Reuters - Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito
on Thursday was headed for Senate confirmation despite a
protracted effort by combative Democrats to show he would move
the court to the right
E! Online - Gene Shalit doesn't typically respond to reviews of his reviews.
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AP - Hollywood has a term for the celebrity hoopla that precedes its big parties, such as the Academy Awards and Golden Globes. On the red carpet heading in, it's known
AP - The Army closed a criminal investigation of abuse allegations by an Iraqi detainee last year, finding no reason to believe his claims, even though no Americans involved in the case we
AP - Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court is gliding toward confirmation despite a week of hearings in which Democrats tried and failed to hobble his prospects with withering questio
AP - A report released Thursday that provided new details on the region's homeless population prompted Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to call the nation's second-largest city the nation'
AP - A very low calorie diet can help the heart age more slowly, according to researchers who released what they call the first-ever human study on the subject.]]>{br}{br}View the Enti
AP - Maryland has become the first state in the nation to require Wal-Mart to spend more on employee health care or pay the difference into the state's Medicaid fund. Similar laws may be comi
AP - Former "General Hospital" actress Kari Wuhrer sued ABC-TV on Thursday, contending her character was written out of the soap opera and she was fired for becoming pregnant.{br}{br}View the Enti
AP - The game was on the line, meaning it was Kobe Time. All indications were Kobe Bryant wasn't up to the task because of a sore right wrist. He wouldn't stand for that. Bryant scored h
Reuters - Iran threatened on Friday to halt snap
U.N. inspections of its nuclear facilities if it is taken to
the U.N. Security Council, and Britain said the council would
consider sanctions
Reuters - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's doctors
are worried that they have not yet been able to wake him from
an induced coma after he suffered a massive stroke, an Israeli
news Web si
Reuters - Saudi Arabia blamed unruly
pilgrims on Friday for the crush that killed at least 345
people in the haj, but many Muslims said better security could
have averted the worst disaster
Reuters - The European Union pledged $100 million
in aid to boost the global fight against bird flu on Friday and
Turkey stepped up the culling of birds to try to stop the
deadly vir
Reuters - Independent film studio Lionsgate,
buoyed by surging acclaim for its racial drama "Crash," said on
Thursday it has sent more than 130,000 DVD copies to Hollywood
insiders as part of
