For the third time in as many years, Sunday’s Super Bowl has been crowned the most-watched television broadcast ever. An estimated 111.3 million people watched the New York Giants defeat the New England Patriots, 21-17, Nielsen said Monday. Read full article > >

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TAIPEI, TAIWAN: Taiwan’s incumbent president Ma Ying-jeou won re-election Saturday, a result that will delight China and calm worries in Washington that this island of 23 million people might veer away from a policy of rapprochement with its giant neighbor. Read full article > >

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Last Thanksgiving Day, when 31.9 million people watched the New Orleans Saints play the Dallas Cowboys, 10.75 million of them were women. Overall, 44 percent of the National Football League’s fans are women. If you follow the sport, this is no revelation. The football widow is an anachronism; girls and women populate stadiums and sports bars, and have for years. In a recent Washington Post survey of D.C. sports fans , 53 percent of this area’s women said they care about the NFL, and 25 percent said they care “a great deal.” Read full article > >

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The online game’s makers reveal that almost a million people have stopped playing World of Warcraft over the last three months.

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There are now more wireless devices being used in the United States than there are people, and Americans have doubled the amount of Internet data traffic they generate on smartphones, according to the trade group CTIA. The number of mobile devices rose 9 percent in the first six months of 2011, to 327.6 million — more than the 315 million people living in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Wireless network data traffic rose 111 percent, to 341.2 billion megabytes, during the same period. Read full article > >

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The International Red Cross begins a huge distribution of aid to a million people in Somalia famine zones controlled by the Islamist militants.

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A stunning 29 million people tuned in to watch Chuck Lorre kill off Charlie Sheen on CBS’s “Two and a Half Men” Monday night — about 40 percent more people than CBS had been expecting. And, Ashton Kutcher didn’t fail as Sheen’s replacement! It’s a role Kutcher seems best at — playing pretty but pretty naive. The 29 million is a series best for the long-running sitcom. CBS suits erupt in happy dancing. Read full article > >

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An average of 12.5 million people caught Wednesday night’s unveiling of Simon Cowell’s “The X Factor.” That’s only about 700,000 more viewers than watched the unveiling of NBC’s singing competition, “The Voice,” back in April. True, “The Voice” — which featured mentor-judges Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton, Gnarls Barkley’s Cee Lo Green and Maroon 5 ’s Adam Levine — did not launch during the ultra-competitive Premiere Week. Read full article > >

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“Glee” — so over? Fox’s formerly red-hot series lost about one-third of its audience in its season debut, compared with last year’s. Only about 9.2 million people checked out the episode — compared with nearly 13 million who tuned in last fall to see the season’s first episode ASAP so they could tweet, blog and otherwise hyperventilate as it was airing. Read full article > >

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Record crowds turned out Monday night to watch Charlie Sheen be killed off on one television network and resurrected on another. Nearly 29 million people caught Monday night’s expunging of Sheen from the CBS sitcom “Two and a Half Men.” That’s the long-running show’s largest audience — ever. It’s also the biggest season-debut audience for any scripted program on television since 2005. Read full article > >

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Nearly 28 million people caught the expunging of Charlie Sheen from CBS sitcom “Two and a Half Men” Monday night. That’s the long-running sitcom’s largest audience — ever. The episode — in which Sheen’s Charlie Harper is described as having been killed when he slipped on a platform at a Metro in Paris, fell in front of an oncoming train and his body exploded like a meat balloon — also clocked its biggest ever audience among viewers advertisers pay a premium to reach – 18-49 year olds. Read full article > >

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More than 4.2 million people have security clearances for access to classified information, a number that vastly outstrips previous estimates and nearly rivals the population of metropolitan Washington. The number was disclosed in a new report that was mandated by Congress and marks the first time that the government has produced a detailed accounting of the clearances issued to federal, military and contract employees. Read full article > >

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How many security clearances have been issued? Nearly enough for everyone in the Washington area

Against a rousing football game on NBC, Fox’s broadcast of the Primetime Emmy Awards attracted an average of only 12.5 million people — the trophy show’s smallest audience since its famously disastrous 2008 broadcast on ABC. Last year’s Emmy show bagged about 1 million more viewers than Sunday’s, according to early reports (final national stats won’t be in until Tuesday morning). Read full article > >

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It will be of little solace as you sit in the post-Labor Day traffic morass this week that annually overwhelms Washington, but drivers in Mexico City, Beijing and New Delhi think they’ve got it far worse. Of course, all of those cities have upward of 12 million people, and none is blessed with roads as magnificent as the Capital Beltway, Interstate 270 or Interstate 66 to help them along. They’re among 11 foreign cities all judged to have worse traffic congestion than Los Angeles, the perennial winner of the worst-traffic award in national rankings in which Washington usually finishes second. Read full article > >

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District steers clear of global traffic traumas

African leaders raise more than $350m in aid for 12 million people facing starvation in the Horn of Africa’s worst drought in decades.

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