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Haitian Earthquake Relief Bolstered By New York Radio Station

‘We have to step up and give them a hand,’ Jeffrey Joseph from Radyo Pa Nou says. By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Sway Calloway Vice president and general manager of radio station Radyo Pa Nou Jeffrey Joseph Photo: MTV News Celebrity outreach to Haiti may be dominating the headlines , but everyday heroes truly do exist in the wake of the calamity caused by the earthquake that crippled the country.

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Report From Haiti: Survivors Struggle, Bodies Fill The Streets

‘Too many people died, and you can smell it in the air,’ one survivor says. By Erik Parker 16-year-old Jean McKenzie wears a mask to block the smell of dead bodies Photo: Eric Peterson Erik Parker is a freelance journalist who was in Haiti when the earthquake struck on Tuesday. You can read his tweets and view his photos at Twitter.com/TheParkerReport.

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Obama to announce bailout fee on banks

President to unveil levy on banks in bid to claw back some of the $700bn injected into the sector during financial crisis.

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Conan O’Brien May Jump Ship, Jerry Seinfeld Applauds Leno Decision

O’Brien reportedly in talks with other networks following announcement that NBC may move Jay Leno back into his former time slot.

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Lil Wayne Talks ESPN Shout-Out In Exclusive ‘Nino Brown Story, Pt. 2’ Preview

DVD sequel offers an up close and personal look at Weezy, in Mixtape Daily. By Shaheem Reid Lil Wayne Photo: MTV News The Unveiling: Lil Wayne ‘s ‘The Nino Brown Story, Pt.

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Finally, an Obama Musical that Gives Sarah Palin a Decent Set of Go-Go Dancers

After London’s smallish Obama on My Mind and Kenya’s amateurish Obama: The Musical , Germany has finally created a true Barack Obama musical extravaganza, HOPE: Einer Neuen Generation . Palin has skanky back-up dancers and Reverend Wright sings angry gospel. There are few international phenomena more fascinating to the American eye than foreign cultures’ interpretations of us

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Sword Canes: The Next Great Airport Security Challenge

Is airport security just a massive prank played on us by our reptilian overlords? The biggest threats to America’s airports recently: underpants bombs , wrong-way smoochers and bottles of honey . And now: sword canes

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Rockonomics: The California-Prep Style Rebranding of Vampire Weekend

A found-everywhere band of the last two years, Brooklyn-bred Vampire Weekend ‘s back with a new album, and new press lines to go with it: they’ve transitioned from their “prep-chic” Ivy League linage image into ostensibly different “California”-style brand identification. This all naturally culminates in the following Wall Street Journal headline: Vampire Weekend Goes from Columbia to California on Its New Album, “Contra” The nice thing about a band like Vampire Weekend is that they make the duties of a mostly-stupid music press’ job really, really easy, by giving them easy narratives to fill in

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Two Blackwater guards arrested by FBI on murder charges

Two former Blackwater operatives were arrested by US federal agents on murder charges, stemming from their alleged involvement in the shooting deaths of two Afghan civilians in Kabul in May. They have been identified as Justin Cannon, 27, of Corpus Christi, Texas, and Christopher Drotleff, 29, of Virginia Beach, Va. They have been charged with “crimes including second-degree murder, attempted murder and firearms offenses while working as contractors for the U.S.

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Jake Pavelka Speaks on Rozlyn Papa Scandal

Earlier this week, an inside source dropped some Bachelor bombshells. In addition to naming the alleged winner this season on the reality show, The Bachelor spoilers we came across revealed the details behind the season’s big scandal. Rumors suggested that model Rozlyn Papa had an inappropriate relationship with a producer on the program and will be sacked on Monday’s episode as a result.

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