With her first child.

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Anna Faris Announces Pregnancy

Notinrwildestdremz, one of 177 starving and neglected horses rescued from a farm in upstate New York in 2009, is entered for her first start on Sunday at Aqueduct.

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Filly Makes Ride From Neglect to the Racetrack

The Duchess of Cambridge carries out her first solo public engagement, attending a preview of a new Lucian Freud exhibition in central London.

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Kate attends Lucian Freud preview

Wins her first grand slam title.

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Azarenka Routs Sharapova in Final

Lori Berenson said authorities claimed she lacked an immigration document and blocked her from leaving, for what was to have been her first visit to the United States since her arrest.

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Lori Berenson Blocked at Airport in Peru

Serena Williams, a three-time champion, radiated joy Saturday night after advancing to her first Open final since 2008 with a 6-2, 6-4 victory against top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki.

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Serena Williams Storms Into U.S. Open Final

Alaska officials on Friday released thousands of pages of Sarah Palin’s emails from her first 21 months as governor, giving a fresh glimpse at the time when she rose to national prominence and became the GOP vice presidential nominee. (June 10) Read full article > >

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Alaska releases Sarah Palin e-mails

Anna Holmes is a contributing columnist for the Style section. She is the founder of Jezebel.com. This is her first column.

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Column: Anna Holmes on Donald Trump’s sexism

On her first visit to Washington Tuesday, Kelly O’Brien didn’t come to tour the nation’s capital, visit the monuments or observe a session of Congress.

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Fiancee of slain Giffords staffer speaks out emotionally on gun control

This ought to give the British pause: Eliza Manningham-Buller, who took over as director of MI5, U.K.’s counterintelligence agency, follwing the 9/11 attacks, said in her first television interview that the war on terror can’t be won by the military…

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Former MI5 Head: Let’s Talk to Al Qaeda

Hazel Stewart is sentenced to a minimum of 18 years behind bars for the murders of her first husband and former lover’s wife.

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NI killer jailed for minimum of 18 years

One more for Hollywood’s baby boom: Actress Alyssa Milano, former star of Who’s the Boss?, Charmed, and the new movie Hall Pass, is pregnant with her first child. Milano, 38, tweeted Tuesday she and husband David Bugliari “couldn’t be happier” after…

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Alyssa Milano Pregnant

Featuring Karen Russell on her first novel, “Swamplandia!”; and Lee Siegel on the dark side of the Internet.

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ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Karen Russell

Washington – The serious news, such as it was, out of President Obama’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast concerned the escalating violence in Egypt. The fun news was his description — and do I ever identify with this one — of his new personal prayer: “Lord, give me patience as I watch Malia go to her first dance, where there will be boys. Lord, have that skirt get longer as she travels to that dance.” read more

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In her first work of nonfiction in more than 20 years, Annie Proulx chronicles her efforts to build a house on a 640 acre preserve in Wyoming.

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Shelter Beneath an Open Sky