Junior Seau, a legendary NFL linebacker, was found dead in his Oceanside, Calif., home this afternoon. Police were called to Seau’s beachfront home at about 9:35 a.m. PDT after a 911 call reported a shooting. His girlfriend, a police spokesman said, found Seau, 43, dead of a gunshot wound to the chest. A handgun was found next to the body, the spokesman said, and the shooting is being investigated as a suicide. Read full article > >

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Jeremy Lin scored 14 points, but he made just 6 of 16 shots, turned the ball over six times and was suffocated for most of the afternoon by an aggressive Celtics defense.

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Celtics 115, Knicks 111, OT: Pierce Helps Celtics Catch Knicks, Then Win in Overtime

We’ve been highlighting for several days now the significant chance that tomorrow’s storm tracks too far south to deliver much snow to the area, and as of this afternoon that continues to be the case. The models have mostly now locked in on a storm track that would give the D.C. area 1-2” inches of wet snow at most, with no snow (or at least no accumulating snow) a possibility as well, especially from D.C. to the north.

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Sunday snow probably won’t be much, but minor forecast changes still possible

At an event in Las Vegas this afternoon, Obama offered his most extensive rebuttal by far to the bogus GOP charge that the push for higher taxes on the wealthy is about “class warfare” and “envy.” The whole thing is worth a watch — the tone was not one of outrage, but one laced with a good deal of mockery and derision: Read full article > >

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Greg Sargent: Obama heaps mockery on Romney’s `envy’ charge

The Obama administration will announce this afternoon that it is rejecting a Canadian firm’s application for a permit to build and operate the Keystone XL pipeline , a massive project that would have stretched from Canada’s oil sands to refineries in Texas, according to administration officials who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak on the matter. Read full article > >

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Right around lunchtime this afternoon, my dog Andy the Barking Schnoodle lost his mind. That could only mean one thing: Someone was at the door. In the Rosenwald household, that’s usually a food delivery driver, and that driver is usually handing off pizza or Chinese. Read full article > >

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Having it your way at home: Taste-testing Burger King delivery

The Writers Guild of America announced its nominations for best original and adapted movie screenplays this afternoon, giving Oscar prognosticators a sense of the writing nominees that may wind up on Academy Award ballots later this month. Update: Actually, as Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter notes , many of the Oscar-eligible screenplays did not qualify for WGA consideration due to the Guild’s award guidelines. For example, films like “The Artist” and “Drive” are not eligible because they were not created by WGA members. So while some of the nominations below will likely dovetail with the Oscars, they may not be the best gauge of what will be recognized by the Academy. Read full article > >

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Writers Guild best screenplay nominations: ‘Bridesmaids,’ ‘Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ land nods

London Fire Brigade (LFB) deals with dozens of emergency Bonfire Night callouts during the afternoon and early evening.

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— Join me and Tarik El-Bashir now for a live Q&A . Alex Ovechkin spoke with reporters this afternoon about Coach Bruce Boudreau benching him late in regulation last night against the Ducks. A full transcript is below, with more from practice to come soon: Have you talked to Boudreau about being benched late against Anaheim? Read full article > >

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The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on the Mall was closed this afternoon after a “large group of protesters” tried to push past security guards and enter the museum, Smithsonian spokeswoman Linda St. John said. At least one demonstrator was pepper-sprayed by a museum guard in the confrontation, St. John said. Read full article > >

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I confess to being a fan of Nihal, a DJ and a radio presenter on BBC Asian Network, where he presents a phone-in show in the afternoon that deals with social and political issues. Sometimes I even speak with him live on air.

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I confess to being a fan of Nihal, a DJ and a radio presenter on BBC Asian Network, where he presents a phone-in show in the afternoon that deals with social and political issues. Sometimes I even speak with him live on air.

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(Muslim) Boy meets (Hindu) Girl and Other Bollywood Fantasies

That was an enlivened President Obama we saw earlier this evening — impassioned, indignant, non-professorial. And enlivened he should have been, because the American economy trembles on the brink of a double-dip recession, and the Republican opposition has been seized by an ideology that would erode what remains of the once-great American middle class. Not to mention, Obama’s own political future and that of his party are on the line as well. For the past week, the White House has been deliberately low-balling its estimates of what the plan the president unveiled tonight would actually include. When word started getting around this afternoon that this new stimulus would be set at $447 billion for the next year — a rate higher than the $787-billion-over-two-years stimulus that Congress enacted in 2009 — leaders of groups representing the Democratic base breathed a sigh of relief. The size and the substance of this new stimulus give Obama and his party the ability not only to rally many of his disenchanted core supporters but to reach out to voters in the middle of the political spectrum. Read full article > >

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New to the Washington area and its notorious commutes , Cheryl Rouland was eager to find the easiest way to get to work in Southeast Washington after moving to Manassas in June. She tried Virginia Railway Express . But while riding the train home from L’Enfant Station one day, Rouland received a $100 fine for fare evasion. She was dumbstruck, she said, because she had bought a roundtrip ticket that morning. Rouland was cited because she had failed to validate the afternoon portion of her “two-ride” ticket, which under state law is considered riding the train without payment. Read full article > >

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VRE cracks down on fare evasion, other offenses

“Kate Plus 8” has officially run its course. The reality show that began as “Jon and Kate Plus 8,” then morphed into “Kate Plus 8” after the messy divorce of Kate and Jon Gosselin, has been cancelled. TLC issued a statement this afternoon confirming that the show will end at the conclusion of its current season. “By the end of this season Kate Plus 8 will have hit the 150 episode mark (including Jon & Kate Plus 8); an exceptional milestone. TLC hopes to check in with Kate and the family periodically with specials in the future,” the statement read . Read full article > >

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