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The president says he doesn’t much pay attention to Wall Street. Good thing, because the feeling seems to be mutual: it sells every day he’s selling. New stimulus? Stocks down. New financial rescue? Stocks down. New budget? Stocks down. More than 1,000 points since he became president, more than 2,000 …

A massive tunnel system running from Gaza to the Egyptian border has long served Palestinians as a supply line for everything from livestock and construction materials to stocks of medicine and smuggled electronics equipment. But now, as war rages in the area, the tunnels have become the main route for …

Hulk’s Ex-Wife Linda Causes Chaos at Sundance | More D-Listers Descend Upon Sundance | Whitney Port’s Beau Booted for Mariah Hulk’s Ex-Wife Linda Causes Chaos at Robert Redford’s Film Festival “Un-American” Has the Sundance Film Festival lost its prestige? Is it the economy, inauguration or over commercialization of Robert Redford’s …

With world famous beauty, a crown on her head and a 1994 Junior Olympic silver medal under her belt, it would seem that Miss USA Crystle Stewart has led quite the charmed life. But the 27-year-old Texan has had her share of struggles – most notably a terrifying breast cancer …

The spectacle of AIG executives receiving millions in bonus money may not be a pretty sight, but the reaction to it in Congress has not exactly been a thing of beauty either. Iowa Republican Senator Grassley first suggested the bonus recipients should kill themselves, later saying he meant that only …

Talk about a surprise candy center. An Atlanta woman has a bone to pick with the candy company Mars after she took a bite into her peanut M&M and says she discovered what a local biologist says is a vertebra from a small mammal. J. Paulette Potts, who works for …

First there were rumors that Demerol mixed with a cocktail of prescription drugs led to the death of Michael Jackson. Then, six days after his untimely demise, another powerful drug was linked to the singer’s death — Propofol. A nurse who worked for Jackson said he was begging for the …

So those wacky Koreans are at it again. No, I’m not referring to the communists up north with their 1940’s-chic H-Bombs and misguided missiles, but the southern capitalists at Hyundai and the relentless drive they have to steal more and more of the American market away from our now partially …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: The Reich Stuff Al Gore is comparing the fight against climate change to the struggle against Nazis in World War II. The former vice president told an environmental forum in England that the world lacks the political will to act. Gore encouraged …

Capt. Chelsea “Sully” Sullenberger landed his US Airways plane in the middle of New York’s Hudson River in January without losing a soul in the process, and less than two months later, he landed another whopper: A two-book deal worth $3.2 million. So what’s afloat for the recently-rescued Capt. Richard …