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The talking heads on TV news are having a field day with the news of the Republican party providing $150,000 for clothing for vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

They also report that there is no wrongdoing here, no laws broken and so on.

By this time, most of us have heard of what Barack Obama raised dollar-wise in t...

CHICAGO (AP) — Detectives believe the 7-year-old nephew of Jennifer Hudson was probably shot in the sport-utility vehicle where his body was later found, a police official said Thursday.

Officials think Julian King was alive when he left the house where his uncle and grandmother were killed last week, said the official, who was not authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke ...

A 61-year-old former University of Washington staff member doused himself with gasoline and set himself ablaze Thursday in the midst of a crowded campus plaza. He died a short time later.

The man, who was not immediately identified, died shortly after he was brought to Harborview Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg-Hanson said.

"We do not know why he did it," said UW As...

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SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. - Supporters of Senators Barack Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr. often look like Benetton-colored billboards, decked out for their candidates in Obama-Biden hats, T-shirts and buttons. Supporters of Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin like logo merchandise, too, but tend more toward pompoms (yes, pompoms), homemade signs ("Pitbulls 4 Freedom"), flag pins and chest paint.

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Her character lives in Scotland, and the Neapolitan would not only have to memorize her lines, but deliver them in a Scottish accent.

"I had no idea," she says. "I had never had to do one before. It was the thing that (initially) scared me away from auditioning. I walked out saying, 'I've never done a Scottish accent before!'"

So she did what she thought was logical: she went out...

Kohl's Corp. is stepping up marketing plans for the holidays with earlier ads, extended hours and more sales events in an effort to get shoppers in the stores before Thanksgiving.

"We're focused on stretching people's budgets," Chief Executive Officer Kevin Mansell said in an interview Tuesday. "We're trying to reflect the economic reality our customers are facing."

This is the ...