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TMZ’s April Fools Photo Contest!

Filed under: Photo Galleries Are your practical jokes too funny to forget? Email in your best prank pics for our April Fools Photo Contest and your gag could land you a $250 check and some secret stuff from TMZ! … Permalink

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Sandra Bullock Sticks to the Script

Filed under: Sandra Bullock , Jesse James There’s a joke in Hollywood about an agent who came to an actor’s house to relay some tragic news … and the punchline is, “Your agent came to your house?!”A woman clutching what looks like a couple of scripts from Creative Artists Agency — CAA — … Permalink

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Sandra Bullock Sticks to the Script

Are Hollywood remakes of foreign classics ever a good idea?

Let the Right One In was one of the greatest films of 2008. It's being remade by Hollywood and looks like a bad idea

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Are Hollywood remakes of foreign classics ever a good idea?

E.P.A. announces strict new health standards for smog

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a stricter new standard for smog-causing pollutants on Thursday that, if adopted, will impose large costs on industry and local governments but will also bring substantial health benefits to millions of Americans. The proposed standard would replace one set by the Bush administration in March 2008, which has been challenged in court by environmental advocates as too weak to adequately protect human health and the environment

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Little Kardashian Sis Joins the Workforce

If you’re a Kardashian, you gotta work. Kendall Jenner, 14, just recently signed on to Wilhelmina Modeling Agency as a teen model and she already has a Forever 21…

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Little Kardashian Sis Joins the Workforce

Why (most) women like to shop

How we buy jeans may depend on our gender, according to research that examines shopping behavior through an evolutionary lens. Our ancestors didn't shop for holiday gifts, but the way we buy may owe credit to thousands of years of evolution. In a new study, researchers propose that our mall-visiting behaviors harken back to the days when men hunted and women foraged

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Why (most) women like to shop

Gun-friendly laws sweep South, West

It's been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars. A change in leadership at the state Capitol helped open the doors to the gun-related bills and put Tennessee at the forefront of a largely unnoticed trend: In much of the country, it is getting easier to carry guns

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CIA cuts ties with Blackwater

The Central Intelligence Agency has terminated a contract with the security company formerly called Blackwater Worldwide that allowed the company to load bombs on C.I.A. drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan, intelligence officials said Friday.

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CIA cuts ties with Blackwater

OMFG: They’ve made real Lightsabers (kinda)

An upcoming television show explains why real life lightsabers are a physical impossibility, before building the next best thing. It's like Mythbusters but, surprisingly, made with even more awesome.

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Salahis may face charges for crashing State dinner

WASHINGTON — President Obama and his wife, Michelle, had a face-to-face encounter with the couple who sneaked into a state dinner at the White House this week, White House officials acknowledged on Friday. The revelation underscored the seriousness of the security breach and prompted an abject apology from the Secret Service. A White House spokesman said that the couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi of Virginia, met and shook hands with the president and the first lady in the receiving line in the Blue Room, as the Obamas greeted each of their 400 invited guests Tuesday night before moving to a tent on the South Lawn for dinner

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Salahis may face charges for crashing State dinner