Before the last drops of rain from Hurricane Irene had dried, the attacks began on meteorologists for not accurately forecasting the exact strength of this weather system.

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Opinion: Don’t mock the weatherguy

Do Republicans really have a problem with Common appearing at the White House tonight? Does Fox News really think the cuddly Chicago rapper is “vile”? He’s appeared in Gap ads. He’s written children’s books. He starred in a movie with Tina Fey . Everybody loves Tina Fey, right? Oh, right. Sarah Palin doesn’t. Could that be why she tweeted in protest against Common’s involvement in Wednesday night’s poetry event at the White House? Last year, I made the exact opposite argument , explaining why the White House was overdue in formally recognizing hip-hop. I also suggested Common as a possible guest. Read full article > >

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Lists: Are the lyrics from Common’s five biggest hits really all that “vile”?

Each decade after tabulating the decennial census, the U.S. Census Bureau calculates the exact geographic mean center of the country’s population. No, really. According to government demographers, the center is determined “as the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of the United States would balance perfectly if all 308,745,538 residents counted in the 2010 Census were of identical weight.” Read full article > >

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Officials move physical center of the U.S. population farther west

You have to give Sarah Palin credit for visiting someplace the exact opposite of Alaska. The former vice-presidential candidate plans to visit Haiti this weekend as part of a larger attempt to get some foreign-policy cred. Palin will visit the island…

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Sarah Palin Will Visit Haiti

A man believed to be connected to the murder of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen shot and killed himself Wednesday night, as Beverly Hills police arrived with a search warrant, the Los Angeles Times reports. The name of the man and his exact connection…

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Chasen Murder Suspect Shoots Himself

An inquest into the deaths of patients who became infected during heart surgery hears the exact cause is still unknown.

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Heart infection cause ‘unknown’

President Obama is going from a chief of staff dubbed “Rahmbo” who once sent a dead fish to a political opponent to the exact opposite: a shy, self-effacing guy known for being a gentle boss and a cat lover.

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From Rahmbo to Rouse at White House

An autism charity calls on the Department of Health to identify the exact number of families currently waiting for a carer’s assessment.

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Needs of autism carers ‘ignored’

The discovery of the exact location of a stockade and dozens of personal artifacts belonging to its Union prisoners is one of the biggest archaeological Civil War finds in decades, federal and Georgia officials said Monday.

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Missing Civil War POW camp found