

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Rome prepares for 2 million pilgrims

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 07:51 AM PST

Pope John Paul IICrowd control experts were rushing to ready Rome for an estimated 2 million pilgrims for Pope John Paul II's beatification on May 1, when the city will be thronged with Easter week tourists.




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Early Sudan returns show big vote for secession

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 07:57 AM PST

An election official shows a pro independence ballot as votes are tallied at polling station in Juba, South Sudan, on Saturday. Results began trickling in immediately after polls closed Saturday evening. Almost everyone expects the south to vote overwhelmingly to break away from the north, cleaving one of Africa's larger nations in two. Southern Sudan's president offers a prayer of forgiveness for northern Sudan and the killings that occurred during a two-decade civil war, as the first results from a weeklong independence referendum show an overwhelming vote for secession.




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Giffords' condition upgraded to serious

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 04:17 PM PST

Astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, has remained by her bedside. Kelly is seen holding his wife's hand in the congresswoman's hospital room at University Medical Center on Sunday. The photo was made available by Giffords' office on Tuesday.The condition of a U.S. congresswoman wounded in a Jan. 8 assasination attempt improved to serious Sunday after procedures to remove a ventilator were successful.




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Scoop: Expect Golden night for 'King's Speech'

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 08:33 AM PST

Here are Courtney Hazlett's for Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards.Here are Courtney Hazlett's for Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards.




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Posted: 16 Jan 2011 08:33 AM PST

More apartments planned in contested Jerusalem

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 06:35 AM PST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office on Sunday. Israeli authorities said Sunday they are moving ahead with a new proposal to build 1,400 apartments in a contested part of Jerusalem, enraging Palestinians who denounced the plan as another settler land grab. Israeli authorities said Sunday they are moving ahead with a new proposal to build 1,400 apartments in a contested part of Jerusalem, enraging Palestinians who denounced the plan as another settler land grab.




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Attacks down almost 20 percent in Pakistan

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 06:53 AM PST

A Pakistani cameraman films burning oil tankers after gunmen attacked a terminal in Dera Murad Jamali southwest Pakistan on Saturday. A government official says gunmen in Pakistan's southwest have set ablaze 14 tankers carrying fuel for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. A driver also was wounded during the Saturday attack. The number of suicide bombings and other attacks in Pakistan declined nearly 20 percent last year as a result of Pakistani military operations and better surveillance by law enforcement agencies, a think tank says.




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For the Tea Party, the hard part begins

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 06:30 AM PST

Now that they're freshmen in a GOP-run House, the political movement's candidates are running smack into the traditions, partisan divisions and powerful competing interests that make it so hard to redirect the government.

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Break in rain allows Brazil to reach slide victims

Posted: 16 Jan 2011 01:50 PM PST

People use boards to cross over the water running along where the main street of Campo Grande neighbourhood used to be, after the devastation caused by the recent landslides of mud and rocks, in Teresopolis, some 100 km from Rio de Janiero, on Sunday. The Brazilian military took advantage of a break in the weather Sunday to send helicopters to remote areas near Rio hit by landslides and flooding that killed at least 610 people. A break in near-constant rain Sunday allowed Brazilian rescue helicopters to deliver desperately needed food and water to some of the neighborhoods buried under tons of earth in mudslides that killed more than 600 people.




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