Hey, married people with babies: Do you really like all these shows about married people with babies? Does the comedization of poopy pants and sleepless nights somehow negate the toil of actual poopy pants, actual sleepless nights? One would think that after enough of that in real life, you’d want to watch anything but. Read full article > >

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NBC’s ‘Up All Night’: Formula-fed, but irresistibly cute

FLUSHING MEADOWS, N.Y.— U.S. Open officials on Monday fined Serena Williams $2,000 for “verbal abuse” of the chair umpire during Sunday’s women’s final against Australian Samantha Stosur. That translates to 0.0014 of the $1.4 million Williams earned for her runner-up performance, with Stosur defeating the three-time U.S. Open champion her first major title 6-2, 6-3. Read full article > >

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The Washington Post is launching a new way to present our blogs . Starting with The Fix by Chris Cillizza and The Wonkblog by Ezra Klein , our blogs will no longer simply be a series of updates and posts. They will now feature far more stories on each page, as well as more photos and videos, in a clean, engaging and informative design. This will be the new standard for our blogs and is a reaction to the ever-changing way people are consuming news online. Read full article > >

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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Jets ’ latest Super Bowl-or-bust season began in stirring fashion. Wide receiver Plaxico Burress had a touchdown catch as the Jets overcame a 14-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the Dallas Cowboys, 27-24 , here Sunday night at MetLife Stadium. “It’s just amazing,” Jets Coach Rex Ryan said. “It just doesn’t get much better than this, especially the way we got it done.” Read full article > >

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Jets vs. Cowboys: Mark Sanchez and New York rally past Tony Romo and Dallas

TOKYO — Asian stock markets fell sharply Monday, with sentiment soured by renewed anxiety about Europe’s debt problems and heavy Wall Street losses before the weekend. Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock average lost 2 percent at 8,562.47 as the index hit fresh six-month intraday lows. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index shed 3.2 percent to 19,231.69. In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 plunged 3.5 percent to 4,048.60. Read full article > >

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Asian stock markets start week with sharp losses, growing concerns about Europe

ROMULUS, Mich. — Police temporarily detained and questioned three passengers at Detroit’s Metropolitan Airport on Sunday after the crew of the Frontier Airlines flight from Denver reported suspicious activity on board, and NORAD sent two F-16 jets to shadow the flight until it landed safely, airline and federal officials said. Read full article > >

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TRIPOLI, Libya — One of fugitive leader Moammar Gaddafi’s sons escaped from Libya into Niger on Sunday, Libyan rebel leaders said, sparking anger among fighters stalled at three of Gaddafi’s last bastions of support. Saadi Gaddafi, a commander of Moammar Gaddafi’s special forces who was instrumental in trying to suppress opposition forces in the east of the country, crossed into a northern Niger border town, prompting Libya’s new rulers to call for his immediate extradition to Libya to stand trial. Read full article > >

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Ted Olson spent his 71st birthday Sunday at his family’s lakeside property in Northern Wisconsin. He was invited to ceremonies marking the anniversary of 9/11 but, after careful consideration, decided not to attend. “I had to balance between my feeling that I should be at the Pentagon and participate in these public events of memory and remembrance,” he told us Friday. “On the other hand, I also felt it’s so powerfully overwhelming that the best thing I could do is to celebrate my birthday, remember Barbara’s death and celebrate the remainder of our lives with family members away from Washington, D.C.” Read full article > >

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Ted Olson on loss and love in the decade since 9/11

When TV on the Radio stormed through “Wolf Like Me” at the Virgin Mobile FreeFest this weekend, the New York rock band seemed to summon all the tension, restlessness and unflinching hope of a tumultuous post-9/11 decade. An hour later, Deadmau5, the massively popular electro-house DJ famous for wearing an oversize, mouse-eared helmet, was dishing up escapist electronic dance music that felt as thick and sugary as funnel cake. Fans bounced and bobbled, some sporting mouse ears of their own. Read full article > >

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50,000 fans turn out for FreeFest

JERUSALEM — After a week in which Israel’s diplomats were forced out of Turkey and Egypt, for years its regional allies, and facing a possible United Nations vote recognizing a Palestinian state, the country is experiencing a deepening sense of siege. Televised scenes of Egyptian protesters storming the Israeli embassy in Cairo on Friday, and dramatic media accounts of the threat faced by six security men that were trapped for hours inside, summoned up for many Israelis nightmare scenarios of a lynch by an Arab mob. Read full article > >

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While singing 9/11 remembrance at the U.S. Open.

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New York’s 9th Congressional District isn’t the likeliest place for a national political referendum. Vice President Al Gore won it with 67 percent of the vote in 2000, and Barack Obama carried it by 11 percentage points eight years later. It has been held by a string of high-profile Democrats — including Sen. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and the late Geraldine Ferraro — for decades. Read full article > >

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Republican’s lead in N.Y. election for Weiner’s seat shows Democrats’ vulnerability

Political and religious leaders remembered 9/11 by expressing their commitment to democracy and the fight against terrorism, but some noted that the United States’ reputation had been hurt by the wars that followed.

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The Prince of Wales and prime minister David Cameron join relatives of the 67 Britons who died 10 years ago in the 9/11 attacks at a remembrance ceremony in London.

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WADI DINAR, Libya — Fierce resistance by Moammar Gadhafi loyalists entrenched in two strongholds has stalled the rebels’ final push for complete control over Libya. Three weeks after the fall of Tripoli appeared to herald the end of Libya’s brutal civil war, the protracted battle over the loyalist bastions of Bani Walid and Sirte, Gadhafi’s hometown, has dashed hopes of a speedy “declaration of liberation” that would start the clock ticking on a transition to democracy. Read full article > >

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Fierce resistance by Gadhafi loyalists slows Libyan fighters push for complete control