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Nazis adopt a highway in Colorado

The chapter of the National Socialist Movement in Colorado, a white supremacist group, will be heading out on the roads to pick up litter in the Mile High State. Calling itself America's Nazi Party, the organization is participating in an Adopt-A-Highway program and will be responsible for picking up trash along a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) stretch of highway in a suburb north of Denver. A sign is already up in the area with the group's name on it.

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Tim Tebow Super Bowl Ad Rankles Pro-Choice Advocates

On the field, University of Florida senior Tim Tebow is stirring up a great deal of controversy: Will he succeed in the NFL as a quarterback? Will he be drafted in the first round?

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Tim Tebow Super Bowl Commercial Rankles Pro-Choice Advocates

On the field, University of Florida senior Tim Tebow is stirring up a great deal of controversy: Will he succeed in the NFL as a quarterback?

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Tim Tebow Super Bowl Commercial Rankles Pro-Choice Advocates

Miley Cyrus Posts Suicide Prevention PSA

Not even we can mock Miley Cyrus for the following video.

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Brittany Murphy Didn’t Die From Drug Use, Mother And Husband Insist

‘She was just high on life, and people see that as something else,’ Sharon Murphy tells Associated Press. By Eric Ditzian Brittany Murphy Photo: John Shearer/ Getty Images Wednesday (January 20) marks the one-month anniversary of the death of Brittany Murphy at the age of 32, and with toxicology tests still being conducted, a determination as to her cause of death has not yet been made.

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Haiti Earthquake-Relief Donations: What Does Your Money Buy?

Red Cross, UNICEF break down where contributions can go. By Gil Kaufman A Haitian boy washes himself in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday Photo: Chris Hondros/ Getty Images Since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti last Tuesday, more than $200 million has been raised via text, phone calls and mail by the dozens of worldwide relief organizations that rushed in to help the devastated Caribbean island nation. (Head here to learn what you can do to help the people of Haiti.) American Red Cross spokesperson Eric Porterfield, those donations are turned into vitally needed resources for the more than 3 million people displaced by the quake, as of Sunday, said the organization had collected pledges of $22 million through a program where cell phone users can donate $10 by texting “90999.” “I need a better word than ‘unprecedented’ or ‘amazing’ to describe what’s happened with the text-message program,” organization spokesperson Roger Lowe told The New York Times .

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Interview: Doctors Without Borders amputating limbs on the streets

Port-au-Prince, Haiti – Doctors helping survivors of the earthquake in Haiti have turned to conducting surgeries in the streets of Port-au-Prince, the head of Doctors Without Borders in Haiti told the German Press Agency dpa. The international organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) has long been active in Haiti, operating three hospitals in Haitian capital Port-au-Prince alone. However, the hospitals all suffered such severe damages in Tuesday's devastating quake that they can no longer be used.

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Interview: Doctors Without Borders amputating limbs on the streets

Hubris in Haiti: Wyclef Jean’s History of Overselling Yele’s Ability to Help

Wyclef Jean ‘s aspirations for his foundation, Yele Haiti , to be more than just a celebrity vanity project have long been outstripped by realities on the ground, people who’ve worked in Haiti for the organization tell Gawker. People who have worked for Yele Haiti in the past are speaking up to express concern that Jean’s celebrity is drawing urgently needed donations away from established NGOs and to Yele, which they say is ill-equipped to deliver urgently needed disaster relief. The people who spoke to Gawker say they are motivated by a fear that Jean’s celebrity and very real desire to help his homeland are diverting scarce resources from more capable and transparent organizations

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Wyclef Jean: My Charity Has Made ‘Mistakes’

Wyclef Jean offered a teary defense of his charity work with Yele Haiti in a press conference just now, admitting that he made some mistakes but denying that he profited from the charitable donations he directed toward his business interests. Jean also called for a “mass exodus” from Port-au-Prince, which has become a “morgue”: In 48 hours, the U.S. Army could probably set up 100,000 tents

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Wyclef Jean Joins George Clooney To Lead MTV’s ‘Hope For Haiti’ Telethon

Two-hour global telethon will air Friday, January 22. By Eric Ditzian Wyclef Jean Photo: Michelly Rall/ Getty Images Wyclef Jean will join George Clooney and CNN’s Anderson Cooper in hosting MTV Networks’ “Hope for Haiti,” the global telethon to air commercial-free across ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, the CW, HBO, MTV, VH1 and CMT on Friday, January 22, 2010 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT.

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