The bookend plays of the Washington Redskins’ most recent loss to the New England Patriots also could bracket their season. In the first quarter, quarterback Rex Grossman dropped back to pass in his own end zone, was drilled by New England defensive end Andre Carter, dropped the football and yielded a touchdown. In the fourth quarter, trailing by just seven points, Grossman looked for veteran wide receiver Santana Moss inside the Patriots 5-yard line. The ball hit Moss in the hands, popped out the other side, and was intercepted. Read full article > >

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NBC has signed shock jock Howard Stern to replace Piers Morgan on its summer talent competition series, “America’s Got Talent,” as the network struggles to climb out of the fourth-place ratings hole in which it has been mired for years. Yes, the network that’s afraid of the word “vodka” — more on that later — has hired the poster child of raunchy language and programming. Read full article > >

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Shock jock Howard Stern is the new Piers Morgan on NBC’s competition series “America’s Got Talent,” as the network struggles to climb out of the fourth-place ratings hole in which it has been mired for years. NBC stepped on its own Golden Globe Awards nominations announcement Thursday morning when it announced literally minutes later that it had closed a deal for Stern to serve as the new judge on the top-rated summer alternative series — one of few bright spots on NBC’s primetime landscape. Read full article > >

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The Washington Redskins couldn’t find a way to carry last week’s strong showing into a second straight game and fumbled away a 34-19 loss to the New York Jets at FedEx Field Sunday. The Redskins teased the mostly burgundy-clad crowd of 74,121 by opening the game with an authoritative drive and holding a lead until late in the fourth quarter. Read full article > >

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Redskins vs. Jets: Washington gives up three fourth-quarter touchdowns in 34-19 loss

Lakia McDuffie was sleeping in her fourth-floor apartment at Wingate Towers & Gardens in Southwest Washington when a light flooding into her bedroom woke her up. Then her windows rattled. She wondered what was going on. It was a plane landing at Reagan National Airport . Since that night in the spring, incoming airliners have regularly flown by her building at late hours, McDuffie said. Read full article > >

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BALTIMORE — John Harbaugh aggressively pumped his fist when Joe Flacco converted a big third-down throw. He jumped on the back of linebacker Jameel McClain as he ran off the field after a key sack in the fourth quarter, and he gave several of his players hugs after receiving the first of two celebratory Gatorade baths. Read full article > >

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Baltimore Ravens top San Francisco 49ers in the Harbaugh bowl

BALTIMORE — John Harbaugh aggressively pumped his fist when Joe Flacco converted a big third-down throw. He jumped on the back of linebacker Jameel McClain as he ran off the field after a key sack in the fourth quarter, and he gave several of his players hugs after receiving the first of two celebratory Gatorade baths. Read full article > >

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Baltimore Ravens top San Francisco 49ers in the Harbaugh bowl

If the agreement holds up, it would make President Ali Abdullah Saleh the fourth leader forced from power in the uprisings that have shaken the Middle East and North Africa.

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How does a song by an iconic musician get lost and then found? Here’s one way. One afternoon in 1997, an emerging 27-year-old singer-songwriter named Elliott Smith performed at WMUC-FM , the student run radio station at the University of Maryland, College Park. The station regularly hosted punk and indie acts on its live-in-the-studio Third Rail Radio program and Smith’s performance wasn’t anything out of the ordinary — just him and his guitar, playing around 10 songs in WMUC’s unadorned recording studio on the fourth floor of South Campus Dining Hall. Read full article > >

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Elliott Smith: “New” song from 1997 WMUC session unearthed

Mad Max director George Miller confirms production on the fourth film has moved out of Australia due to heavy rain earlier this year.

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Mad Max ‘foiled by flower garden’

Philadelphia’s backup quarterback, Vince Young, threw three interceptions, but he also fired the decisive touchdown pass in the fourth quarter.

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WASHINGTON — The number of people applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level since early April, a sign that layoffs are easing and hiring may pick up. Weekly applications dropped by 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 388,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. It was the fourth decline in five weeks. Read full article > >

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WASHINGTON — Americans spent more on autos, electronics and building supplies in October. The fifth straight monthly gain in retail sales suggests the economy maintained solid growth at the start of the fourth quarter. Retail sales increased 0.5 percent, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. Healthy auto sales helped. But even without them, sales rose 0.6 percent — the best showing since March. Read full article > >

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Retail sales rose 0.5 percent in October, helped by stronger demand for autos and electronics

As the fourth quarter started Sunday at FedEx Field, with the Washington Redskins ’ offense and the third quarterback of the Mike Shanahan era struggling mightily, the burgundy and gold clad crowd started to boo, and one fan in earshot of the press box yelled: “We want Norv Turner back!” On the same day that the Redskins celebrated their annual “Homecoming Game,” and introduced stars of years past during the pre-game celebration, the announced crowd of 78,032 found itself left wanting again. There was nothing even close to the glory Joe Gibbs directed in his initial reign as head coach, or the mediocre results Turner oversaw. Sunday’s 19-11 loss to the San Francisco 49ers featured a performance much uglier than the score indicated. Read full article > >

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Redskins vs. 49ers: Offense struggles again as Washington loses, 19-11

It took three overtimes, but the fourth-ranked Cardinal finally prevailed over a tenacious Southern California team.

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