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Last week President Obama, tired of waiting for Congress to pass the DREAM Act, sort of enacted DREAM Lite himself, temporarily allowing young illegal immigrants who’d come here as kids off the deport
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It’s war between Condé Nast and former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld. Sources say Condé’s International chairman Jonathan Newhouse has been ordering photographers…
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After two seasons of questions, the AMC drama finally answered the biggest one of all Sunday night, and the actor whose character committed the crime opens up to THR after the big reveal.
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Some fear the new guidance from the Senate Select Committee on Ethics casts too broad a net.
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“Amazon’s markup of digital delivery to indie authors is ~129,000%” – author Andrew Hyde reviews the take for the most popular digital publishing platforms
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“We are sorry this happened and will have it removed from any future DVD production,” the premium cable network says of a Season 1 scene that featured the 43rd president’s likeness.
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Conservatives online lash out at the former governor, calling him a Republican in name only.
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Twitter’s court stand is winning the respect of its followers.
Lawyers for the social-media site appeared in Manhattan criminal court yesterday to challenge a court order to turn over the tweets of a user being prosecuted as part of an Occupy Wall Street march last year.
Manhattan District Attorney…
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This Tinseltown tussle would be a hit on the big screen.
Two of Hollywood’s biggest power players — producer Peter Chernin and super-agent Ari Emanuel — have fallen out after a battle over money and turf.
The heavy hitters are at odds, executives close to them say, because just two weeks…
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Cat Marnell, the drug-addicted beauty columnist for Jane Pratt’s Web site xoJane.com, has parted ways from the site after refusing to get clean…
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