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WATCH: LeBron Shocked By Post-Game Cartwheels
Miami Heat super star LeBron James was caught off guard after his team scored a win over the Phoenix Suns on Monday night. His teammate Dwyane Wade was doing cartwheels on camera after the game. Check out the awesomeness above in the video from ESPN.
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WATCH: Syracuse Star Takes One For The Team After Insane, One-Handed Slam Dunk
Syracuse forward C. J. Fair took one for the team on Monday night. The basketball star, who is in his senior year, suffered a bloody cheek after an epic slam dunk. Check out what went down in the video above from ESPN.
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CNN, You Are Still Pretty Terrible
Instead, you followed a path that led, perhaps inevitably, in the direction of your embarrassing performance in Boston, covering the Marathon bombings and the subsequent manhunt for the suspects. This was the sort of event that CNN is built for -- even at your lowest points over the past few years, critics have had to concede that Brian Stelter was spot-on in his assessment that “people tune in to CNN the same way they hurry to a hospital when they think they are having a heart attack.” And the good news is that your marathon-bombing coverage earned your network a healthy spike in the ratings, as people flocked in droves to watch you report on the goings-on in Boston. A year ago, we imagined that the best possible thing that could happen would be for everyone to come to work at CNN one day only to “find that all of the people who have been making these decisions were no longer there.” In our imagining, that would allow the people at CNN who know the nuts and bolts of newsgathering, and their simple skill sets, free reign to execute the daily work of a cable news channel without having all the so-called “visionaries” sitting around, "ideating" all sorts of nonsense, and drecking it up.
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7 Reminders That Michele Bachmann Is Bananas
For Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), it sure has been a wild ride. Early Wednesday morning, the Tea Party favorite emailed out a surprise announcement, telling her supporters that she would not run for a fifth term in Congress. Bachmann will leave behind a controversial legacy, likely to be primarily defined by her passionate views on divisive social issues.
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WATCH: Sandy Hook Chorus, Jennifer Hudson Sing 'America The Beautiful' At Super Bowl
Prior to kickoff at this year's Super Bowl, the Sandy Hook Elementary School chorus sang "America the Beautiful" on the field. Jennifer Hudson joined the students from Newtown, Conn. ahead of the game between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers in New Orleans.
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GOP Lawmaker Proposes Controversial Anti-Abortion Measure
Pregnant women in the Crossroads seeking an abortion may encounter stricter guidelines from their doctors if a proposed bill is passed in the Texas Legislature. Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, plans to introduce legislation that would require what some call more rigid protocols for physicians administering abortion-inducing drugs, such as mifepristone, known formerly as RU-486, to pregnant women. Patrick's SB 97 would require, among other stipulations, that physicians be required to personally administer all doses of the medication to the pregnant women, even if they occur on multiple days.
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F-Bomb Escalates Heated Situation
The House speaker's four-letter blast at the Senate majority leader is the latest ugly twist in the nasty back-and-forth between warring Washington pols. Lloyd Grove on the decline of Capitol Hill civility.
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GOP Leaders Split On Fiscal Cliff Deal
Republican leaders in the House of Representatives split over the "fiscal cliff" deal that Congress passed on New Year's Day. While House Speaker John Boehner supported the measure, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy voted against the legislation. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the GOP's former vice presidential nominee, backed the deal. According to BuzzFeed, Ryan was expected to cast a vote against the measure, but at the last minute changed his mind.
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New Jersey Lawmakers Face Budgetary Pain
New Jersey lawmakers expect to hear more uncomfortable talk about the state's finances as they gather in the new year. The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee is to meet Thursday to discuss lagging revenues and the possibility of midyear budget cuts. The budget looked wobbly before Hurricane Sandy hit: Revenue projections were already trailing by $264 million.
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Renditions Continue Despite Widespread Condemnation
The three European men with Somali roots were arrested on a murky pretext in August as they passed through the small African country of Djibouti. But the reason soon became clear when they were visited in their jail cells by a succession of American interrogators.
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GOP Gov Quietly Certifies Revised Abortion Clinic Regulations
Gov. Bob McDonnell has certified health regulations that impose strict hospital construction standards on Virginia abortion clinics -- triggering the next step in a multitiered approval process that could make the revised rules permanent by this summer. Unlike the public relations ballyhoo that accompanies many executive actions, McDonnell, an anti-abortion Republican, certified the regulations and had them posted to the Virginia Town Hall website without a public announcement on the Friday between the Christmas and New Year's holidays. The signoff comes more than three months after the rules were adopted in September by the state Board of Health at a contentious meeting during which abortion-rights advocates claimed board members were being intimidated into changing their decision in June to grandfather existing clinics from the building requirements.
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WATCH: Obama Reflects On High And Low Points
President Barack Obama reflected on his high points and low points in an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters published online on Wednesday. "You've talked about sitting with the girls at night, and talking about the rose and the thorn. Can you think of what the rose was and what the thorn was?"
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NASA Caught In Crossfire Of Congressional Conflict
If the "fiscal cliff" isn't averted by Congress by January, triggering $109 billion in automatic spending cuts for the next 10 years, NASA Langley Research Center would be among the agencies facing serious job losses, according to a new study by the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA). The AIA states that an 8.2 percent sequestration cut mandated under the Budget Control Act of 2011 would eliminate 713 contract jobs at Langley. NASA Langley referred comment on the matter to its Washington headquarters.
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Remains Of U.S. Airman From '46 Crash Identified, To Be Laid To Rest
On Nov. 1, 1946, a B-17 Flying Fortress on a flight from Naples to an airfield outside London slammed into the Mont Blanc mountain range with such force that the wreckage and remains of its eight airmen were scattered over a wide area on both sides of the Italian-French border. Eight months later, the mountain known as the Aiguilles des Glaciers started to give up the wreckage and dead in a process that continued for more than three decades. The body parts were interred at Arlington National Cemetery under a tombstone bearing the names of all those lost.
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Tea Party Turns To Fringe Issues
The Tea Party might not be over, but it is increasingly clear that the election last month significantly weakened the once-surging movement, which nearly captured control of the Republican Party through a potent combination of populism and fury.
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GOP Senator Said He Abstains From Alcohol Prior To DUI Arrest
Mike Crapo, the Republican senator from Idaho who was arrested on Sunday morning for driving under the influence, once said he abstains from alcohol. Crapo's arrest early Sunday in a Washington, D.C., suburb on suspicion of drunken driving suggests a private life that departed from his public persona as a teetotaling member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. About a quarter of Idaho's population subscribes to the Mormon faith, which discourages members from using alcohol, as well as coffee, tea and tobacco.
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Norquist Levels Attack Against Obama
President Barack Obama has “not been negotiating” in fiscal cliff talks, anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist charged on Monday.
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Ron Paul Slams NRA Plan Recommending Armed Officers In Schools
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) came out against the National Rifle Association's recommendation for armed officers in all schools in the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. "While I certainly agree that more guns equals less crime and that private gun ownership prevents many shootings, I don't agree that conservatives and libertarians should view government legislation, especially at the federal level, as the solution to violence," Paul wrote in a statement posted on his website.
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How DeMint Rocked Washington Like An Earthquake
For his first eight years in Washington, Jim DeMint was like most members of Congress – relatively quiet, fairly innocuous and pretty much unknown outside his state.
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Walker Appointee Sentenced For Theft
A former associate of Gov. Scott Walker convicted of embezzling money from a veterans' group has been sentenced to two years in prison. A jury found Kevin Kavanaugh guilty of theft in October. Prosecutors say Kavanaugh stole more than $51,000 intended to help veterans and their families.