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Leading in many polls by as much as 30 points, the senator was hammered by her Democratic opponents in a debate in Philadelphia last night. The prevailing wisdom is that Hillary does not stand for anything. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JOHN EDWARDS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Senator Clinton says that she believes …

I noticed her this week in Boston — an old friend. Older now and a little more fragile. Walking with not one, but two canes. Tired. She looked very tired. We exchanged pleasantries. Talked about our kids. All seemed like they were growing and doing well — the kind of …

The payload container carrying experiments and the cremated ashes of some 200 dearly departed people — a cargo that includes remains of the beloved “Scotty” of “Star Trek” fame — has been recovered in the New Mexico mountains. “It has been found. It is in good shape,” Eric Knight, co-founder …

Jessica Simpson | The Police | Odds ‘n’ Ends Jessica Simpson Votes for John Mayer The election returns are in and, pausing for a pun, the new “Mayer” of Jessica Simpson‘s world is curly-mopped blues maven John Mayer. At Sony BMG’s lavish and elegant Grammys after-party at the Beverly Hills …

It’s headed for an asteroid. It’s got nuclear weapons. And it doesn’t involve Bruce Willis. NASA scientists have proposed a spacecraft that would use atomic blasts to deflect asteroids on collision courses with Earth. Researchers from the Advanced Concepts Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., presented …

For the past year, [Elvira Arellano] the 32-year old woman has been living inside a Chicago church, as federal authorities were seeking to deport her. Ms. Arellano was already deported once, but snuck back into the country from Mexico, delivered a baby, and used a phony Social Security number to …

I know it still seems like I’m fixated on this Ford funeral stuff, but it got me thinking, still thinking, actually: If you want something really good said about you, die. Now in President Ford‘s case, he had a lot of good things of which to be said. Never mind …

LAS VEGAS – All I can say is that my life is pretty strange. One minute I’m at ultra-glamorous Cipriani interviewing the likes of Tea Leoni and first daughter Barbara Bush at a UNICEF event, the next I’m on a train heading home to my wife and daughter, two cats …

A new study found that chimps performed about as well as college students at mental addition. Experts say this means, for the first time, that nonverbal math skills are not unique to humans. Baloney. Scientific research that says humans are no better at nonverbal thinking than monkeys must be flawed, …

Courtney Love | Beverly Sills | Tommy Lee Jones Courtney Love: The Comeback Begins You may remember that when we last left Courtney Love, she was climbing over the audience at the Bowery Ballroom. It was just a night or two after she’d hit an audience member with a microphone. …