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Aide: John Edwards Wanted to Fake Paternity Test

This morning, former presidential candidate John Edwards finally admitted that he fathered a love child during an affair with his mistress, Rielle Hunter. After years of denials, he admitted today that he is the father of the almost two-year-old girl. “I am Quinn’s father,” John said in an obvious statement.

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The Snoop Dogg/Charles Barkley Black Off

In the interest of staying Late Night neutral, please allow me to update you on the haps at Lopez Tonight , where Snoop and Sir Charles submitted to DNA tests in order to determine who's “Blacker.” Results below! (via Videogum.) Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

Ethical eating – plants want to live, too

“Before we cede the entire moral penthouse to “committed vegetarians” and “strong ethical vegans,” we might consider that plants no more aspire to being stir-fried in a wok than a hog aspires to being peppercorn-studded in my Christmas clay pot.

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Detroit hits 50% unemployment rate

The corporate media does it's best to play down unemployment by quoting diluted national figures that don't focus on the trouble spots like Detroit, and don't count those who aren't on unemployment, or are underemployed. But this is the reality of America in 2010.

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Detroit hits 50% unemployment rate

Scientists crack ‘entire genetic code’ of cancer

Scientists have unlocked the entire genetic code of two of the most common cancers – skin and lung – a move they say could revolutionise cancer care. Not only will the cancer maps pave the way for blood tests to spot tumours far earlier, they will also yield new drug targets, say the Wellcome Trust team. Scientists around the globe are now working to catalogue all the genes that go wrong in many types of human cancer.

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Jessica Alba Is Sooo Euro

Jessica Alba was stunned when a DNA test showed she was mostly of European descent. “Really?

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Jessica Alba Is Sooo Euro

Scientists create bacteria that lights up around landmines

A stunning 87 countries around the world are still littered with undetonated landmines, and their impact is devastating. Tens of thousands of people are killed or injured by mines every year, and they pose a grave threat to ecosystems and wildlife. But an unexpected solution may be on the way–scientists have developed a special kind of bacteria that actually begins to glow in the presence of landmines.

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Project Runway: RUNWAY RUNDOWN with Chris March – Finale Part 1

Chris March spares no one’s feelings in his take of this week’s Project Runway.

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Project Runway: RUNWAY RUNDOWN with Chris March – Finale Part 1

Lopez Tonight: Larry David takes DNA test

Larry David learns his true heritage on LOPEZ TONIGHT

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Lopez Tonight: Larry David takes DNA test

Cornell Business School Email Scandal: Employees Having Affair Accidentally BCC Entire School

Who among us hasn’t had a regrettable email incident? Sending your lawyer something meant for your friend because their names are similar, or replying to all when you meant to reply to one person bashing someone else on the email, for example

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Cornell Business School Email Scandal: Employees Having Affair Accidentally BCC Entire School