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The newspaper owned by the family who owns the sports media outlet that eventually will employ Tom Brady continues to break significant news about Brady’s personal life. Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post reports that Brady and his wife, Gisele Bundchen, have hired divorce lawyers. The Post previously reported that marital discord caused Brady’s 11-day training-camp hiatus. CNN reported last month that Brady and Bundchen are “living separately.”

US actor Alec Baldwin said he does not believe anyone will be criminally charged over the fatal shooting on the set of Western film "Rust," telling CNN he has hired a private investigator to assess culpability for the tragedy....While insisting he does not want to "condemn" Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the film set's armorer and props assistant, Baldwin pointed the finger of blame at her and assistant director Dave Halls, who handed him the gun moments before the shooting...."... I want everybody to know that those are the two people that are responsible for what happened."

WASHINGTON — Dr. Deborah Birx has announced she plans to retire after being outed on Sunday for not following her own holiday travel guidance, calling the experience “overwhelming.” In an interview with Newsy, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator said she would help the incoming Biden administration but then planned to head for the exits. “I want the Biden administration to be successful,” Birx said, noting that she has worked in the federal government since the Regan administration in 1980. “I will be helpful in any role that people think I can be helpful in and then I will...

LONDON – British police say they are examining newly received information relating to the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, and that officers are assessing the information's "relevance and credibility." Scotland Yard declined to provide details about the information, only saying Saturday in a statement that the assessment will be carried out by officers from its specialist crime and operations unit. The force stressed that it was not reopening the investigation into the 1997 deaths of Diana and Fayed, who were killed in a car crash in Paris. Sky News reported that an unnamed source said the new information...

Brits are among the ugliest people in the world... according to an exclusive website which only allows 'beautiful' people to join. Less than one in eight UK men (12 per cent) and just three in 20 women (15 per cent) who have applied to BeautifulPeople.com have been accepted as members. Existing members of the website rate how attractive potential members are over a 48-hour provisional period, when applicants upload a recent photograph and a short personal profile. They are rated by members of the opposite sex, who have four options to describe how attractive they think the hopeful is -...

(CBS) MALIBU Celebrities and coastal residents held a protest in Malibu against a plan to build a massive, floating liquefied natural gas terminal off the coast of Malibu and Oxnard. Actor Pierce Brosnan and big wave surfer Laird Hamilton hosted the "Paddle Out Protest" at Surfrider Beach, near Malibu Pier in an effort to stop the BHP Billiton LNG terminal. Opponents claim storing liquefied natural gas poses a danger since it's highly flammable and explosive. The terminal would also draw huge tankers to the site from foreign countries several times per week and has the potential for significant and irreversible...

Former James Bond actor Pierce Brosnan and other celebrities gathered Sunday to protest a natural gas facility proposed for a site 14 miles off the Malibu coast. "We have to use our voices and band together and stop this," said Oscar winner Halle Berry. The gathering _ also attended by Cindy Crawford, Jane Seymour, Dick Van Dyke and Tea Leoni _ was intended to raise awareness about how the energy industry has invested billions to liquefy and ship natural gas across oceans. There are five facilities proposed for California, with three along the Southern California coastline. One of the world's...

For the burgs: A liberal checklist By Howie Carr Boston Herald Columnist Sunday, June 4, 2006 It used to be that there were only a handful of People’s Republics among the Commonwealth’s 351 cities and towns. You had Cambridge, Amherst, Lincoln, Brookline and a couple of others. These are the la-de-da burgs that erect walls and speed bumps at the town line to keep out the city riffraff who make up that wonderful diversity the suburban swells claim to celebrate. Only last week Brookline Town Meeting called for the impeachment of President Bush. The problem is that the Brookline Syndrome...

The Morning Paper – July 7,2005 Oh-oh-oh ! The Beautiful People are absolutely DEVASTATED !! It appears those bounders at the Olympic Committee have voted against making New York City the site of the 2012 Olympics. Binkey and Muffy had SO counted on Celebrity Box Seats. Howard had counted on the commissions he would have earned setting up the financing. (Priscilla had counted on the extra alimony she would have been able to gouge out of Howard.) This is just…..TRAGIC !! Mayor Bloomberg- a whiny little man who could buy and sell most of the Beautiful People-had counted on BECOMING...

I have tried to reason politely with you John Kerry voters, but you just don't seem to take the hint. So let me put it a different way: GET THE DAMN KERRY BUMPER STICKERS OFF YOUR CARS!! YOU LOST!! IT'S OVER!!! Let's have some ``closure'' here. Moveon.org. Get over it. What part of ``four million vote deficit'' do you not understand? It doesn't matter what Keith Olbermann thinks, you lost Ohio. Even Michael Moore conceded months ago. I attempted to discuss this with you Birkenstock-wearing, ACLU-card-carrying, NPR-listening goateed sore losers six weeks after the election. But if anything, I see...

If Democrats intend to compete for support in "fly-over country," generating fresh appeal to hardworking, religiously committed red-state voters who shop at Wal-Mart without guilt, they must escape their identification as the party of Beverly Hills dilettantes and self-righteous celebrities. This means learning to live without Hollywood money, and focusing less obsessive attention on fighting Ralph Nader (or other radical leaders) for a handful of high-profile endorsements on the marginal left.

<p>Some of the world's fastest and most exotic cars tore out of San Francisco on Thursday night for the start of a mad cross-country caper that's as much about hard driving as hedonistic partying.</p> <p>But the West Coast debut of the Gumball Rally, a notorious European road race marked by eye-popping speeding tickets, five-digit bar bills and the champagne-soaked antics of the effortlessly wealthy, resulted almost immediately in a police crackdown.</p>