Globes go slumming as 'Millionaire' wins big

Heath Ledger was honored with a Golden Globe, and Kate Winslet came away with two. Yet the Globes otherwise went slumming, with "Slumdog Millionaire" taking top honors and other key prizes going to an underdog and a poster boy for the classic Hollywood comeback.

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Coleman dealt another setback in Minn. race

The Minnesota Supreme Court has rejected Republican Norm Coleman's request to count an additional 650 rejected absentee ballots in the state's U.S. Senate recount.

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Cruise under control: Actor says 'I learned a lesson'

Tom Cruise is still willing to talk about Scientology, but he acknowledged Monday that his 2005 rant about it on TODAY came off as "arrogant." "I'm here to entertain people," the actor told TODAY's Matt Lauer Monday in New York. "That's who I am."

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Obama: Staff not involved in Senate seat deals

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Feds: Governor tried to 'auction' Obama's seat

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich went on a "corruption crime spree" and tried to benefit from his ability to appoint President-elect Barack Obama's Senate replacement, officials said Tuesday.

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O.J. Simpson sentenced to long prison term

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Cash-strapped parents pull kids from day care

The nation's economic troubles play out one family at a time at the New Horizons Learning Center in this struggling city two hours northwest of Chicago.

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Young voter turnout likely sets new record

Young Americans can finally shake off their reputation for civic apathy. Young people appear to have voted in higher numbers than ever before, preliminary reports show.

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Killer who claimed he was too fat is executed

Ohio has executed a 5-foot-7, 267-pound double murderer who argued his obesity made death by lethal injection inhumane.

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Half of mammals are in decline, study finds

One in two mammal species on Earth are in decline and at least one in four are at risk of disappearing, according to a survey released Monday.

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Why not arrest CEOs behind the money mess?

The government's $700 billion plan to rescue the creaking financial system has prompted readers to ask, why can't we just arrest the CEOs responsible for this mess?

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Bush: 'Painful and lasting' economic damage

President Bush warned Tuesday that failing to pass a financial rescue plan would bring severe consequences to the U.S. economy.

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House votes down massive bailout measure

The House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue package, ignoring urgent pleas from President Bush and bipartisan congressional leaders to quickly bail out the staggering financial industry.

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TV anchor who resembles Palin gets 'hate mail'

A television news anchor in Maine who looks a lot like Sarah Palin says she's been getting "hate mail and nasty phone calls."

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The Nooz: Calling all cars - duck on the loose

A weekly roundup of odd news stories as reported by NBC's local affiliates across the nation:? Washington police are on the lookout for a 10-foot inflatable duck, flies take over a S.C. town, and more.

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Prosecutor: Actor killed cat in jealous rage

A trial has begun in the case of a baseball player-turned-actor accused of brutally killing a cat in a jealous rage after complaining that his ex-girlfriend cared more for the feline than she did for him.

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Politician quits over underwear 'dirty dance'

The police minister in Australia's most populous state quit Thursday over reports he "dirty danced" in underwear over the chest of a female colleague in a drunken late-night office party.

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Vote: Was Sarah Palin's speech effective?

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Lieberman eclipses Bush at GOP convention

Analysis: The bizarre nature of the second night of the Republican convention can be summed up this way: a partial eclipse of the president - by one of the Democrats he beat in 2000, Sen. Joe Lieberman.

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Israeli ex-agent: We allowed Nazi doc to escape

The team that kidnapped Nazi mastermind Adolph Eichmann in 1960 knowingly let another notorious war criminal - Josef Mengele - get away, according to a former Israeli Mossad agent.

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U.S. man dies in Mexico jail; police investigated

Six Mexican officers have been placed under house arrest on suspicion of homicide after an American man died while in police custody in the resort city of San Jose del Cabo, a prosecutor said Monday.

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Warrants: Carson Kidnapped, Then Shot Multiple Times

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