Details of Keith Olbermann’s abrupt exit from MSNBC—as well as what’s in store for him now—are trickling out. The latest: Olbermann’s exit package was “well in excess” of $7 million, sources tell TMZ . The deal includes a clause that benches Olbermann for a while—at least when it…
Continue reading …New England has been hit with a blast of winter cold from Canada so severe that at least two people have died, including one woman whose frozen body was found in a driveway in Connecticut, the AP reports. She apparently fell Saturday night and froze while temperatures were near zero;…
Continue reading …Today is the day Oprah Winfrey reveals her big family secret . And is it any surprise that the talk show queen’s unauthorized biographer , Kitty Kelley, thinks she knows what it is? The “news that literally shook me to my core,” as Oprah called it, is that she has a half-sister,…
Continue reading …After deciding to close 491 post offices last year, the struggling US Postal Service will add as many as 2,000 additional branches to that tally beginning in March. Another 16,000 unprofitable ones will also be reviewed, as the USPS pushes Congress to allow them to close the worst…
Continue reading …Taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in fraud lawsuits since the government took over the companies in 2008. The closely guarded cost was released last week after Rep. Randy Neugebauer requested the figures last year. Some $132 million of the total went to…
Continue reading …The intern who rushed to help Gabrielle Giffords during the Arizona shooting is getting quite the 21st birthday present: He’ll be sitting with Michelle Obama during tomorrow’s State of the Union address, which happens to fall on his birthday. Daniel Hernandez Jr., will be joined by his father, reports ABC…
Continue reading …Police are investigating reports that children undressed and engaged in oral sex in a second grade classroom in Oakland, Calif., ABC News reports. The school district calls the allegations “unthinkable,” but is investigating “aggressively,” and admits that evidence “suggests that the reports have merit.” A girl who reported the incident…
Continue reading …A troubled mother may have shot to death her three children and herself after disturbing internet postings about her marital troubles, according to investigators. The bodies of Katelynn Bennett, 30, and her two daughters and son, ages 4 to 14, were found in their partially burned Indiana home, reports CNN…
Continue reading …A commission created by the Israeli government has cleared the Israeli military and government of any wrongdoing in last year’s raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla of relief supplies that killed 8 Turkish citizens and a Turkish-American. The nearly 300-page report was based on the testimony of Israeli government and military…
Continue reading …The new teen-sex barrier busting MTV series Skins might not be child porn , but a mounting list of squeamish advertisers are deserting the popular show. The Wrigley Company has become the third sponsor to ditch the show after GM and Taco Bell, reports the Hollywood Reporter . “Wrigley has decided to…
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