There will be golf Thursday at Congressional Country Club at 7 a.m., and it will continue till nearly 8 in the evening. Some of it will be unsightly. The Blue Course has sand in its bunkers in which balls can turn into gophers, burying deep. It has tee boxes pushed up against the fences of the property, and a large golf course has grown simply humongous. It has grass shaved down to the length of Berber carpet, all the better to roll shots into waiting streams, ponds and beds of pine straw. Look out over the first hole — a pleasing, flowing dogleg left, not terribly long or overly daunting — and the 111th U.S. Open might seem to get off to a lovely, relaxing start. The relaxation, though, will last all of a shot or two, if that. The U.S. Open is about so many things — par, pain, rough, rage — that there is no mistaking it for the dozens of other easy-as-a-Sunday-morning events that fill up golf’s calendar from winter to fall. Read full article > >

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U.S. Open 2011: A tournament unlike any other

When Rory McIlroy touched down Tuesday night in Washington, with two days of preparation for the U.S. Open straight ahead, he hopped in a car, and headed to the freeway. And as he looked out into the evening, he considered something that wouldn’t have crossed his mind even 48 hours earlier: Man, he thought, this ride is smooth. “I’d been in a four-wheel-drive whatever-it-was for two days,” McIlroy said. “There’s no roads, no streetlights, no infrastructure at all. There’s nothing.” Monday morning, McIlroy flew to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on a goodwill mission for UNICEF. Since returning, he has changed his Twitter profile picture from a photo of him, as a toddler with a golf club, to one of him, as a smiling young man holding a smiling Haitian child. He has considered, over and over, what he saw a full 18 months after a devastating, 7.0-magnitude earthquake ravaged an already poverty-stricken country. Read full article > >

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Rory McIlroy puts U.S. Open prep on hold for ‘inspiring’ trip to earthquake-ravaged Haiti

NEW YORK — Katie Couric has worked in morning television, the evening news and now — thanks in part to Oprah Winfrey — will try out a daytime talk show. Winfrey’s exit from the market she dominated for much of the last two decades is providing Couric with an opening. The former “CBS Evening News” anchor and “Today” show host and ABC announced their long-anticipated deal on Monday, setting September 2012 for the premiere of Couric’s new show. “Oprah leaving made it seem like it was feasible,” Couric said. “because to go up against Oprah would be pretty terrifying. I don’t think anybody could really do that.” Read full article > >

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Couric makes move to daytime in post-Oprah landscape with ABC

Although her old network NBC reportedly made a strong effort to woo her, Katie Couric, the former anchor of The CBS Evening News, is set to announce that she will be joining ABC on Monday, reports The New York Times. Couric was in high demand, being…

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Katie Couric signed off the CBS Evening News for the final time Thursday night, ending the broadcast with a five-minute retrospective of her five years at the anchor desk. Couric thanked her staff and those who hired her, saying it has been a…

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On the evening of Sept. 8, Chamica Adams and a friend planned to attend a $10, open-bar happy hour at the District Lounge and Grille, a popular Adams Morgan hangout. So when Adams picked up her friend, according to her attorney, the two had worked out a plan that her friend would serve as the designated driver for the evening. Over the next 90 minutes, while partying at the bar and restaurant in the 2400 block of 18th Street NW, attorneys say Adams had three drinks: two Tequila Sunrises, a combination of tequila and orange juice, and a green zombie, OJ with four types of rum, including a splash of 151-proof rum. Read full article > >

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Md. woman gets 3 years in fatal Adams Morgan drunk driving crash

No surprises here: CBS News has announced that 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley will replace Katie Couric as anchor of the evening news, effective on June 6. The program will be renamed CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley. “He has the experience,…

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An explosion rocked a subway station during the evening rush hour in Belarus, killing at least two people. The explosion occurred in Minsk, at a station not far from the office of President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus since 1994, and…

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Some of Scott Pelley’s colleagues worry that becoming the anchor of the third-placed “CBS Evening News” would be a demotion.

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Front-Runner for CBS Anchor Is ‘60 Minutes’ Reporter

As Katie Couric and the network negotiate how to end her five-year run as anchor of “CBS Evening News,” interviews show that her hiring was part of a larger experiment to lift the newscast’s ratings.

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Couric’s Rocky Path to a Likely Parting With CBS

The British Government’s first evacuation flight carrying around 200 British citizens has left Egypt this evening.

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‘Exodus of foreigners’ from Egypt

In a rare media appearance — he even refused to talk to Time magazine’s managing editor through any means other than Skype — Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, sat down with 60 Minutes in a segment that was aired earlier this evening. We’ve collected all of the parts from CBS’ website here in one place for you to review. Part 1 Part 2 Extra Part 1 Extra Part 2 Extra Part 3

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The BBC’s Alex Bellfield, who is on holiday in Sharm el-Sheik, says he returned from dinner this evening to find his hotel barricaded and the mood of the Red Sea resort dramatically changed.

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‘Security lockdown’ at Red Sea hotel

China’s Ding Junhui looks to be heading for victory in snooker’s Masters at Wembley as he takes a 6-2 lead over Hong Kong’s Marco Fu into the evening session.

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Ding leading Fu in Masters final

What’s going on in Arkansas? Late in the evening on December 31st, thousands of black birds over the small town of Beebe started mysteriously falling out of the sky. “It was horrible; you could not even get down the road without running over hundreds….

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Weird Animal Deaths Plague Arkansas